More than a small number of us have at some point opened up our laptops and clicked on an email link to watch some attractive video on the Net, only to find that we had been “Rickrolled”.
If you haven’t, Rickrolling is a famous Internet prank that originated back in 2007 on the 4chan forum and by 2008 had turn out to be a global phenomenon.
The joke concerned tricking someone into clicking on a link that appeared to be incredible else but which took the spectator to a page where instead of what the viewer was expecting, they were obtainable with a YouTube video of 80’s song ‘Never Gonna Give you Up’ which thrust unsuspecting 80’s singer Rick Astley back into the attention.
Well now the days of Rickrolling are all but over as YouTube has detached the original Rickrolling video due to “terms of use violation”. The video by the way had amassed tens of millions of hits in its time.
