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bokete 📖 2008 - 2026 eighteen years of people writing one line under somebody else's photograph, and the counter went past a hundred million of those lines. bokete did not run out of users, it ran out of a codebase anyone could safely repair, and a weak yen made every month of hosting heavier than the last. the posting |
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DogeQuest 📖 2025 - 2025 four weeks is the entire life of this one. the domain was taken out on 17 march 2025 through an anonymous registrar, the site put the names and street addresses of american tesla owners on an interactive map with a molotov cocktail for a mouse cursor, and by 14 april the server behind it had stopped |
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CBP One 📖 2020 - 2025 nearly a million people had booked through it, about 1,450 a day. on 20 january 2025 the scheduling function was removed at noon eastern and every pending appointment was cancelled. seven weeks later the app updated itself on the same phones and came back under a different name, with a button for re |
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CongressEdits 📖 2014 - 2024 an ip address inside the us capitol complex edited a wikipedia article, and a bot announced it in public. that was the entire product. ed summers wrote congressedits on 8 july 2014 after seeing the british version of the same idea, and then released the code so that nine other countries could run th |
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Odd Todd 📖 2001 - 2024 todd rosenberg lost his job in june 2001 and put a flash cartoon called laid off: a day in the life on the web that november. it was about doing nothing all day and it went around the whole broke american internet fast enough to knock his hosting over. people tipped him through a link on the page, a |
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ExitMundi.nl 📖 2001 - 2024 "captivating text and appropriate images... delivered with unremitting good cheer. but still, you are gonna die." new scientist's line sat on the front door of exitmundi.nl for years, next to a single link that said enter. maarten keulemans built the site in 2001, sold fifty of its scenarios as a du |
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Technorealism 📖 1998 - 2024 on 12 march 1998 twelve american technology writers published eight principles about how to think clearly about the internet, and twenty-five hundred people signed them inside three years. the movement stopped moving almost at once. the website kept answering for twenty-six years, first as itself, t |
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ai_sponge 📖 2023 - 2023 on 5 march 2023 an anonymous person pointed a text generator and a voice cloner at character models ripped out of a 2003 playstation game and left the result streaming. the dialogue came from suggestions typed into a discord server that nobody filtered, so bikini bottom spent three months discussing |
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Numa Numa 📖 2004 - 2023 gary brolsma was eighteen when he pointed a webcam at himself in december 2004 and lip-synced an o-zone song from the shoulders up. it reached roughly seven hundred million views, which made it the second most watched video on the internet before the internet had a video site. he wanted no part of t |
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Instagram NFTs 📖 2022 - 2023 stephane kasriel, meta's commerce and fintech lead, posted on 13 march 2023 that the company was winding down digital collectibles for now. that was the entire announcement. instagram had started testing the feature with a handful of creators in may 2022 and had taken it to a hundred countries by th |
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Most Awesomest Thing Ever 📖 2010 - 2022 teleportation finished first out of 4,418 things, ahead of time travel and ahead of the universe itself. the internet, which the voting ran on, came fourth. a brooklyn advertising agency put the site up in april 2010 as a demonstration of what it could build, press covered it for a week, and then it |
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Initiative Q 📖 2018 - 2022 ten million people signed up for a currency that was never issued. initiative q handed out imaginary money to anyone who would invite their friends, on the promise that each unit would be worth about a dollar once enough people had joined. in november 2021 it admitted that ten million was not enough |
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People of Walmart 📖 2009 - 2022 three men in their twenties walked out of a south carolina walmart in 2009 with an idea about photographing strangers, and inside a month time magazine was writing about them. the site ran on submissions for thirteen years and kept a short list of people it refused to post. then the domain stopped a |
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COVIDSafe 📖 2020 - 2022 on 26 april 2020 australia shipped a bluetooth contact tracing app and a million people installed it inside a day. by the time health minister mark butler called it a failed app and had it deleted in august 2022, it had cost over twenty one million dollars and surfaced two covid cases that manual tr |
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Entertainment Weekly (print) 📖 1990 - 2022 ew was the american pop-culture weekly. movies, tv, music, books, the weekly report cards for the fall network schedule. time inc launched it on 16 february 1990, meredith absorbed time inc in 2018, dotdash bought meredith in 2021 for two point seven billion dollars. in february 2022 the new owner a |
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InStyle (print) 📖 1994 - 2022 instyle was the american celebrity-fashion monthly that time inc launched in june 1994 out of the people magazine editorial workshop. martha nelson ran it from a quarterly test issue to a monthly with a million subscribers inside its first year, and the peak circulation of about one point seven six |
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User Friendly 📖 1997 - 2022 a daily webcomic about the staff of a fictional canadian isp called columbia internet, drawn by j.d. frazer under the name illiad from 17 november 1997. it was the workplace sitcom of the sysadmin internet, and for a stretch of years it paid its author a living from books and merchandise before anyo |
