What were the circumstances behind creating your site?

Initially I didn’t have the intention to create a site. It all started with a spontaneous design that I made for the RGB letters. After designing it I thought that it would be nice to add some animation to the letters and then, for the full immersive experience, I asked Rimer London to create the sound.

What started as a useless design became a useless website.
 

What came first, the domain or the code & settle on the domain?

Once I had figured out that I wanted to make a homage to the colours red green and blue, the domain and the code came simultaneously.

I wanted the domain to visually mimic the sound of the site so I settled for rrrgggbbb.com.

Long enough to stand out, short enough to remember.
 

What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning & running such a “unique not really having a purpose” site?

The site hes been incredibly popular (mainly because of it being featured on The Useless Web), but out of the millions of visitors, there was only one person ever emailed me. She was asking me to recreate the same thing but she wanted me to replace RGB with her first name. I politely declined.
 

Was there anything surprising you learned while building rrrgggbbb?

rrrgggbbb.com is a homage to RGB (Red, Green, Blue) the colours used by screens to show us the internet.

I got a lot of questions from people asking me if I was working on a CMYK version but Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black are colours used for print, they do not come across on screens. I talked about this with my friend and graphic designer Anthony Burrill and he suggested to make a poster instead.

People that purchased the poster got a free link to cccmmmyyykkk.com, the digital version of the poster.

What I learned is that people like useless stuff and that people are willing to hang posters of useless stuff on their walls.

If ANYONE has any information on this site, I have a lot of questions. Please send me a hot tip.

What were the circumstances behind creating your site?

The idea of an infinite horse came to me in 2014, when I first heard that .horse was going to be a TLD. I joked about creating a website called infinite.horse. In 2015 we participated in the “Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon”, which was organized by some friends of ours, so the time to make infinite.horse was nigh (or neigh, if you prefer).
 

What came first, the domain or the code?

The domain. The scrolling code was a quick hack by Kyle using an infinite scroll library by Facebook – the best part is how legs.html works.
 

How did you settle on the domain?

At the hackathon some of the sponsors gave coupons for discounts on domain registration and hosting. Either infinite.horse was already taken or too expensive, so I brainstormed some alternatives and polled other attendees for which sounded best. Endless.horse obviously won.
 

How long ago did you launch the site / what are you working on now?

We launched the site in 2015. Since then, I started a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Kyle was already in his first year of a math PhD), and we’re both close to graduating. Also, fun fact: we’re getting married this May. Well, maybe. The coronavirus situation might throw a wrench into our plans.
 

What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning/running such a unique-not-really-having-a-purpose site?

The press coverage and popularity were unexpected, and we had no idea we were part of a nascent meme. Some of my favorites include hours-long youtube videos dedicated to people scrolling on endless.horse, being included in a lecture at the Parsons School of Design, and a request from a student in Germany that we add https functionality to the site (which I eventually did, see secure.endless.horse). As I mentioned, we’re PhD students so it’s been kind of funny being more known for this website than our academic research.

What were the circumstances behind creating your site?

I made Cat Bounce in 2012 when I was fooling around with a physics engine in Flash. I decided to replace the balls that bounced around the screen with cut-outs of cats because I’m a cat freak. I also recognized the Internet-popularity of cats and I wanted to see if I could make something that would be a hit on the Internet. The working title of the site was ‘Internet Crowd Pleaser’ but I ended up calling it Cat Bounce because it was less of a mouthful and it was WYSIWYG (more or less).
 

What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning/running such a unique-not-really-having-a-purpose site?

The weirdest/most surprising thing about Cat Bounce is that it’s had an incredibly long shelf-life. In 2019 it won a Webby Award and I still get tons of email every week from people who either love it, hate it, or want me to make a site like it but with dogs. I also got a job at adult swim after they saw Cat Bounce, so I can attest: cats are Internet gold.
 

What got you into web development? What are you working on now?

I started making websites in the late 90’s, my first website was on Tripod.com, and it was an offshoot of one of my zines. In the early 2000’s I started making websites for friends, started getting hired to make websites, and a few years after that, I began exhibiting websites as installations and browser-based art. I still make websites but nowadays most of my time is taken up by graduate school, I’m getting a masters degree in philosophy, poetics and mysticism.
 

What is your favorite site on the internet?

Hands down, my favorite websites are Reddit, Archive.org and are.na