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Keyboard Cat
Play him off, Keyboard Cat.
Internet time machine / 2007
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Year reference
The original iPhoneThe internet was about to live in your hand.
Source: Apple NewsroomArchive order
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Play him off, Keyboard Cat.
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A mysterious tick turned into “Snape, Snape, Severus Snape” and lodged itself in a generation’s brain.
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A webcam plea became a permanent piece of internet vocabulary.
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Cunningham Muffins had exciting new flavors, and every one was a worse idea than the last.
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“I move away from the mic to breathe in.”
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A 55-second family clip became the definition of “viral video.”
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The smile that suggested she had planned all of it.
08

A local-news interview received the only answer it needed.