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Hot or Not 📖 2000 - 2022 the website where strangers rated photos of strangers on a 1-to-10 scale. it launched in october 2000 from two berkeley engineers and hit two million page views per day in its first week. it was sold to avid life media in 2008 for twenty million dollars, then to badoo in 2012, and finally rebranded |
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GarfieldEats 📖 2019 - 2021 995 bloor street west in toronto spent a year and a half selling a cat-shaped pizza under neon orange sauce. garfieldeats was an app before it was a restaurant, licensed from the people who owned garfield, and the app played cartoons at you while the order came. the storefront went in november 2020 |
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YouTube Rewind 📖 2010 - 2019 youtube rewind was the platform's annual year-in-review tradition that ran from december 2010 through december 2019. the 2018 edition picked up more than 20 million dislikes and became the most-disliked youtube video ever recorded before the public dislike counter was turned off in late 2021. the 20 |
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XTube 📖 2006 - 2021 xtube was the first adult site to import the youtube-style user-upload model on a serious scale. it launched on march 12 2006 out of ontario as a webnovas technologies product, then moved under mindgeek (now aylo) before the end of the decade. the peak was 9 million registered users and roughly an a |
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Whang-od Academy 📖 2021 - 2021 maria oggay was 104 years old and the oldest mambabatok of the butbut people when a course about her hand-tapped tattooing went on sale for 750 pesos. her grandniece posted on 4 august 2021 that no contract had been signed and that nobody had translated the deal. the course page came down the same d |
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WWE ThunderDome 📖 2020 - 2021 nearly a thousand led boards went up around a wrestling ring in orlando in august 2020, and the crowd arrived by video call. wwe's thunderdome handed fans a free virtual seat they had to reserve days in advance, then put their faces in rows where an audience used to sit. it ran eleven months across |
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Sulli Deals 📖 2021 - 2021 sulli deals was a web app that put photographs of indian muslim women up as fake auction lots, each one labeled a deal of the day. nothing was for sale and nobody was bidding. the point was to gather over ninety named women, most of them journalists or activists who had criticized hindu nationalism, |
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Yahoo Answers 📖 2005 - 2021 the community q&a site where you typed a question into a textbox and strangers answered. peaked around 2008-2012 with billions of questions posted. became internet-famous for the absurd ones. "how is babby formed" was a 2008 meme that spread across every english-language forum for a year. yahoo kill |
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Peanut Butter Jelly Time 📖 2002 - 2021 two people posting as ralphwiggum and comrade flynn put a badly pixelated banana on a loop over a chant by a miami dj, and on 21 march 2002 it landed on newgrounds. there was no joke in it, which is why it traveled: a banana with arms and a sentence in english that meant nothing to anyone, in a file |
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Albino Blacksheep 📖 1996 - 2020 albino blacksheep launched in 1996 from toronto. steven lerner ran a personal flash portal that became one of the early-2000s viral video hubs on the english-speaking web. it hosted jason windsor's "end of ze world" from october 2003 and the llama song from 2005. youtube absorbed the viral video tra |
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Yahoo Groups 📖 1998 - 2020 yahoo groups was a hybrid mailing list and web forum platform. you joined a group, you got every post by email, you could also read or search the archive on the web. peaked around 2005-2010 with over 100 million users and roughly 10 million groups covering every hobby, profession, and weird obsessio |
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Will It Blend? 📖 2006 - 2020 will it blend was a blender advertisement that people watched on purpose for fourteen years. tom dickson, who founded blendtec, stood in a lab coat and fed things into his own machines, starting with marbles and working up to an iphone. george wright put it together on about fifty dollars of props i |
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The California Sunday Magazine 📖 2014 - 2020 a sunday newspaper insert launched october 2014 by douglas mcgray and chas edwards, distributed inside the los angeles times and the new york times to reach 400,000 homes. emerson collective bought it in 2018, pulled funding in october 2020, and the magazine won a pulitzer eight months after it was |
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The Subservient Chicken 📖 2004 - 2020 april 2004: burger king paid for a web page where a man in a chicken suit did whatever you typed into the box. it is credited with helping reverse years of falling sales, and it was brought back twice, the second time as a tenth-anniversary stunt whose own copy announced that he was not taking order |
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National Emergency Library 📖 2020 - 2020 on 24 march 2020 the internet archive took the waiting list off 1.4 million scanned books and called the result the national emergency library. ten weeks later hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house filed suit in manhattan, and brewster kahle closed the program on 16 june, two weeks |
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HQ Trivia 📖 2017 - 2020 hq trivia was a live trivia gameshow that ran twice a day on your phone. scott rogowsky read multiple-choice questions to a few million people at once, and the survivors split a real cash prize. it ran hot for about a year, then bled users for two more, then went silent on february 14, 2020, the day |
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HQ Words 📖 2018 - 2020 hq words was the second game inside the hq app, launched in december 2018, a few days after co-founder colin kroll was found dead in his manhattan apartment. it ran wheel-of-fortune style live word puzzles on tuesdays and thursdays at 9:30 pm eastern, with prize pools mostly between one and ten thou |
