Original Hampster Dance circa 1997 (hamsters dancing online)... and peek at the new

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Originally it was created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte for geocities, but grew into a huge internet meme.

This experience provided to you by:
http://lee.org/reading/general/Hampst...

The original song is "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was adapted by Disney in "Robin Hood" 1973 (the cartoon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpaFWJ... (removed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8UF-2...
... here is one with the cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-mByT...
-- The voice for the rooster, Alan-a-Dale, was done by Roger Miller also.

I liked the original, but it can get annoying to some...

check out the new site (celebrating a birthday also):
http://hampsterdance.com/

Here is the new song provided by Hampsterfans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-_mS...

In January 1999, it was featured in an Earthlink Commercial (after the song had already changed slightly): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARybJ7...

Now go and enjoy.

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[SquirtyFruitFish]

Hamster. HAM-STER. THERE IS NO P IN HAMSTER.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

iirc the page was deticated to hampton the hamster of the maker and named so because of that.

[ytp4life1]

13 guinea pig's disliked

[CraniumOnEmpty]

They were just testing the waters

[3189ar]

I will love this forever. It cannot be replaced or substituted.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

cool... I gave a link if you want to download the original and have your love forever on your pc... it's just a few gifs, a wav file, and html.

[TheProlamatariat]

It's like old timey internet music.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

some say hampsterdance com was the first rick-roll site because it annoyed the crap out of people.

[BBandit TheThiefMaster]

you mean stupidity 10:10,11 , a thief steals , a killer kills , and a terrorists destroys , see, they are 3 different things and you fusioned them with no purpose or sense , and the cat...your creator is a cat ....that cat traps you as a viral sticky song , and you know what else is sticky....deadly diseases , a cat that prevents YOU not me from studying and , well, know things . don't treat a cat as a god. even as a joke.

[taketimeout2]

This is what God invented country music for. For Counts.

[yoshi59441]

Nyan 10:10,11 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill and to destroy. Nyan come that they may have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Nyan the good shepard;the good shepard giveth his life for his sheep.

[BBandit TheThiefMaster]

so your god is a bread torso cat that shoots rainbows out of his ass.....sure

[yoshi59441]

TAKE THAT BACK BLASPHEMER I WILL NYAN TILL THE END OF TIME.

[Slimy Weasles]

Oh my gosh, I used to make my dad play this for me all the time when I was a little kid! I love the hamsters! :)

[TdeadMan66]

Welcome to Youtube.

[Irkencat]

sooo nostalgic to me XD I thought this was pretty sweet when I was 8.

I kinda miss when internet was a precious expensive thing.