On Tuesday, when David announced 100 billion DNS queries for OpenDNS, the chart was enhanced with a dancing banana. Go ahead, click through and see.
Back yet?
Good. Now compare the dancing banana to Snappy, the dancing logo of the original Snap.com, shared here. (Thanks to David, Snappy loops continually now.)
This is before Snap became NBC Internet (NBCi), before the company went defunct, and before the Idealab folks bought the easy-to-remember domain name and relaunched a search site. We’re talking 1997-1998.
I am not nostalgic for all of the dot-boom era, but Snappy always made me smile. Here is a less animated, less yellow version of the original site logo:
