Original Hampster Dance from 1997 (hamsters dancing online)

Copyrighted content in this video is © 1997 - 2009 Abatis International, LLC. All Rights Reserved. So, please get their permission before using. They can be found at http://hampsterdance.com

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/Hampsterdance/

The original song is "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was adapted by Disney in "Robin Hood" (the cartoon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpaFWJag0nU

Hampterdance was exploited and turned into the site it is today because of all of us that flooded the site in the 90's. Actually, today's site is interesting, but I still liked the original:
http://www.hampsterdance.com/

No, I didn't record the entire thing. I took a little clip and pasted a bunch of times...

In January 1999, it was featured in an Earthlink Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARybJ77ykfc

Now go light up and enjoy.

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[julian55538]

NO ORIGINAL



[CraniumOnEmpty]

@julian55538 yes, it's the original. I have a link to the code as well (or rather the page with the original code)

[waindrop67]

its sounds really old.:p

[CraniumOnEmpty]

@waindrop67 That's relative... but yeah.

[FriendlyPedoNeighbor]

I have been looking for this song for 2 FUCKING YEARS!

Now I can finally blast it from the speakers in my car in suburban neighborhoods.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

@FriendlyPedoNeighbor lol, just grab it from the link. The sound on this vid is crap.

[AlwaysABunny]

Thumbs uo if u got here because of nyan caxx xD

[NieneJonasHorses]

Hahaaa!! I remember this!!! My grandma and grandpa showed this to me when i was little and i loved it! I couldn't stop watching it! LOL. Thanks for uploading!! I haven't seen this in like 10 years! =D

[CraniumOnEmpty]

@SataiDelenn well, some others are still there. This one morphed into what the site is today. They have a tiny section of what resembles this, but it's just not the same.

[SataiDelenn]

This is so mindlessly mesmerising! lol. I remember back in the day, this made it onto news channels, and practically everyone was talking about it. I would leave this up in the background on my computer while surfing the "world wide web" (as it was known in dinosaur times, lol). I think it drove my family nuts, because after a while, you tune it out and forget it's on (they didn't). Thank you for posting this video! There were others spawned from it, but this is the only one that remains.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

@TehW00terMan little more practice and you could make the X Factor or something.

[CraniumOnEmpty]

@FriendlyPedoNeighbor You can get the original whistle stop song, chop it and speed it up if you want to try get get more quality out of it. Not sure that's what you are looking for, but just blabbing.