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itiraf.com 📖 1999 - 2020 itiraf.com opened in october 1999, built by ersan özer while he was working at ntv, and it asked turkish visitors for one thing: type the sentence you would not say out loud, without your name on it. in its first two years it took 300,000 confessions and published 30,000 of them, running at 600 to 7 |
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Não Salvo 📖 2008 - 2020 for about a decade the default joke format of the brazilian internet came out of one blog run by one man in são paulo. maurício cid started it in 2008 as a bit about which celebrities were saved and which were not, and it grew into a network of twenty three sites with a reader army that would do alm |
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ESPN The Magazine 📖 1998 - 2019 disney-espn's answer to sports illustrated. first issue shipped 11 march 1998 with a foldout cover of kobe bryant, alex rodriguez, kordell stewart plus eric lindros. it ran biweekly for 18 years and briefly monthly at the end. peak circulation was 2.14 million subscribers in june 2018. on 30 april 2 |
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Red Room (Akai Heya) 📖 2003 - 2019 a free geocities japan homepage called the contents of the refrigerator, run by a flash author known as o-toro, held one of the most-forwarded horror shorts the japanese web ever produced. the story was about a popup ad that kills you if you close it, and the whole point was that when the movie fini |
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YouTube Video Annotations 📖 2008 - 2019 annotations were clickable boxes drawn on top of a youtube video, shipped in june 2008 and switched off at 15:00 utc on 15 january 2019. they were the only tool youtube ever handed creators for turning a frame into a link, and people used them for subscribe nags and for whole branching adventures as |
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CeBIT 📖 1986 - 2018 cebit began in 1970 as the office-technology hall of the hannover fair and was cut loose as its own show in 1986, at which point it became the week every march when the european computer industry moved to lower saxony. eight hundred and fifty thousand people came at the peak. the istanbul edition, c |
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The Listserve 📖 2012 - 2018 five graduate students at new york university asked what an ordinary person would say with one shot at a large audience, then built the smallest possible machine for finding out. one subscriber was drawn at random each day and given three days to write a single email to everybody else on the list. i |
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Cambridge Analytica 📖 2013 - 2018 up to eighty-seven million facebook profiles ended up inside a political consultancy that almost none of those people had chosen to deal with. the harvest ran through a personality quiz in 2014, the reporting landed in march 2018, and on 2 may the company ceased all operations and filed for insolven |
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MotiFake 📖 2006 - 2018 for twelve years the black border with the white caption was a format anyone could make, and motifake was where the people who made them went. it called itself the original demotivational poster community and it had the user count to argue the point. the moti network around it grew to roughly forty |
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Sports Illustrated (weekly print) 📖 1954 - 2018 american sports as a weekly magazine. time inc launched it 16 august 1954 and it ran on that cadence for 63 years. the january 2018 issues shipped biweekly for the first time, ending the weekly run. by early 2020 it was a monthly. the brand kept sliding through owners after that: meredith, then auth |
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This Is Why You're Fat 📖 2009 - 2018 "where dreams become heart attacks" was the subtitle, and for most of 2009 it was one of the most visited jokes on the english-speaking internet. two media employees set up a tumblr where strangers sent in photographs of food built past the point of edibility, it took ten million page views inside i |
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Leeroy Jenkins 📖 2005 - 2017 a guild called pals for life uploaded forty five seconds of a raid falling apart on 11 may 2005 and the name became a word for anyone who charges in without listening. it was staged, which people argued about for twelve years. in december 2017 ben schulz and ben vinson put out the first take, the dr |
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Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku 📖 2013 - 2017 ios 11 killed it, which is a strange sentence to write about a pizza app. in march 2013 domino's pizza japan and crypton future media shipped an ordering app that let you point a phone at the box and watch hatsune miku appear standing on top of it, with songs written in vocaloid by domino's own staf |
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Demotivalo.net 📖 2010 - 2017 hungary built its own demotivational poster site in 2010 and made it big fast: 200,000 facebook followers, a serious number in a language with thirteen million speakers. then whoever ran demotivalo.net started vanishing for months at a time, and since nothing reached the front page without an admini |
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Stockfighter 📖 2015 - 2016 about forty thousand people signed up to trade on an exchange that did not exist, against an api that behaved like a real one, because three people believed a programming game could find better engineers than a resume screen. the game worked and nearly a hundred players beat the insider trading leve |
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BlogShares 📖 2003 - 2016 blogshares was a fake stock market for weblogs, written in manchester in early 2003 by one person as a side project. a blog's share price came from who linked to it, which meant the entire anglophone blogosphere spent that year watching itself get valued. it indexed over two million blogs and ran a |
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GivesMeHope 📖 2009 - 2016 emerson spartz built mugglenet at twelve and had a company with thirty websites in it by his early twenties. givesmehope was the one that asked readers what gave them hope and printed the answers two lines at a time. half a million hits a day in 2009, a book in 2010, then nothing after the summer of |
