bert is evil is the name of a web site, founded by dino ignacio on march 30, 1997, which featured bert, a character on the american children's television program sesame street. in 1998 dino ignacio, wout j reinders and jasper hulshoff pol accepted the webby award and the people's voice award for best weird website at the palace of fine arts auditorium in san francisco. the website featured manipulated images of the character consorting with nefarious figures such as adolf hitler and osama bin laden as well as being present at events such as the jfk assassinationimage of bert at the jfk assassination and september 11 attacks, humorously offered as "proof" that bert was no mere innocent children's television character. the "evil bert" phenomenon was picked up by other humorists, who created their own images linking bert to current and historical atrocities. in the summer of 1998, due to the website's immense cult popularity, it became too expensive for ignacio to continue running. instead of shutting the site down, he offered to allow anyone who was willing to mirror his original website the opportunity to host it. as a result dozens of mirrors appeared, increasing the website's popularity and visibility. ==notoriety== the very first mirror, maintained by dennis pozniak, became the most popular by continuing where ignacio left off by adding new "evidence" of bert's evilness (such as bert's connection to the ramsey familyimage of bert with the ramsey family and infamous serial killer jack the ripperimage of bert as jack the ripper). in late 1998 pozniak posted a contribution submitted by humorist j-roen photoshopped to depict a then relatively unknown international terrorist, osama bin laden,image of bert with osama bin laden posing with bert. in 2001, an undoctored reuters news photograph was published showing a pro-osama bin laden protest rally in bangladesh.{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/entertainment/wolffiles/
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