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Type of site | Digital Arts Community, Message board |
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| Owner | Rob Manuel, Cal Henderson, Denise Wilton |
| Created by | Communal |
| URL | b3ta.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional, Required to post |
| Launched | 2001 |
B3ta /ˈbiːtə/ (stylised as b3ta) is a popular British website,[1] described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian.[2] It was founded in 2001 by Rob Manuel, Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson.
B3ta's main feature is a newsletter featuring the latest work of the B3ta community and other interesting, humorous or perverse things found on the Web. The newsletter has about 100,000 readers.[3] A message board allows members to post digital images and short animations they have created, the ones considered the best appearing on the front page, along with various announcements. Previously there was a B3ta radio show on the London station Resonance FM.[3]
Many popular Internet phenomena were created by B3ta members (also called "b3tans or "B3tards"[4]). These include the Macromedia Flash cartoons created by Joel Veitch and Jonti Picking, the surrealist animations by Cyriak Harris, and the quizzes by Rob Manuel.
A book entitled The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes was published in 2006, containing jokes compiled from B3ta contributors and a spin-off wiki humour website, Sickipedia.
- ^ "Fire at The Planet takes down thousands of websites". The Register. 1 June 2008. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ Green, Dave (21 August 2003). "Web watch". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 18 August 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2006.
- ^ a b "2003 BBC interview with Rob Manuel". Bbc.co.uk. August 2003. Archived from the original on 2 May 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- ^ "B3tan - B3ta Dictionary". Dictionary.mictoboy.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2012.