Sometimes weeks and weeks will go by, and Yellow Number Five will receive no attention whatsoever. The occasional fan mail will trickle in, but mostly nothing.
Then every now and then, I’ll get an email from Sister Machine Gun or Pet Of The Future wondering how they ended up on a compilation album without hearing about it.
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to mislead people on the internet. Even with something as blatantly false as Y5! It will be interesting to see if getting some sound samples from Zach will fool even more people.
I love the internet. :)
Edit 10/26/2005: We no longer control the fojar domain name, so the link to zach’s website is dead.
I'm a 30-year-old 
There was an article on the Onion about how a factual error was found on the internet and how this would forever mar the image of the internet as perfect and truthful.
Its true though. As a new medium, the majority of people have not figured out the intricacies and subtleties of the internet. We still have not gone far from the day of “its on a web site (or email) so it must be true!” People still have yet to distinguish good sources from untrue or biased ones and unlike books where references are noted and therefore easier to cross-reference, they find the idea of researching something for themselves somewhat alien. In an age where most information is fed to you it can be difficult to realize that you have to think for yourself and that sometimes, just sometimes, not everything is as it seems.
July 10th, 2002 at 11:00 pm
The same holds true for printed material … if it’s in black and white, we tend to grant it credibility. Look at how many folks implicitly believe what’s printed in the tabloids.
July 12th, 2002 at 7:41 am
Why don’t you update Y5 more often? i think it’s been years since the last update…
August 30th, 2002 at 3:29 pm