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Stolen! 📖 2015 - 2016 a letter from a member of congress ended it. stolen! let you spend play money to own any twitter account, whether the person behind it had signed up or not, and rename whoever you owned. it ran about ten weeks on invite codes, got very loud in the first half of january 2016, and hey inc. pulled the |
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Humortadela 📖 1995 - 2016 brazil got its own humor internet before most countries did. humortadela went up on 3 december 1995 and ran flash cartoons with recurring characters that people quoted at school the next morning. it survived hacker attacks and kept going for fifteen years before the money ran out. it announced the e |
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Universal Typeface Experiment 📖 2014 - 2016 the universal typeface experiment was an advertisement for a ballpoint pen. bic put a writing surface on a web page in june 2014 and asked anyone at all to draw the twenty six capital letters with a finger or a stylus, then averaged every submission into one evolving font you could filter by country |
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Forum signatures 📖 1995 - 2015 the animated banners, glittery name renders, custom anime characters, and long quote collections that hung at the bottom of every forum post from 1998 to 2010. there were "image of the week" competitions. there were professional sig-makers. modern forums (reddit, discourse) ban or restrict them. the |
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Shutdownify 📖 2015 - 2015 on 19 august 2015 a company appeared offering startups a dignified way to announce that they were closing. the only page it ever served was the announcement that it was closing, dated that same day. shaun gallagher put it on hacker news, watched it reach number one, and left it standing until the en |
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Agora 📖 2013 - 2015 for about a year agora was the largest illegal market on the internet, bigger than silk road ever managed, and it got there mostly by being the one nobody managed to seize. operation onymous took down silk road 2.0 and dozens of other hidden services in november 2014 and agora came through untouched |
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Time Cube 📖 1997 - 2015 gene ray put one page on the web in 1997 and spent eighteen years making it longer. the claim was that each rotation of the earth contains four simultaneous days, that every school on the planet was hiding this, and that anybody who disagreed was educated stupid. it was written in microsoft word and |
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The Button 📖 2015 - 2015 the reddit admin who built this went on to make wordle six years later, and the same instinct is in both: one action per person, no way to buy more of it. the button appeared on 1 april 2015 with a sixty second countdown and a single press per account, and nobody was ever told what happened when the |
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Assustador 📖 1999 - 2015 16,899,217 visits in february 2004, every one of them through a front page that was half legal disclaimer and half dare. assustador was where a generation of brazilians on dial-up found out what the internet would show them if they clicked through the warning. it kept answering until march 2015, yea |
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Orange Wednesdays 📖 2003 - 2015 a mobile network promotion that turned into a national weekday habit. you sent the word film to 241 on a wednesday and the code that came back bought two cinema tickets for the price of one. it ran from 2003 to 25 february 2015 and for most of that time it was the best-known thing about orange in br |
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Mundo Canibal 📖 1998 - 2014 mundo canibal was brazil's flash humor site, built by the piologo brothers with rogerio vilela around a character rodrigo had drawn in 1994. from 1998 it put out loud, dialogue-heavy cartoons in portuguese that a generation of brazilian teenagers quoted at each other. it got a nightly show on multis |
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That Guy with the Glasses 📖 2008 - 2014 three men laid off from a circuit city in 2007 built a website around a man who shouted at his childhood movies, and for six years it was the biggest video review site that was not youtube. that guy with the glasses ran on its own domain with blip players embedded in it, which in 2008 was the only a |
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Madden GIFERATOR 📖 2014 - 2014 for seventeen weeks in late 2014 a machine watched every nfl game and made memes about it. google's art, copy & code team built the madden giferator with ea sports: live play data in one end, a taunting gif cut from madden nfl 15 footage out the other, on the open web and inside display ads within s |
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Macworld (print) 📖 1984 - 2014 the apple-press print magazine of record. born february 1984, deliberately timed to ship the same month as the original macintosh, with $200,000 in seed funding from apple's own mike murray. consolidated with macuser through the mac publishing joint venture in 1997. idg announced the print closure o |
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YouTube Original Channel Initiative 📖 2011 - 2013 one hundred million dollars in production money and two hundred million more in marketing bought google about 160 funded channels, madonna and jay-z among the names attached to them. the point was to make youtube look like television to an advertiser. in november 2012 the funding was not renewed for |
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YouTube comments (the original era) 📖 2005 - 2013 the comment section of youtube before google forced it through google+ in 2013. it was famously bad. flame wars. spam. the worst possible takes about any topic. it was also genuinely funny in places, with running jokes and memes that lived in specific videos for years. the google+ integration in nov |
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X10 Wireless Technology 📖 1999 - 2013 28.6 million people arrived at x10.com in may 2001, which put it fifth on the web behind aol and microsoft, and hardly any of them meant to go there. the company sold a small wireless camera and bought pop-under advertising at a volume nobody had attempted before, so the ad opened behind your browse |
