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Mahir Cagri (in Turkish Mahir Çağrı) a resident of Izmir, Turkey, became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion and travel, was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one even featured on Fox's MadTV (season 4, episode 20). In 2005 Cnet declared his webpage to be one of the top ten internet memes. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (213x668, 21 KB)Mahir Cagri This work is copyrighted. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (213x668, 21 KB)Mahir Cagri This work is copyrighted. ...
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CELEBRITY is an abstract word stelling from the Latin celebritas, itself from the adjective celeber famous, celebrated. A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ...
1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ...
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The term and concept of meme (pronounced in IPA; from the Greek word μνήμη for memory) first appeared in the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. ...
Mahir claimed in various interviews that his personal webpage was hacked, with additions such as "I like sex" embedded into his webpage. The site was originally hosted on the now defunct XOOM website which offered customers 10mb of space for free, a large amount for the time. XOOM advertised Mahir on their front page during the mania. XOOM was a free web hosting company, similar to GeoCities. ...
Causes Mahir Cagri's website was quickly spread through word of mouth on the internet. The website came at a time when "Internet phenomenon" was a new concept for internet users, media, and the curious public. Novelty pages such as Dancing baby and The Hamster Dance created a precedent of mass viewing for Mahir's page. An Internet phenomenon occurs when something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, but usually for a short duration of time. ...
Dancing Baby was a popular video file of an animated, 3D rendered baby dancing for several seconds, with dance moves that are humorously unlike a typical baby. ...
The Hamster Dance is an Internet humor fad originating from Hampsterdance. ...
Reactions Proficient internet users created new content inspired by Mahir's page, to capitalise on the millions of visitors. Flash based games, parody MP3s, and countless mirrors added to the phenomenon. End-users also participated taking group photos holding signs with some of the webpage's various catchphrases. These were sent to Mahir or placed on other websites. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Macromedia Flash Player, written and distributed by Macromedia (and recently purchased by Adobe Systems), that utilizes vector and raster graphics, program code and bidirectional streaming video and audio. ...
MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented in 1987 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany. ...
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Quotes - "I KISS YOU!!!!!!"
- "Who is want to come Turkey I can invitate..."
- "She can stay my home..."
- "I Like sex."
See also: Internet phenomenon An Internet phenomenon occurs when something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, but usually for a short duration of time. ...
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