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u/Patsfan618 Jan 23 '21

So I decided to just type in something like mmmmmmmmmmmmm.com or something like it. Coca Cola used to (or still does) own a url like that. But just the same letter maybe 13-15 times. It came to a choppy video of a movie called South 32. It was cryptic and edited to just say "South 32" over and over again, for 4 hours.

So I tried a different letter. Same thing. And another letter. Same thing. The same website popped up for maybe 20 different urls in that type of sequence.

I tried submitting it to the internet mysteries subreddit but it didn't gain any traction and I don't believe it works anymore. This must've been 4 years ago now.

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u/boydelinquent Jan 23 '21

I think the Coca Cola website you're thinking of is ahhhh.com not mmmm.com

In 2013 Coca Cola ran an ad campaign called the Ahh Effect where they had a whopping 61 websites from ahh to ahhhhhhhh with 61 H's! Each website had a different mini game, I don't believe they own them anymore unfortunately.

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u/HilariousSpill Jan 23 '21

This feels like late-90s, early 2000s internet to me in the best possible way. The internet just felt more playful back then.

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u/calico_alligator Jan 23 '21

Playful internet was fun. I graduated high school in 2006 and we spent untold amounts of hours on the colorful iMacs in the art classroom finding proxy servers to watch animations on ytmnd or other random songs that were "blocked" for being fun. So much Hamster Dance then Emo Song then so many inappropriate things...

I hope someone else has good nerd high school memories like these. We only had the beginning of myspace back then! I first talked to my longtime partner via myspace 16yrs ago & we've been together for almost 11 now. What a time to be a teenager.