Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Crazy Frog Ringtone

Last week, Pete Lyons posted about the annoying Crazy Frog animation. There's an interesting history to this "annoying thing" as documented on Wikipedia. It started out in 1997 with a recording by Daniel Malmedahl imitating sounds made by friends' souped-up mopeds. The recording circulated and eventually showed up on the web as in a Flash-based Insanity Test.

Last year the audio was licensed as a cellphone ringtone by a German company. It eventually became the most commercially successful ringtone of all time.

Who the heck would want to use this as a ringtone?
posted by Bob at 5/31/2005 06:00:00 AM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit