Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by Gabe 11 Comments

In the future, the internet will be studied on college campuses all across the country. Or at least, more than it is now. There will be classes on LOLz and 4Chan and the Ancient Civilization of iVillage. People will major in Social Networking Studies and Creative Twitter Update Writing. Entire dissertations will be written about Gay Retarded YouTube Commenters and The Rise and Fall of the Xzibit Meme. But few of those subjects of internet scholarship will compare in scope to the study of the mashup. Entire campuses will be devoted to it (entire campuses will not be devoted to it), and thousands of hopeful students will arrive each year hoping to make a name for themselves in the field (OK, that is more likely).

And when that day comes, on the first day of class, the professor will have everyone turn to the first page of their Mashup For Beginners textkindles, and this video will start to play:

For tomorrow, I would like you to read webpages 125,000-239,000,000. Class dismissed.

(Thanks for the tip, Max.)

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Comments (11)
  2. Becca  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    this is even better than Scary Mary (the Mary Poppins trailer FROM HELL)

    internet 101.

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  3. Mcluskyist  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    This was old before it was even posted (gettin’ meta up in here, guys). But I actually like the music so it gets a thumbs up from me.

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  4. Dumbelina  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    I will never ever get tired of this. Take something fun and make it creepy, take something creepy and make it fun (e.g. the infamous Shining mashup), I will watch the hell out of it. Hopefully they will have YouTube in whatever nursing home my ungrateful bastard kids inevitably send me away to.

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  5. Brian the Astronaut  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    Argh – what is that piece of music?!? I love it! I should know this. I went to school for musics.

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  6. That Guy  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    That’s “my ungraytful basterd kids”.

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  7. wi_ngo  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    Penderecki, perhaps? I don’t know… I studied the musics too, but it was a long time ago.

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  8. TroyJMorris  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    Bravo, Gabe. Bravo.

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  9. Trouble Downstream  |   Posted on Apr 15th, 2009

    I for one am terrified. Conrad Bain is a terrifying name.

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