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FAIL Blog won two Webby Awards in 2009, for People's Voice in Humor and Weird. [7] [8] The site has been profiled in multiple publications: The Times named FAIL blog their #3 comedy website, the Los Angeles Times called FAIL Blog, a "fan favorite," Time magazine noted that FAIL Blog has "helped popularize fail as both a noun and an exclamation, not to mention an easier-to-spell synonym for ...
Cheezburger, Inc., previously known as Pet Holdings, Inc., [2] is the parent and holding company for the Cheezburger Network, a collection of websites best known for I Can Has Cheezburger?, Fail Blog, I Has a Hot Dog, and others.
Your wiki or blog. It's probably not internationally famous. If it is, well, go ahead, but let's face it; your blog of cute cats is not internationally famous (three readers is not fame). [1] Your new invention or research paper that will change the world. It will undoubtedly fail. Anything about your cat named Bubba or your dog named Max. No ...
The first "fail" was placed onto the website on December 3, 2009. [1] It is often regarded as a sister website to Fail Blog , a website which focuses on people failing at tasks that they attempt. Failbook is a subdivision of I Can Has Cheezburger? , which is owned by Pet Holdings Incorporated.
Also, FAIL Blog released its first book, Fail Nation: A Visual Romp Through the World of Epic Fails, on October 6, 2009. [16] Cheezburger was the subject of the LOLwork reality television series on the Bravo television network. The series followed Ben Huh and his staff as they created new content for the site. [17]
The interjection fail and the superlative form epic fail expressed derision and ridicule for mistakes deemed "eminently mockable". [19] According to linguist Ben Zimmer , the most probable origin of this usage is Blazing Star (1998), a Japanese video game whose game over message was translated into English as "You fail it".
So go ahead, fail! In the real world, failing on a major project or important task–landing a jet or doing a surgery–can have catastrophic consequences. But on Wikipedia, mistakes can easily get erased, deleted sections can be restored and these actions won't cause massive havoc to the encyclopedia or the rest of the world.
Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.