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PC World (print) 📖 1983 - 2013 idg's flagship consumer-pc print magazine. first issue march 1983 by david bunnell and cheryl woodard, the same pair behind macworld a year later. first computer magazine to hit one million paid subscribers, february 1999. idg announced the print closure on july 10 2013. the august 2013 issue was th |
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Stick Figure Death Theatre 📖 1996 - 2013 breaking the rules of entertainment was the slogan, and the rule being broken was that a cartoon needs characters you can tell apart. matt calvert started collecting stick figure animations in 1996, moved them onto their own domain in 2001, and ran the biggest archive of the form on the web for seve |
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Vote for the Worst 📖 2004 - 2013 most sites that hated a television show reviewed it. this one tried to break it. vote for the worst picked the weakest contestant on american idol every week and told its readers to vote for that person, on the theory that a talent competition decided by phone-in popularity was not really a talent c |
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Star Wars Kid 📖 2003 - 2013 a fourteen year old in trois-rivieres filmed himself in a school studio in november 2002 and left the tape behind. classmates found it, made a file of it and put it online on 14 april 2003, and by 2006 it was estimated at more than nine hundred million views, nearly all of them before youtube existe |
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Newsweek (original print run) 📖 1933 - 2012 the us news weekly that lived in the same tier as time for 79 years. thomas martyn started it on 17 february 1933. washington post company owned it from 1961 until august 2010, when they sold to audio-tech billionaire sidney harman for one dollar plus liabilities. harman merged it into the newsweek |
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Pobieraczek.pl 📖 2008 - 2012 thirty thousand complaints arrived in the first nine months and the service ran for three more years after that. pobieraczek sold ten free days of downloading that turned into a paid subscription unless you deleted your account before the clock ran out, then it sent the invoices. the polish competit |
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Elder Pastitsios 📖 2011 - 2012 a golden dawn mp put a question to the greek justice minister about a facebook page on 17 september 2012. four days later the man who ran it was arrested for malicious blasphemy, and the page, which had spent about a year photoshopping a revered orthodox monk into a tray of pastitsio, never came bac |
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Openbook 📖 2010 - 2012 three people in san francisco spent an afternoon in may 2010 wiring up the search api that facebook had opened three weeks earlier, and produced a site where you could read the public status updates of everyone on facebook at once. six million page views in the first two weeks. the stated goal was t |
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WeiweiCam 📖 2012 - 2012 forty six hours is the entire run. ai weiwei installed four webcams in his beijing house on the first anniversary of his detention, aimed one of them at his own bed, and streamed the feed to anyone who wanted to look. 5.2 million people looked. then the police called and told him to switch it off, a |
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Encyclopædia Britannica (print) 📖 1768 - 2012 the english-speaking world's reference set for two and a half centuries. first fascicle published in edinburgh in 1768. the 2010 fifteenth-edition set, 32 volumes, 32,640 pages, was the last printed run. britannica announced the end of print on march 13 2012 and went online-only. the brand survives |
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Rotten.com 📖 1996 - 2012 the original 1996 shock site. it ran for sixteen years from a single-word domain that soylent communications grabbed with a script. the final post landed in february 2012. the rap sheet famously included autopsy photos and the long-discredited diana crash images, presented with the same flat editori |
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Word Count Journal 📖 2007 - 2012 one word on your first day and two on your second gets you to 66,795 by the end of a non-leap year, more words than most novels, and that arithmetic was the entire product. by 31 may 2011 the sidebar counted 9,395 authors keeping 18,511 journals with 6,657,747 words between them, and a banner across |
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GamePro (print) 📖 1989 - 2011 the other big multi-platform us gaming print magazine of the genesis-snes generation. first issue april 1989, founded by patrick ferrell and leeanne mcdermott under idg. peaked at around 300,000 monthly subscribers in the 90s. monthly print ended october 2011, one quarterly issue followed, then the |
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It Died 📖 2008 - 2011 glenn fleishman spent fifteen months writing down the closing dates of other people's web services, then stopped in february 2010 and let the registration go the following autumn. by late november 2011 itdied.com was serving a bare interstitial that read click here to proceed. the address went next |
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Google Image Labeler 📖 2006 - 2011 a browser game google launched on 31 august 2006, built on the esp game that luis von ahn had designed at carnegie mellon. it put you and an anonymous stranger in front of the same picture with ninety seconds on the clock, and you scored only when the two of you typed the same word. the point was ne |
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The Psycho Ex-Wife 📖 2007 - 2011 judge diane gibbons told anthony morelli to take down that website from the bench in a bucks county custody hearing on 6 june 2011, and banned him from naming his ex-wife on any public media. two more posts went up within two days, one of them saying the judge had no say over what he wrote there. th |
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Stile Project 📖 1999 - 2010 jay stile's shock-aggregator site, registered october 3, 1999. ran for eleven years as part of the english-language shock canon alongside rotten.com and ogrish. won two webby awards in 2000 for the "weird" category, including the people's voice. sold off on december 2, 2010, after which the buyer fl |
