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Newgrounds
Type Private
Founded July 6, 1995
Headquarters Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
Key people Tom Fulp: Founder & CEO
Rob Rosenbaum & James Holloway: Back-End Programmers
Tim Miller: Sysadmin
Will Stamper & Jeff Bandelin: Web and Media Designers
Bob Rudderow: CSS Designer
Wade Fulp: Administrator & Public Relations
Industry Internet services
Website www.newgrounds.com


Newgrounds is a website headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Glenside is a Census-designated place (CDP in Abington and Cheltenham Townships Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator A system administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain and operate a Computer system and/or network. Web page design is a process of conceptualization planning modeling and execution of Electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Glenside is a Census-designated place (CDP in Abington and Cheltenham Townships Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of Multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated Film which is created using Adobe Flash animation software and often distributed in the Browser games are electronic Games that are played online via the Internet. The site was created and is owned by Tom Fulp (born April 30, 1978), who still oversees every aspect and regularly produces in-house content. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Newgrounds is distinguished from other Flash websites by its automated submission/rating system. Automation ( Ancient Greek: = self dictated) roboticization or industrial automation or Numerical control is the use of Control systems

Contents

Front page icons

On April 19, 2000 the first front page icon for a user-submitted Flash game was posted under the heading "Tom and Wade Recommend:". Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The game that was posted was Taipan 3000 by Josh "Psycho Goldfish" Tuttle, a remake of a popular Apple II game called Taipan!. Taipan! is a Turn-based strategy Computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80 which was created in 1982

Over the years, as Newgrounds received more and more quality submissions the "Tom and Wade recommend" section grew from 1 to 2, 2 to 4, and 4 to 6 icons. There are currently 24 icons on the front page. The rate at which these icons was updated also increased, from weeks to days, eventually leading to the removal of the "Tom and Wade recommend" heading and becoming a staple of the front page, making it easy for new users to the site to find quality content.

Today the front page features 12 movies and 12 games, all hand-picked by the Newgrounds staff. Most of these are featured for about a week or less before being replaced, with the occasional very high-scoring piece of content lasting several weeks at a time, especially those ranking high in the All Time Top 50.

Originally the icons were created by 08 Users, as were the short text descriptions (The same process used for the collections pages), but this proved to be extremely time consuming and soon users were given the ability to attach their own icons with their submissions, and write their own brief descriptions.

In January 2005 the front page archive was launched, keeping a month-by-month list of Flash content that was deemed to be worthy of display on the Newgrounds front page.

On July 26, 2005, the Icon Helpers system was launched for Newgrounds volunteers to make and submit icons for older Flash content that was lacking an icon, making the integration to automated collections pages much more effective. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Newgrounds Forum

The Newgrounds Forum has a community of roughly 1,500[1] unique posters a day. Its community discusses a variety of popular topics in each of the 12 forum categories ranging from site related Flash submissions, to personal and off topic discussion. FLASH, acronym of F ree E lectron LAS er in H amburg, an Accelerator -based soft X-ray Laser located The most popular section on the forum is "General" discussion, housing over 520,000 topics [2]. In the Flash or Art forum you would expect far more serious and moderated discussion as the staff strongly encourages a creative community.

Forum Catagories

All-Access Forums

Reply-Only Forums

Audio Portal

The Newgrounds Audio Portal is a place where amateur artists can submit all types of music. When an artist submits their first song an administrator or audio moderator will have to review it before it gets listed, this can take two days or longer. All the music is free to use (under a Creative Commons license). Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share

Since the redesign, the Audio Portal has become more flexible and allows artists to edit their submissions or remove them providing it hasn't been used in a Flash, yet[3] also they are able to add an icon like with flash submissions. Unlike the Flash Portal, Audio cannot be "blammed", this might be due to the lack of popularity of the Audio Portal or other reasons.

Censorship

Newgrounds has been known to censor the words "Whitey", "Cracker" and "Nigger" throughout the Newgrounds text-place areas, except the only place it is not censored is the profile post replying section due to using JavaScript. Nigger is a Noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a derogatory context to refer to Black people, and also as an informal JavaScript is a Scripting language most often used for Client-side web development The reason is mostly (and probably) because as it shows in the Flash submission area it quotes that "Your Flash should not be racist" as being known that Newgrounds is against racism. [4]

Newgrounds Flash Collection(s)

Submitting a Flash animation or game to Newgrounds gives the viewers a chance to choose to recommend the Flash to a collection or not. The collections help viewers of Newgrounds navigate the website easier to help find what they are looking for. For example; the Clock Crew collection contains Flash videos pertaining to the Clock Crew, a specific Flash group on Newgrounds as well as on their own personal website[1]. Series collections are also alloted to popular serial Flash, such as Salad Fingers. Salad Fingers is a Flash cartoon series originally created by David Firth in July 2004 which gained rapid internet popularity in 2005 A certain amount of votes for a collection as well as approval from an administrator/moderator is required for the Flash to go into the collection.

NG-Groups

There is a large list of Groups, formed by Newgrounds users, with the function to be platform for people who have the same taste of humor, the same interests or a similar style, to work together in so called collaboration projects. The following list includes NG-Groups that contain at least thirty active and participating members:

Site Redesign

On 16th July 2007, Newgrounds underwent a total redesign. The redesign process took many months to prepare and the site was down for about one and a half days to implement it. The under construction page showed the Newgrounds tank being welded by three Tankmen characters, while text said 'IN UR TANK, UPGRADING UR FEATURZ'. The redesign added a number of new features, including blogs on user pages and modifications to the level and blam/protection systems.

Several system upgrades were commenced on 28th April, 2008. A similar under construction page was shown, this time saying 'IN UR TANK, UPGRADING UR SERVERZ :3'. Further upgrades commenced on the 7th of May and 12th of May 2008.

On Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008, the servers underwent maintenance. During the process, the same animation as the redesign and server upgrade was shown, under which was text saying 'IN UR TANK, MAINTAININ UR SERVERZ :3'

At first many were angry about the redesign, but after a few weeks it was accepted and loved by most Grounds Gold members.

In the media

Events

Newgrounds hosts and participates in many events throughout the year to give users a chance to meet each other or to interact in general. Some events are organized by regulars but usually by forum moderators and site administrators.

Notable Events:

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum/1
  2. ^ http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/
  3. ^ NG BBS — User Reviews, Audio Tools, Rankings
  4. ^ NG BBS - Nig*er banned on the BBS
  5. ^ Newgrounds Presents: Teletubby Fun Land
  6. ^ Newgrounds Literature
  7. ^ FOXNews.com - Videogame Enrages Israeli Supporters - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
  8. ^ http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/219-02102005-447793.html
  9. ^ The New York Times > National > Signs of Danger Were Missed in a Troubled Teenager's Life
  10. ^ Numa Numa Dance
  11. ^ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Star Wars Kid is top viral video
  12. ^ The New York Times > New York Region > Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa
  13. ^ New Numa
  14. ^ NG BBS — G4 Co-Hosting!

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