01
Star Wars Kid
One of the first videos to prove that the internet could make a private moment global overnight.
Archive score98
Internet time machine / 2002
2002, kept in the archive.
Backdrop
The Internet in 2002
Year reference
FriendsterThe social graph became a familiar web idea.
Source: Friendster mark via Wikimedia Commons- Blogs and message boards were becoming the public diary and group-chat layer of the web.
- Friendster’s launch helped normalize the idea that your relationships could be organized into an online profile.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
A dancing banana and four words were enough to permanently alter snack-time vocabulary.
Archive score96
03
Weebl & Bob
Two egg-shaped weirdos wanted pie, argued in nonsense, and made dial-up constraints feel like a comedy style.
Archive score93
04
The Cheat Theme Song
A yellow blob got a theme song, learned Flash, and accidentally launched Homestar Runner’s fakely homemade-animation wing.
Archive score91