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Piratbyrån 📖 2003 - 2010 the tracker came second. a swedish anti-copyright think tank set itself up on 1 august 2003 to argue with the record industry in public, and one of the things it built to make the argument concrete was the pirate bay, handed off within about a year to run on its own. police carried out the servers o |
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Swatch Internet Time (.beats) 📖 1998 - 2009 dormant swatch's 1998 attempt to replace timezones for the internet age. the day was divided into 1000 beats. each beat was about 86 seconds. the meridian was swatch HQ in biel, switzerland. they made watches that displayed beats. it was on irc and icq for a few years as a novelty. it died quietly when nobo |
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Hampsterdance 📖 1997 - 2009 hampsterdance was the first internet meme that crossed from email forwards into pop culture. deidre lacarte built it in august 1997 on geocities, three hundred and ninety-two animated hamster gifs over a sped-up loop from disney's 1973 robin hood. it sat at eight hundred visits for eighteen months, |
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Popular Science Predictions Exchange 📖 2007 - 2009 33,339 people were holding pop dollars when popular science closed its prediction market on 31 may 2009, a shade under two years after opening it. you got 250,000 of the currency for signing up and another 10,000 for filling in a survey, then staked it on whether facebook would go public or a touchs |
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Otoko no Ko Bokujou 📖 2009 - 2009 six days. cyberagent opened a marriage-hunting service on japanese mobile phones on 13 may 2009 that let women register the men they knew, display them as cattle or horses, and pass the collection around to friends. two separate objections landed within forty-eight hours, one about calling men anima |
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Comedy 23/6 📖 2007 - 2009 barry diller's iac and arianna huffington went into the satire business together in november 2007 and were out of it fifteen months later. 23/6 hired daily show writers and new york comedians to turn the day's news inside out, under a name that promised an hour and a day less than round-the-clock. i |
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Electronic Gaming Monthly (print) 📖 1989 - 2009 the multi-platform us gaming print magazine, twenty years on newsstands. founded march 31 1989 by steve harris under sendai publications. ziff-davis took over after issue 83 in 1996 and ran it through the playstation and xbox generations into the wii era. shut by ziff-davis on january 6 2009 alongsi |
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Whopper Sacrifice 📖 2009 - 2009 233,906 friendships were ended in ten days of january 2009, at a rate of ten per free sandwich. facebook had asked the agency to stop notifying people that they had been traded for a whopper, and when the notices kept going out it switched the feature off and burger king withdrew the app. it is the |
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PC Magazine (print) 📖 1982 - 2009 ziff-davis's flagship pc magazine, the one whose ad-page count in any given month of 1996 was thicker than most short novels. founded march 1982 by david bunnell and cheryl woodard with jim edlin alongside. peaked at 1.2 million paid subscribers in the late 1990s when it was the largest paid compute |
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Hugo the TV Troll 📖 1990 - 2009 a child dialed a number and then steered a cartoon troll across a live television broadcast by pressing digits on the handset. the danish company behind it built its own hardware to turn dial tones into game commands, then licensed the format into more than forty countries where local broadcasters s |
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MOPy fish 📖 1997 - 2008 ten million downloads by the year 2000 and an entry in the guinness book, for a screensaver whose actual job was to make you print more. hewlett-packard paid a london agency to build a virtual fish that earned points every time you sent an original document to the printer, and sulked when you did no |
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lonelygirl15 📖 2006 - 2008 lonelygirl15 launched 16 june 2006 as a youtube vlog from bree avery, a homeschooled teenager. the videos pulled into a slowly-developing cult conspiracy storyline across the summer. september 2006 the los angeles times revealed bree was fictional, played by actress jessica lee rose. instead of kill |
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The Lifehouse Method 📖 2007 - 2008 pete townshend wrote lifehouse in 1971 as a story about music generated from a person's own data, and the who could not build it because the machines did not exist yet. in april 2007 he put those machines on a website with the composer lawrence ball and the developer dave snowdon, and about 10,500 p |
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Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 📖 1978 - 2007 a bad-movie awards outfit started in 1978 by two former ushers from a pasadena theater, which makes it older than the golden raspberries and a great deal older than its own website. it ran online from 1997, handed out prizes for worst fake accent and worst on-screen hairstyle, and never held a cerem |
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NetAid 📖 1999 - 2007 cisco and the un development programme built an anti poverty campaign around a webcast and put it on three stages across two continents at once on 9 october 1999. david bowie played wembley while bono played new jersey, and the site pushed 2,494,135 streams in a single day, which was the largest int |
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Esuvee 📖 2005 - 2007 in january 2005 the attorneys general of every american state put twenty-seven million dollars into a campaign about suv rollovers, and the money came out of a fifty-one and a half million dollar settlement with ford over how it had sold and advertised its own suvs. what they bought was a mascot. th |
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All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP 📖 2006 - 2006 nine posts and one rap video, across twenty four days. two characters called charlie and jeremy spent late november 2006 writing in invented slang about how badly jeremy wanted a psp for christmas, and readers who thought the slang was too strange ran a whois on the domain and found a st. louis mark |
