RickRolling began as an internet prank where one person is provided a link to something allegedly awesome. However, when they click the link they are directed to Rick Astley's video: "Never Gonna Give You Up"... something decidedly not awesome.
Created by RickRolling on Jun 2, 2010
Last updated: 07/13/11 at 01:05 PM
This amazing infographic found its way to us from Allen Leng over at Online Schools. Thank you!
http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/rickrolling/
University of Oregon's all male acappella group On The Rocks Rick Roll's the A train in NYC (Chambers St headed uptown to 14th). http://www.uoontherocks.com This song was featured on On The Rocks' album "The Green Room," which can be found here: http://bit.ly/9aEfVs For more videos of On The Rocks go to http://www.youtube.com/user/yankeessu...
It's hard to condone the act of RickRolling, but desperate times call for desperate measures. In a recent blog post by Wi-Fi convention provider Codify, excessive BitTorrent traffic at last year's Tech.Ed conference in Australia forced them to take drastic action against anyone trying to file share. The cruel, yet effective weapon of choice was Rick Astley, and his now infamous song "Never Gonna Give You Up" .
According to Codify the problem with BitTorrent users on a public Wi-Fi network isn't bandwidth, but excessive port usage. “At this point you have to remember that we have a heap of bandwidth available. Some clients chomping through a lot of bandwidth isn’t a problem and running BitTorrent isn’t a problem per se,” said Codify’s David Connor. Several options were considered to restrict traffic, but in the end it was determined nothing short of Rick Astley could save the day. “….we implemented certain, ahem, ‘interim countermeasures’,” wrote Connor. “We quickly built a list of all of the top torrent trackers around and got the nod from Jorke [Odolphi, Web Platform Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Australia] to add them all to the local DNS resolver and point them at a local web server containing some RickRoll scripts.”
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsofts_war_against_bittorrent_ends_rickroll
The Internet was a scary place for a few hours Wednesday. The original video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" was inadvertently removed from YouTube, "due to terms of use violation." And both the blogosphere and Twitter were up in arms.Rickroll image
Typically, when an awful song from the 1980s containing ridiculous dance moves gets taken down from YouTube, it wouldn't matter. But Rick Astley's now-famous tune was the subject of an Internet "meme" (a viral sharing of Web content from one person to another) last year, called "Rickrolling."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/rickroll-removed-youtube.html
The first worm to infect the iPhone will not affect most users of Apple's smartphone, despite worrying reports. The ikee worm only affects jailbroken iPhones, representing a minority percentage of iPhones on the market.
Reports this weekend warned of a number of iPhones in Australia reportedly infected by a worm that only replaces the device's background wallpaper with an image of 80s pop icon Rick Astley.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181712/iphone_rickroll_worm_is_no_threat_to_most_users.html
April 13, 2009 1:10 PM PDT
Author of Rickrolling song says Google 'exploited' him
by Greg Sandoval
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The man who co-wrote "Never Gonna Give You Up," the 1980s song revitalized by the Rickrolling phenomenon on YouTube last year, is accusing Google of exploiting him.
The music video, featuring singer Rick Astley, has been viewed more than 150 million times on YouTube but Pete Waterman earned about $16, just enough money to buy a CD.
Some argue that he was overpaid.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10218302-93.html
Original video is viewed over 30 million times.
In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song "Never Gonna Give You Up", as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of "rick rolling".
This annoying creature springs legs of it's own as thousands are MudkipRolled
This variation of RickRolling appear in August of 2008
Popular cartoon dead Peter Griffin gets RickRolled, with terrible consequences.
Bill gets RickRolled on his show and gets PISSSSSSSEDDDDD
RickRolling is an evolution of DuckRolling where a link misdirects to a photo of a duck on wheels.
By April of 2008, more than 25 Million people had been RickRolled.
A link supposedly redirecting to a preview for the hit video game is actually a RickRoll. Gotcha!
http://www.viddler.com/explore/RickRoll/videos/1/
Mets fans got upset when they were the victim of a RickRoll instead of just a terrible baseball team.
On April Fools day, every video on YouTube redirects to a RickRoll.
It was attempted, IRL as the kids say, at one of those ridic "anonymous" Scientology protests last weekend. Retarded and awesome clip below
The BellAir Roll featured the Fresh Prince song cut in with RickRolling
May 2007 is the rumored birth date of the world's first RickRoll, which took place on 4Chan.
http://www.4chan.org/
n the "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video, directed by Simon West,[1] a smiling Astley sings and dances to the song in various outfits and venues in West London, sometimes accompanied by backup dancers. A bartender played by Clive Clarke gradually shifts from casually noticing Astley's singing to being fully engrossed in the song with energetic acrobatic moves. The athletic exertion of many of the other dancers also becomes more intense over the course of Astley's performance.
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