Jo Luijten
| Jo Luijten | |
|---|---|
 Luijten performing at the Ha Ha Cafe Comedy Club in North Hollywood | |
| Born |
Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten April 24, 1978 Roermond, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | Utrecht University |
| Occupation | Video artist |
| Years active | 2012-present |
Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten (Roermond, April 24, 1978) is a Dutch comedy video artist who works with Kinna McInroe under the pseudonym of Squirrel-Monkey.
Videos
Most of his videos show what social networking sites and video games might have looked like in the 1980s or 1990s. His videos have received positive press from a number of news and technology websites. They were highlighted by Mashable,[1][2] Wired,[3][4] The Huffington Post,[5][6][7][8][9] CNET,[10] ITN,[11] Gizmodo[12] [13][14][15][16][17][18] and other media.[19]
As part of the YouTube Comedy Week in 2013, Warwick Davis presented Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments, which included a video made by Luijten.[20] The Nighthawk Cinema in New York City in collaboration with Daily Motion selected his video If Angry Birds were invented in the ’80s for the Cinema Selects cinema screening.[21] The Hungarian online magazine Urbnplyr considered the video If Instagram were invented in the '80s... as one of the best videos of 2014.[22]
References
- ↑ Wasserman, Todd (April 3, 2012). "What If 'The Facebook' Was Invented in the '90s?". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Green, Dennis (February 5, 2014). "What Would Instagram Look Like If It Were Created in the '80s?". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Watercutter, Angela (April 4, 2012). "Videos: What Facebook Would Have Looked Like in the ’90s". Wired. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Watercutter, Angela (February 4, 2014). "If Instagram Was Around in the ’80s, This Would Be Its Launch Video". Wired. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Jauregui, Andres (April 4, 2012). "Totally 90s Facebook Video Offers Smart Social Commentary, Retro LOLs (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Jauregui, Andres (April 4, 2012). "If Twitter Had Been Invented In The '80s (VIDEOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Brooks, Katherine (February 25, 2013). "The Joy Of ASCII: Bob Ross Video Just Might Be The Strangest Painting How-To We've Ever Seen (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ "What Would Wikipedia Look Like If It Were Made In The 1980s?". Huffington Post. June 3, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Tull, Oliver (February 2, 2014). "What If We Had Instagram In The 80s?". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Moyer, Andres (April 5, 2012). "Twitter, Facebook go retro like Google Maps". CNET. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ , Joluijten.com
- ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 3, 2012). "If Facebook Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 4, 2012). "If Angry Birds Were Invented In the 80s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 4, 2012). "If DrawSomething Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Rose, Brent (April 4, 2012). "Why Spotify Didn't Exist In the 80's". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (May 1, 2012). "Believe It Or Not, LinkedIn Would Have Been Even More Annoying In the 80s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Chan, Casey (June 3, 2013). "How Wikipedia Would Have Worked in the 1980s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (February 4, 2014). "Instagram Would Have Been Even Awesomer In the 80s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ , Joluijten.com
- ↑ Davis, Warwick (May 24, 2013). "Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments". The Multiverse. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ↑ , Nitehawk Hatched, April 30, 2012.
- ↑ http://urbanplayer.hu/hip/listaporno-2014-az-ev-legjobb-videoi], LISTAPORNÓ 2014: az év legjobb videói , December 25, 2014.