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Save Toby 📖 2005 - 2006 save toby was a january 2005 hoax page where two anonymous webmasters claimed they would cook and eat a pet rabbit named toby if the internet did not send them $50,000. they never hit the goal, they did pull in more than $24,000, they did land on nbc nightly news in april 2005, and they did not eat |
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Ogrish.com 📖 2000 - 2006 ogrish was the post-rotten shock site of the 2000-2006 window. the domain registered june 18, 2000. its peak content was war footage and execution videos from iraq, hosted with the same flat catalog voice the dial-up shock canon had used since the 90s. on october 31, 2006 the operators wound the bra |
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Captain Copyright 📖 2006 - 2006 captain copyright was a cartoon superhero that access copyright, the canadian agency which collects reproduction royalties for publishers and writers, sent into elementary schools in may 2006 with lesson plans covering grades one through eight. teachers and librarians read the lesson plans and notic |
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Doctor Fun 📖 1993 - 2006 520 weeks was the number dave farley promised himself, and he hit it, though ten years' worth of weeks took nearly thirteen calendar years to deliver. doctor fun was a single-panel gag cartoon posted from a university of chicago library job starting 24 september 1993, which makes it the first comic |
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Bonsai Kitten 📖 2000 - 2006 tens of thousands of furious emails had arrived by february 2001, the boston fbi field office served mit with a grand jury subpoena, and the humane society asked for the site to come down whether or not any of it was real. none of it was real. an mit graduate student had put bonsai kitten online tha |
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COMDEX 📖 1979 - 2005 comdex opened in 1979 as an exhibition for computer dealers and grew into the week every november when the entire industry moved to las vegas. two hundred and twenty-five thousand people came in 1996. by november 2003 the same hall held five hundred exhibitors and forty thousand visitors, and the fo |
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Mindpixel 📖 2000 - 2005 chris mckinstry spent five years asking volunteers to write one-line statements that any adult would answer the same way, then had other volunteers vote on whether they were true. by january 2004 there were 1.4 million of them, and everybody who had written one held a promise of shares in whatever t |
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Banner Ad Museum 📖 2000 - 2005 in september 2005 a crawler that had been visiting almost every week started getting a 404 where a museum used to be. for five years banneradmuseum.com had collected the 468 by 60 rectangle as an art form, sorted by industry and by size, with a guestbook at the bottom and an open call for guest cura |
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MarthaTalks.com 📖 2003 - 2005 martha stewart was indicted on 4 june 2003 and had a website of her own up the same day. it carried her own letters alongside the briefs her lawyers filed, and took 20,000 messages from readers in its first 24 hours. the last thing posted to it was written from a federal prison at christmas 2004, an |
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TeleGarden 📖 1995 - 2004 ken goldberg and joseph santarromana pointed an industrial robot arm at a tray of soil in 1995 and handed the controls to anyone with a web browser. you could drive it over the dirt to drop a seed or water somebody else's seedling. the installation moved from southern california to the lobby of the |
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TheSpark.com 📖 1999 - 2004 thespark was four harvard students being funny on the web in 1999. it ran snarky personality quizzes and humor pieces, and almost as a side project it published study guides it called sparknotes. the study guides outgrew the jokes. barnes & noble bought the lot for about three thousand dollars, kept |
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goatse.cx 📖 1999 - 2004 the shock url that ran for five years on christmas island's .cx cctld. one image, one filename, hundreds of millions of links sent under false labels. the christmas island internet administration finally killed the domain on 14 january 2004 after a single resident filed a complaint. mirrors carried |
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Ananova 📖 2000 - 2010 ananova was a computer-generated newsreader with green hair, launched in 2000 by the uk press association and sold to orange for ninety-five million pounds within months. she read the day's headlines in a synthetic voice, and for a couple of years she was the internet's idea of the future of news. t |
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JenniCam 📖 1996 - 2003 jennicam was a 24/7 webcam jennifer ringley pointed at her dickinson college dorm room on 14 april 1996. the image refreshed every three minutes and ran for seven years and eight months. at peak it drew somewhere between three and four million daily viewers. paypal's 2003 anti-nudity policy cut her |
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Modern Humorist 📖 2000 - 2003 dormant modern humorist was a comedy web magazine run out of dumbo in brooklyn by john aboud and michael colton, two harvard lampoon alumni who turned a parody of talk magazine into a company with a board and a chief executive. it published every weekday for three years and produced three books along the wa |
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PsychoExGirlfriend.com 📖 2001 - 2003 fifty voicemail messages, each between forty-five seconds and two minutes, uploaded in the spring of 2001 by a man calling himself mark. it became one of the most visited non-commercial sites on the web inside a month, put him on good morning america, and had been publicly accused of being an advert |
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iLoo 📖 2003 - 2003 msn uk announced on 30 april 2003 that it was building a portable toilet with a wireless broadband connection and a screen in it, for the british summer festival circuit. the story went around the world in about a day. on 12 may microsoft said the whole thing had been a hoax by its british office an |
