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=='''History'''== | =='''History'''== | ||
The website was registered on January 4, 1999 by Steven Lerner, the website used to promote his band of the same name, there is a little bit of information explaining the band Albino Blacksheep exists. In 2000, Steven redesigned the website. This design contained | The website was registered on January 4, 1999 by Steven Lerner, the website used to promote his band of the same name, there is a little bit of information explaining the band Albino Blacksheep exists. In 2000, Steven redesigned the website. This design contained graphical images, and a video stream from his video camera. | ||
Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animations (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The | Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animations (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The game: Musical Lantern can be found here.<ref>albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lantern</ref> in addition, The website also helped the band [[Wikipedia:Tally Hall|Tally Hall]] gained some popularity after posting their music video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY Banana Man]. | ||
On April 1, 2007, | On April 1, 2007, the site has later turned into a sjoke homepage, it was designed to trick people think that the site had been bought by the company: "Google" and turned into "Google Animations". The joke was reinforced by a fake blog stating that "''Albino Blacksheep has been acquired by Google Inc. for roughly $32 million in stock options. The deal was discussed over a casual breakfast in Mountain View, California between the Canadian-born founder of Albino Blacksheep and the Google co-founders and CEO. Plans are underway for Google Inc. to tie its services and software into the former Albino Blacksheep website which will go by the new name [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/archive/aprilfools2007 Google Animation].''" | ||
As of March 2020, the site changed the logo with the same sheep but wearing a face mask. | As of March 2020, the site changed the logo with the same sheep but wearing a face mask. | ||
=='''Etymology'''== | =='''Etymology'''== | ||
According to Steven Lerner, the name is an intentional oxymoron; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. He also points out that "black sheep" can also be interpreted as "outcast" and that the site's title could be interpreted to refer to an albino outcast.<ref>[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/meaning The Meaning] of the title.</ref> | According to Steven Lerner, the name is an intentional oxymoron; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. He also points out that "black sheep" can also be interpreted as "outcast" and that the site's title could be interpreted to refer to an albino outcast.<ref>[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/meaning The Meaning] of the title.</ref> | ||
