i like monkeys gets a new home

I hear this a lot: Hey, you’re the monkey guy, right? Indeed, I have gotten far too much mileage out of a simple text file that I got off the Internet in the mid-90s that I did not write. Nor do I know who originally wrote it. But there’s a new location for I Like Monkeys since I’m sure that Red Hat will eventually remove my people page.

I’m pretty sure this is not worth an entire web log entry, but hey. Here it is.

  1. Patrick Wagstrom’s avatar

    Chris,

    You’re right it’s not worth an entire web log entry. I contend that “I Like Monkeys” is worth an entire weblog. If not that, then probably 2-3 weblogs. Be careful, if you keep on mocking it, a monkey may decide to punch you in the genitals.

    –Patrick

  2. Havoc’s avatar

    You need to put Google ads on it – just to see what ads Google thinks are relevant to that thing…

  3. jmdesp’s avatar

    Mark Bakalor says he’s the original author and has put it online around 1994. http://www.hijinks.com/~mark/archives/1999_11_01_index.html#23590

    His claim seems more believable than the one of those who claim authorship giving dates more recent than the oldest copy here on google groups :
    http://groups.google.fr/group/nl.misc/msg/88bb36348dc74dfb

  4. Rahul Sundaram’s avatar

    I haven’t read it before. That’s hilarious.

  5. Mike Ferris’s avatar

    Wow. First read for me. Oddly, this makes more sense than a “series of tubes” ever did.

  6. ethana2’s avatar

    He said he was going to work at google. My arm wasn’t long enough to punch him in the genitals, so I threw a chair at him instead.

  7. chibi38’s avatar

    im ten years old and i found your monkeys page at chenango forks school! it is the funneist thing i ever read…

  8. Steven Mohler’s avatar

    I wrote this for a friend back in high school, around 1995 or 1996.

  9. OthelloNYC’s avatar

    I actually know the guy who wrote this as a simple email back in 1994, as a freshman at Polytechnic University and, everyone ended up forwarding the hell out of it.