01
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
A disastrously translated game line escaped its cutscene and took over the early web.
Archive score98
Internet time machine / 2000
2000, kept in the archive.
Backdrop
The Internet in 2000
Year reference
Y2K.govA networked world braced for the date change.
Source: President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion- The dot-com boom was collapsing, but forums, Flash sites, and peer-to-peer sharing were teaching people that the web had its own strange culture.
- Search, message boards, and home pages made remix jokes easy to discover and pass along.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Homestar Runner
An armless athlete, a masked bully, and a pile of non sequiturs turned one Flash site into an early-web comedy universe.
Archive score96
03
3 Drunk Flies
Three flies, one beer can, and a frog who did not volunteer for the bit.
Archive score86