Remember Varitalk?
In 2005 when "Snakes On A Plane" was still buzzing on the web Varitalk came up with a viral marketing trick that was truly brilliant- you put some data in and someone's phone number and it would call that number with Samuel L. Mothafukkin Jackson's voice and tell them all about the movie.

I sent it to a rather lunatic friend of mine, and five minutes later he called me. "How the fuck did you do that?" he demanded, with an almost hysterical edge to his voice. I told him and he immediately hung up.

From what I hear, the phone lines in that part of the city lit up heavily as he did it to twenty friends, who did it to twenty friends, who did it to twenty friends...

It's a wonder any calls went through at all that night.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 19 May 2011, 19:30, 1 reply)

I did that too. Thanks for the blast from the past.
(Rainbow Meow, Thu 19 May 2011, 20:13, closed)