01
Numa Numa
Before reaction videos, there was one guy having the time of his life at a webcam.
Archive score99
Internet time machine / 2004
2004, kept in the archive.
Backdrop
The Internet in 2004
Year reference
Firefox 1.0The open web had a mass-market alternative.
Source: Mozilla via Wikimedia Commons- Facebook launched at Harvard while MySpace expanded the profile-driven social web beyond early adopters.
- “Web 2.0” became shorthand for a web built around participation, comments, tags, and users making the thing together.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Salad Fingers
“I like rusty spoons.”
Archive score96
03
Magical Trevor
A tiny wizard, a disappearing cow, and one relentlessly cheerful loop made nonsense feel like a complete genre.
Archive score94
04
Experimental Film
Strong Sad and The Cheat made an artsy music video, then treated its collapsing film grammar like a very serious production problem.
Archive score93
05
The Llama Song
A llama, a duck, a potato, and one extremely committed nonsense song made Flash feel like its own tiny musical genre.
Archive score92
06
Tron Guy
A handmade light-up suit became a perfect snapshot of the web discovering its own people.
Archive score89