Information & Credits
Credits
Author: Alex Toucan
Original Creators: Earthbounder and benjabean1
Audio: Breakfast Machine (From "Pee Wee's Big Adventure")
Foreground: Unknown but first appeared on YTMND.
Scripter: Alex Toucan
History
The Blue Ball Machine first appeared on YTMND in 2005, which YTMND, an initialism for "You're the Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted memetic web pages. The site was created or at least owned by the account of Earthbounder. The site would later stop working archives around 2009.
The site would later be brought to haneke.net from mid-2008, to its demise in early 2017. The site used to be a German "Internetportal" in 2003, and was a red button that opened a empty pop-up in 2004. The site later become the Blue Ball Machine that we all know and love from early-mid 2008.
The site exploded in popularity from late 2012, which even appeared on the The Useless Web at one point, according to its list from 2013-2014. The site sadly disappeared in mid-2017. The site is now a nest box live camera from 2021, and still exists in 2025.
However, the YTMND site would be revived in mid-2019, as they switched from Flash to HTML5, which appears to now be maintained by a user called benjabean1. The site reads that the GIF's origin is "... unknown, but it has been used on many YTMNDs before." And the sound is from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure".