I didn't want a website! All the hits just BALLOONED. Say three-wick candles are popular (an actual Abatis item). It doesn't seem like much, but it's pivotal. They knew recording a cover was cheaper than paying to sample Roger Miller's Robin Hood tune, and they say that they were able to secure a publishing split by writing some new material for "The Hampsterdance Song" — a few verses, some instrumental sections. It's what makes this whole "Hampsterdance" question difficult. Tony Grace: It really helped us. Robin Hood Theme (c) Disney Motion Pictures.

You'd find a regular internet user in less than half than Canadian households that year. What you're about to read is an oral history of the Hampsterdance, as told by some of the people whose lives were tangled up in its tale. She said, "I don't just want one hamster dance, I want hundreds of them! October '99. CNet called it the internet's largest fad in net history. My take on it was that to do something more, we would have to involve more people. Jeffery Lane (former business partner, Hampton Hampster Productions): Hoo boy. Bill Porfido: [The money was split] between Jeffery Lane, Deidre and her partner. And so I went to the licensing agent and said, "Listen, everybody's driving me crazy. And they were doing promotions on products based on the Hampsterdance. Hado is what we call Hazel's Hampster. What is the Hampsterdance? Everyone was shoving money into the internet with no return.

I did an enormous amount of spec work in creating this thing for the better part of almost half a year. Actually, we're waiting on another clearance from Family Guy, for an upcoming episode. It's so obscure, the project's not even listed on IMDB.

The particulars of how everyone comes together are fuzzier than a hamster's rear end.

I got my counsel involved. David Cassel: "Hampster Party." Fans of the site created variations on the original theme, using politicians such as Dan Quayle and Cynthia McKinney, as well as household objects such as Pez dispensers. For some time the hamsterdance.com and hampsterdance.com domains were owned by humor business Nutty Sites, and LaCarte thus used the domains hamsterdance2.com and hampsterdance2.com. Deidre LaCarte: Besides that first initial amount off that website merchandise, the music that they put up, anything — we have received nothing but $4.36. Who can I involve? And her business is Melanie Anne Designs. Hazel Steenman: But we needed him at the time, and we didn't know that. The Hampsterdance is a paycheque — or at least it is to a few characters in this story. Why don't you buy it from them?" (laughs). (laughs) And people came to say hi and they smiled! This is where we cross into grey areas of matters that are still legalities to me, even to this day, if you catch my drift.

Easy to use, the service — and its contemporaries like Angelfire and Tripod — made it simple for countless people (and their Empire Records fansites) to get online in no time, and by June of 1998, Deidre LaCarte had a Geocities account and was copy/pasting the code that would become the Hampsterdance. (Laughs) It's just a journey, and it was a journey that you could talk about!". Listen to The Hamster Dance Song MP3 song. [5] Soon the site was even featured on bumper stickers and in a television commercial for Internet service provider EarthLink. She found them on the web. [11] A flash animated series was planned by Nelvana, but never made it past the planning process. Her art is the genius that turned these characters into the global phenomenon that they still are. He actually bought the hampsterdance.com, put my site on his, called it his, took all the revenue — because they were doing a lot of advertising on the Hampsterdance, like major amounts. But what, exactly, would they be selling? Still covering tech in the Bay Area, he reported on the Hampsterdance for a variety of outlets while the meme was in its heyday. I don't watch cartoons. I'm taking out what we got in return. (laughs). It first appeared in Disney's Robin Hood. It was OK. Hazel Steenman: Viral wasn't even invented as a word connected to the internet at that point (laughs). Underground and more or less anonymous, The Cuban Boys could be anyone, even the secret side project of Britpop's biggest stars. At the time the page was created, embedding background music in HTML pages was a fairly novel browser feature. I want to be careful here. Everyone has a warm place in their hearts for the Hampsterdance — not just because it was silly and then wildly popular, but because it reminds us of when we were young and when the web was young. People who are young and come up with something like this have emotional attachment, OK. And I always appreciate that, their passion. Tony Grace: We have a little hamster god here we give praises to every day. Deidre LaCarte: So this is all good, we're going to sell this. According to … Rob DeBoer, The Boomtang Boys: We had been sort of go-to dance/remix producers for a few years here in Canada, so the publicist [Jeffery Lane] was well aware of us and he contacted us. I said, "How long am I going to do this?". That's you?!" But it's a website, just the same. Since the first copycat websites popped up, people online had been arguing about who could lay claim to what. It's time for another one. This is so far from classical. Hazel Steenman: We had a kind of a competition between her sister, me and Deidre. And for the people who had any stake in it at the time, arguments over who was responsible for any of that have festered so long that 10 generations of real-life Hamptons could have come and gone by now. (Or songs, really.) David Cassel: I think he's the unsung hero in all this. I" had been on the airwaves since spring of 1999. Follow. At this point in the timeline, a whole new issue is getting twisted. So a gentleman, I can't even remember his name now, down in Chicago — he took the site, copied the whole thing, got hampsterdance.com.

Still, online culture was familiar enough that the local paper, TV news and even Martha Stewart were actually talking about a silly website that was suddenly the best reason to have an email account. It's called Abatis International. We were entrepreneurs, never stuck into one genre of anything. Hampton Hampster, anything done by the Boomtang Boys, is ours. Tony Grace: They sold their website to this guy down in New York.

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