YouTube would not launch for another couple of years, and web browsers had not yet adopted open standards for multimedia. It might be difficult for you to fathom now, but when YTMND launched in 2004, it was one of the earliest websites that allowed users to easily merge visuals and audio and present them to users. The site’s popularity soon led to copycats, and eventually Goldberg created a centralized platform for them,. The site,, featured an infinitely repeating picture of Sean Connery along with WordArt text proclaiming, “YOURE THE MAN NOW DOG.COM.” Audio of Connery reciting the phrase in his Scottish accent (ripped from the film Finding Forrester) played on a loop. YTMND’s origins stem from a gag website set up by creator Max Goldberg in 2001. With little fanfare, YTMND vanished over the weekend trying to visit the site now yields only connection timeouts and database errors. One of the World Wide Web’s most influential platforms has gone dark.
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