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
Website www.squirrel-monkey.com

Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten (Roermond, April 24, 1978) is a Dutch comedy video artist & video game developer 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]

Games

In 2016 Luijten developed two election-inspired online games, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as their main characters.[23] The object of the game is to win the United States presidential election.[24][25]

References

  1. ↑ Wasserman, Todd (April 3, 2012). "What If 'The Facebook' Was Invented in the '90s?". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Green, Dennis (February 5, 2014). "What Would Instagram Look Like If It Were Created in the '80s?". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Watercutter, Angela (April 4, 2012). "Videos: What Facebook Would Have Looked Like in the '90s". Wired. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Watercutter, Angela (February 4, 2014). "If Instagram Was Around in the '80s, This Would Be Its Launch Video". Wired. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Jauregui, Andres (April 4, 2012). "Totally 90s Facebook Video Offers Smart Social Commentary, Retro LOLs (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jauregui, Andres (April 4, 2012). "If Twitter Had Been Invented In The '80s (VIDEOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "What Would Wikipedia Look Like If It Were Made In The 1980s?". Huffington Post. June 3, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Tull, Oliver (February 2, 2014). "What If We Had Instagram In The 80s?". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ Moyer, Andres (April 5, 2012). "Twitter, Facebook go retro like Google Maps". CNET. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ , Joluijten.com
  12. ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 3, 2012). "If Facebook Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  13. ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 4, 2012). "If Angry Birds Were Invented In the 80s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  14. ↑ Diaz, Jesus (April 4, 2012). "If DrawSomething Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  15. ↑ Rose, Brent (April 4, 2012). "Why Spotify Didn't Exist In the 80's". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  16. ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (May 1, 2012). "Believe It Or Not, LinkedIn Would Have Been Even More Annoying In the 80s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  17. ↑ Chan, Casey (June 3, 2013). "How Wikipedia Would Have Worked in the 1980s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  18. ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (February 4, 2014). "Instagram Would Have Been Even Awesomer In the 80s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  19. ↑ , Joluijten.com
  20. ↑ Davis, Warwick (May 24, 2013). "Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments". The Multiverse. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  21. ↑ , Nitehawk Hatched, April 30, 2012.
  22. ↑ , LISTAPORNÓ 2014: az év legjobb videói , December 25, 2014.
  23. ↑ Fashingbauer Cooper, Fashingbauer Cooper (June 8, 2016). "Trump and Clinton star in retro video games you can really play". CNET. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  24. ↑ Blevins, Blevins (June 3, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns the blighted 2016 election into a fun, retro game". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  25. ↑ Sabris, Sabris (June 7, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns 2016 election into retro game". CNET. Retrieved April 16, 2017.


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