Newgrounds
Type	Private
Founded	July 6, 1995
Headquarters	Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
Key people	Tom Fulp: Founder & CEO Rob Rosenbaum & James Holloway: Back-End Programmers Tim Miller: Sysadmin Will Stamper & Jeff Bandelin: Web and Media Designers Bob Rudderow: CSS Designer Wade Fulp: Administrator & Public Relations
Industry	Internet services
Website	www.newgrounds.com

Newgrounds is a website headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games. The site was created and is owned by Tom Fulp (born April 30, 1978), who still oversees every aspect and regularly produces in-house content. Newgrounds is distinguished from other Flash websites by its automated submission/rating system. A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Glenside is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Chief Executive redirects here. ... A system administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain, and operate a computer system or network. ... Web design is the design or designing of a web page, website or web application. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... Glenside is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Adobe Flash - previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash - is a set of multimedia technologies developed and distributed by Adobe Systems and earlier by Macromedia. ... A Flash cartoon is an animated film created using Macromedia Flash animation software, usually as a form of limited animation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Automation (ancient Greek: = self dictated) or Industrial Automation is the use of computers to control industrial machinery and processes, replacing human operators. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Front page icons

On April 19, 2000 the first front page icon for a user-submitted Flash game was posted under the heading "Tom and Wade Recommend:". The game that was posted was Taipan 3000 by Josh "Psycho Goldfish" Tuttle, a remake of a popular Apple II game called Taipan!. is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Over the years, as Newgrounds received more and more quality submissions the "Tom and Wade recommend" section grew from 1 to 2, 2 to 4, and 4 to 6 icons. There are currently 24 icons on the front page. The rate at which these icons was updated also increased, from weeks to days, eventually leading to the removal of the "Tom and Wade recommend" heading and becoming a staple of the front page, making it easy for new users to the site to find quality content.

Today the front page features 12 movies and 12 games, all hand-picked by the Newgrounds staff. Most of these are featured for about a week or less before being replaced, with the occasional very high-scoring piece of content lasting several weeks at a time, especially those ranking high in the All Time Top 50.

Originally the icons were created by Newgrounds admins, as were the short text descriptions (The same process used for the collections pages), but this proved to be extremely time consuming and soon users were given the ability to attach their own icons with their submissions, and write their own brief descriptions.

In January 2005 the front page archive was launched, keeping a month-by-month list of Flash content that was deemed to be worthy of display on the Newgrounds front page.

On July 26, 2005, the Icon Helpers system was launched for Newgrounds volunteers to make and submit icons for older Flash content that was lacking an icon, making the integration to automated collections pages much more effective. is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newgrounds BBS

The Newgrounds BBS has a community of roughly 300 active posters a day. It's community discusses daily in each of the 12 forums various topics ranging from site related flash to personal and off topic discussion. The most popular forum on the BBS is the General discussion forum, the general tone found here is the community styled humour which focuses playfully on homosexuality, ranting and controversies such as rape. Despite this, serious topics are also found on the forum and most of them do get serious replies. In the Flash or Art forum you would expect far more serious and moderated discussion as the staff strongly encourages a creative community. A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ...

BBS Catagories

• General
• Where is/How To?
• Flash
• Politics
• Programming
• Clubs & Crews
• Audio
• Art
• Video Games (New Created 3/20/08)
• NG News
• Network News
• P-bot's Postings

Audio Portal

The Newgrounds Audio Portal is a place where amateur artists can submit all types of music. When you submit your first song an administrator or audio moderator will have to review it before it gets listed, this can take two days or longer. All the music is free to use (under a Creative Commons license). The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ...

Since the redesign, the Audio Portal has become more flexible and allows artists to edit their submissions or remove them providing it hasn't been used in a Flash, yet^[1] also they are able to add an icon like with flash submissions. Unlike the Flash Portal, Audio cannot be "blammed", this might be due to the lack of popularity of the Audio Portal or other reasons.

Controversy

Newgrounds has been known to censor the words "nigga" and "nigger" throughout the Newgrounds text-place areas. The reason is mostly (and probably) because as it shows in the Flash submission area it quotes that "Your Flash should not be racist" as being known that Newgrounds is against racism.^[2] Nigga is a term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger (which is derived ultimately from the Latin word niger meaning the color black). ... // Nigger is a racial slur used to refer to dark-skinned people, especially those of African ancestry. ...

