Internet time machine / 2013

2013, kept in the archive.

Backdrop

The Internet in 2013

Google Reader farewell page masthead.

Year reference

Google Reader’s farewell

The reader disappeared as feeds took over discovery.

Source: Google Reader Team
  • Vine’s six-second loop made the punchline, the reaction, and the replay into a new kind of native video grammar.
  • Mobile-first apps were no longer side channels; they were the places where formats began before spreading everywhere else.
Read the Internet Archive’s Vine collection

Archive order

Archive picks

01

Kabosu in Atsuko Sato’s original Doge photograph

Meme · Image macro and internet dialect

Doge

Such face. Very wow. Much new grammar.

image macrodogstumblr
Archive score97

02

The Harlem Shake video preview

Video · Thirty-second jump-cut dance format

The Harlem Shake

One person in a helmet. A bass drop. Then the entire room loses its mind.

youtubedanceremix
Archive score95

03

What Does the Fox Say? video preview

Video · Comedy music video

What Does the Fox Say?

A Norwegian comedy duo asked a perfectly normal animal question and answered it with noises nobody needed.

youtubemusic videocomedy
Archive score94

04

How Animals Eat Their Food video preview

Video · Physical-comedy animal sketch

How Animals Eat Their Food

One roommate ate salad normally while the other demonstrated why a rhinoceros should never be invited to dinner.

youtubecomedyphysical comedy
Archive score92

05

YOLO video preview

Video · Comedy rap and safety-paranoia parody

YOLO

The Lonely Island heard “you only live once” and responded: never leave the house.

youtubecomedy rapsnl digital short
Archive score91