The world’s greatest music video was released 35 years ago today
It was on this day in 1985 that the world was first subjected to this. We’re now 1,255,948,148 views in. Who would have guessed? Certainly not Rick Astley.
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What if Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” had been written by Alice in Chains?
Then it might sound like this. (Via Metal Injection)
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Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” turns 35 with a new animated video
As of this morning, Rick Astley‘s “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been seen 1,219,210,331 times on YouTube, probably mostly because of people being rickrolled, a phenomenon that only started
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“Never Gonna Give You Up” passes one billion YouTube views–but that doesn’t tell the real story.
When Rick Astley released “Never Gonna Give You Up” on July 27, 1987, no one outside of a handful of computer geeks knew anything about this thing called the “internet.”
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This post contains Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”–but for a very interesting reason.
If you’ve ever been rickrolled–and really, who hasn’t?–you were inevitably redirected to a video shot in 1987 with 1987 technology. That meant using 16 mm film at 24 frames per
Read MoreAI neural network tries to improve on Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” with mixed results
Artificial intelligence is a big deal in the scientific world as boffins in white coats try to make computers into genuine competitors to us meatbags. Jukebox, a program by OpenAI,
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Rick Astley Turns 50 Today. Let’s Celebrate with the All-Time Greatest Rickrolls
As I type this, Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been viewed 177,243,481 times on YouTube. I’m going to go out on a limb here, saying that the
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