{"id":324,"date":"2003-08-31T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T23:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2003-08-31T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T23:12:53","slug":"net-obsessions-of-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/31\/net-obsessions-of-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Obsessions of Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Rummaging through the recycle bin of Net obsessions<\/p>\n<p>Good news: Net fashionistas have already declared the &#8220;flash mob&#8221; &#8212; in which participants follow instructions given by e-mail and mobile phone to gather, annoy passersby, and disperse &#8212; pass&eacute;. Like a vapid-but-catchy summer anthem (here&#8217;s looking at you, Nelly), a sartorial whim that everyone follows and then rapidly drops (hello, mood ring!), or the desperately annoying catchprase on everyone&#8217;s lips (whassuuuuup indeed), various cybercultural oddities (a.k.a. memes) over the years have made a fleeting impact on Net culture, and sometimes beyond it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/webguide\/internetlife\/2003-08-28-net-fad-history_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/webguide\/internetlife\/2003-08-28-net-fad-history_x.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rummaging through the recycle bin of Net obsessions Good news: Net fashionistas have already declared the &#8220;flash mob&#8221; &#8212; in which participants follow instructions given by e-mail and mobile phone to gather, annoy passersby, and disperse &#8212; pass&eacute;. Like a vapid-but-catchy summer anthem (here&#8217;s looking at you, Nelly), a sartorial whim that everyone follows and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}