Virtual Bubblewrap fully realized after 7 years

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In 1996 I started a little page called “Virtual Bubblewrap” as part of my homepage. A friend and I had been trying to come up with the stupidest idea we could for a page… something that just would NOT translate to the medium.

It got hugely popular while my back was turned. I had forgotten it existed for well over two years, and when I installed an access log parser I not only noticed it was there, but noticed that it was getting a LOT more traffic than anything else on my site! So I started paying more attention to it. Over the years I developed new versions… the first version was an extremely clumsy set of frames where each bubble was a frame and it reloaded a “popped” bubble when you clicked it. Next came the javascript version.

Finally earlier this year I registered a domain for it and my baby moved away from home and became its own site. I also broke down and made a very clumsy Flash version of the bubblewrap. It sucked ass, but worked a lot better than the previous incarnations.

Well today… (actually yesterday if you go by the actual date) my friend Thwack and I finally did it. We worked together (ok he did most of it) and came up with a really GOOD Flash solution.

And so…

…after only 7 years waiting…

…I give you…

VIRTUAL BUBBLEWRAP AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE!!!

Virtual Bubblewrap has been publicly endorsed by Pamela Anderson. Several years ago I did start work on a prototype “all boobies” version of it but aborted it because I thought she might take it the wrong way.

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Genius!

Haj

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Nicely done!

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I bow down to you.

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Didja try it in Manic Mode?

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I love this page.

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I did try it in Manic Mode… and squealed giddily upon realizing what it entailed.

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That would do Thickie Holden proud.

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Oh yeah. It’s the sound that it makes when you request a new sheet that really gets me going though.

Haj

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Heh. That’s me in my bubblewrap-jonesing voice :slight_smile:

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Great job, OpalCat! My sister showed me this a couple years ago, and I remember being hooked for a little while back then. Thanks for the link! :smiley:

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Awesome.

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Oh, this is bad! I’ve added it to my favorites, and my friend is really going to love all the time I spend there. :slight_smile:
But even though he can’t understand my addiction he still supplies me when he gets things in bubble wrap at his store.
Funny story is at work I requested a clock since my paperwork is time sensitive and I was more excited about getting the bubble wrap than the clock I waited a week for.
After work I went to my friends work to show him my new treasure and we had another friend up there who was having a real bad night and had been crying before I got there.
I gave her half of my treasure and we spent the next half hour giggling while my friend sat there shaking his head not understanding the new bond she and I shared.

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If you liked that, you’ll LOVE this:
http://www.rathergood.com/crabpalette.html

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Oh that is lovely lol!

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You’ve made my dreams come true…

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Very cool Opal. Thanks!

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You oughter nominate this one for Weird Earl, OpalCat!

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http://www.miniclip.com/bubblepop.htm

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I like Opal’s a lot better than that one, Dragon Phoenix.

Great job, sweetie.