01
Lazy Sunday
Cupcakes, Narnia, Google Maps, and the point where a TV sketch became a link everyone had to send.
Archive score96
Internet time machine / 2005
2005, kept in the archive.
Backdrop
The Internet in 2005
Year reference
Me at the zooThe first YouTube upload made the point quietly.
Source: Jawed Karim on YouTube- YouTube launched, giving ordinary people a simple place to upload, find, and embed video.
- The web was becoming a platform for applications and user-made media instead of a collection of static pages.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Charlie the Unicorn
“Shun the non-believer.” A deeply tired unicorn went to Candy Mountain and lost a kidney.
Archive score94
03
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA
He-Man sang “What’s Up,” and the web never quite recovered.
Archive score93
04
Leeroy Jenkins
A raid plan, a plate of chicken, and the loudest possible decision to ignore both.
Archive score92
05
Ask a Ninja
A masked ninja answered viewer questions with jump cuts, terrible advice, and a promise to kill you soon.
Archive score90
06
Big Box Mart
One giant discount store promised everything cheap—until the joke followed the price tag all the way home.
Archive score87