Though The Maze was among the first Internet Screamers, it certainly wouldn’t be the last. I was very flattered and figured I should make a website for all the stupid prank games I’ve made.” “About 5 months later, someone had sent the same email back to my mother! It had turned into a viral email joke. “I made this game in October of ’04 for Halloween and sent it to a few of my friends in an email,” Winterrowd wrote on Yahoo Answers more than a decade ago. Even its creator was taken aback by the simple Flash game’s viral potential. The game was created in 2004 by developer Jeremy Winterrowd and hosted on his site (until it was taken down in early 2019, shortly after Adobe Flash was discontinued). “The Maze” or “Scary Maze Game” was among the phenomenon’s first big hits. Throughout the mid-2000s and early 2010s, the World Wide Web was fit to bursting with PTSD-inducing internet jump scares or “Internet Screamers” as they’d come to be known. Into that entropy stepped some of the most diabolical pranks pulled off at a scale not seen since Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast.
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Back when the Space Jam website was built on caveman HTML code and Facebook was but a glint in a horny Harvard creep’s eye, the Internet was truly the Wild West. But believe it or not, it used to be even less…refined. No one would call the internet of today a civilized place.
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