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TVGoHome 📖 1999 - 2003 tvgohome was the satirical fake tv listings site charlie brooker ran from september 1999 to april 2003, formatted to mock the british radio times print magazine. each issue was a week of imaginary show listings written in mean and surreal style, with real public figures named and humiliated inside i |
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us 📖 1991 - 2003 the sentence was printed into a mega drive shooter in july 1991 by somebody at toaplan who did not speak much english, and it sat there for a decade before anyone laughed at it. forums kept it alive as a quotation, then on 16 february 2001 a newgrounds user called bad_crc set a techno remix of the a |
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ManBeef.com 📖 2001 - 2002 manbeef.com went up on 4 january 2001 selling human flesh by the cut, with recipes underneath and a merchandise page at the back, and none of it was real. the outrage traveled by chain email and petition, which carried the site to around half a million hits a day. the fda sent investigators and they |
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Dancing Baby 📖 1996 - 2002 the dancing baby was never meant to be seen by the public. it was a sample file bundled with character studio in august 1996 to show off what the software could do to a skeleton. a lucasarts animator pulled it out, emailed it around, somebody turned it into a gif, and by 1997 it was on screens in co |
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3D Maze 📖 1995 - 2001 3d maze is what your monitor did when you walked away from it. a randomly generated brick corridor with a camera moving through it on its own, and a translucent smiley face waiting at the exit. it existed to prove a home pc could render 3d at all, and it ended up being the most watched piece of comp |
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Bert is Evil 📖 1997 - 2001 bert is evil went up on 30 march 1997, a page of manufactured photographic evidence that the sesame street character had been present at the worst events of the century. it won a webby for best weird website in 1998, then got too expensive to host, so dino ignacio zipped it up and handed it to volun |
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Trojan Room coffee pot 📖 1991 - 2001 the trojan room coffee pot was the world's first webcam. two cambridge researchers, quentin stafford-fraser and paul jardetzky, pointed a frame-grabber camera at a filter machine in 1991 so nobody would walk down the hall to an empty pot. the feed went to office desktops first, then to the open web |
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dotDoomed.com 📖 2001 - 2001 eighty thousand ratings in six months, all of them answering one question: is this company doomed or is it doing well. dotdoomed.com kept an alphabetical directory of dot-coms with a five point scale under each one and published a daily list of winners and losers off the votes. whoever made it staye |
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Mahir "I Kiss You" 📖 1999 - 2001 mahir cagri's homepage was one of the first things the whole internet forwarded to itself for a laugh. a man from izmir put up a cheerful, broken-english page on a free host in 1999, someone copied and doctored it, and the altered version pulled hundreds of thousands of views a day by email alone. t |
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The Beast 📖 2001 - 2001 microsoft hid a game inside the credits of an a.i. trailer and waited for someone to notice a therapist who did not exist. about a hundred people found it in the first weeks. then ain't it cool news linked to it and five thousand strangers organized themselves into a yahoo group called the cloudmake |
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Mr. T Ate My Balls 📖 1996 - 2001 somebody smashed the glass out of an exit sign on a dorm floor at the university of illinois in the spring of 1996 and wrote four words on it. nehal patel put those words under a picture of mr. t with a thought balloon, and for four years every bored student on the web made their own version. the pa |
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Life magazine 📖 1936 - 2000 the american photojournalism weekly of record. henry luce launched it on 23 november 1936 and by the 1950s it was reaching roughly a quarter of the united states. television and mail-only subscriptions killed the weekly by december 1972. a monthly returned in october 1978 and ran until may 2000. a s |
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Good Times Virus Hoax 📖 1994 - 2000 good times was an email that warned you about an email. it showed up in november 1994, described a virus that could not exist, and asked you to forward the warning to everyone you knew. the us department of energy debunked it three weeks later and it kept circulating for another six years anyway. it |
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Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer 📖 1996 - 2000 a mailing list with five jennifers on it produced one line of complaint in 1996, and jennifer farwell went and built the website. the society for preventing parents from naming their children jennifer ran four years, pulled more than two million visitors and collected every cool site award its era h |
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Dunkindonuts.org 📖 1997 - 1999 a twenty-five year old schoolteacher in hamden, connecticut could not get one percent milk at the dunkin' donuts near him in 1997, so he registered the company's name under .org and opened it to everybody else who had a complaint. customers wrote in and so did employees. on some search engines the . |
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Our First Time 📖 1998 - 1998 a website went up in 1998 calling itself a free educational public service and announcing that two eighteen year olds would lose their virginity on a live broadcast at 9pm on 4 august. it pulled enough traffic to crash its own servers and got carried by press on several continents without paying for |
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Psychic Friends Network 📖 1991 - 1998 a baltimore marketing company put dionne warwick in front of a thirty minute infomercial and pointed the viewers at a 1-900 number staffed by around two thousand psychics working from home. it charged 3.99 a minute and at its height it took in something between a hundred and a hundred and twenty fiv |