Newgrounds Flash Collection(s)

Submitting a Flash animation or game to Newgrounds gives the viewers a chance to choose to recommend the Flash to a collection or not. The collections help viewers of Newgrounds navigate the website easier to help find what they are looking for. For example; the Clock Crew collection contains Flash videos pertaining to the Clock Crew, a specific Flash group on Newgrounds as well as on their own personal website[1]. Series collections are also alloted to popular serial Flash, such as Salad Fingers. A certain amount of votes for a collection as well as approval from an administrator/moderator is required for the Flash to go into the collection. Salad Fingers is a Flash cartoon series (created by David Firth) which gained rapid internet popularity in 2005. ...

Site Redesign

On 16th July 2007, Newgrounds underwent a total redesign. The redesign process took many months to prepare and the site was down for about one and a half days to implement it. The under construction page showed the Newgrounds tank being welded by three Tankmen characters, while text said 'IN UR TANK, UPGRADING UR FEATURZ'. The redesign added a number of new features, including blogs on user pages and modifications to the level and blam/protection systems.

Several system upgrades were commenced on 28th April, 2008. A similar under construction page was shown, this time saying 'IN UR TANK, UPGRADING UR SERVERZ :3'.

In the media

• Teletubbies: In 1998, Tom Fulp of Newgrounds created a spoof of "Teletubbies" called "Telebubby Fun Land^[3]" which resulted in a law suit from the BBC^[4]. This resulted in a boost of notoriety and media exposure.
• Kaboom!: In mid-2002, Newgrounds received notoriety for hosting Kaboom!, a game in which the player controls an apparent Palestinian suicide bomber who kills innocent men, women and children in Israel.^[5] Despite receiving criticism and calls for its removal from the internet by congresswoman Nita Lowey, several groups including the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, and other sources, Newgrounds continued to host the game.
• Oklahoma City Escapades: Newgrounds received more negative attention in 2004 by refusing to remove Oklahoma City Escapades from its site, which is a game that was developed by Joshua Bend, that spoofs the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.^[6]
• Jeff Weise: Jeff Weise, infamous for the Red Lake High School massacre, posted a violent animation on Newgrounds.com.^[7] Its existence was discovered and widely reported after the massacre.
• Numa Numa Dance: Gary Brolsma first published his "Numa Numa Dance" on Newgrounds on December 6, 2004, where it has since been seen more than 14 million times^[8], and copied onto hundreds of other websites and blogs, making it the second-most watched viral video of all time^[9] (only losing out to Star Wars kid). He has also received mainstream media coverage from Good Morning America, The Tonight Show and Best Week Ever, and, according to The New York Times, was an "unwilling and embarrassed Web celebrity."^[10] In September 8, 2006, he reappeared with a professionally produced video titled "New Numa"^[11]. The release of the video has prompted the New Numa Contest which offers up to $45,000 in prizes.
• Attack of the Show! From July 5-8th 2005, Tom Fulp was a co-host on Attack of the Show! in which he would showcase and describe popular Newgrounds flash submissions.^[12]
• The Virginia Tech Massacre media blowout: V-Tech rampage, Virginia Tech Shootout!, and others achieved questionable fame from allegations of making fun of the Virginia Tech massacre.
• Metasonix: David Lovelace, creator of the popular Newgrounds series Retarded Animal Babies, used his Animal Babies characters in the offensive panel artwork for a guitar amp made by Metasonix and demonstrated at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show. The amplifier caused a minor firestorm of media attention. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Events

Newgrounds hosts and participates in many events throughout the year to give users a chance to meet each other or to interact in general. Some events are organized by regulars but usually by forum moderators and site administrators.

Notable Events:

• Comic-Con (2006)
• NG Mod Meetup (2005)
• NG Sketchbook Tour (2006)
• NG Sketchbook Tour (2007)

See also

• Alien Hominid
• Castle Crashers
• The Behemoth
• David Firth
• David Lovelace
• Salad Fingers
• Men from Up the Stairs
• Numa Numa Dance
• All your base are belong to us
• 8-Bit Theater
• Jeff Weise
• Adam Fulton

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References

External links

• A collection of historic Newgrounds Flashes
• Dissertation Focusing on Newgrounds
• Newgrounds BBS
• The Newgrounds Wiki
• Newgrounds Archive
• Newgrounds Log
• Tom Fulp on MySpace
• Wade Fulp on MySpace