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...remember my first viral video. The year was 2001, and I was a fresh-faced teenager with my first high-speed Internet connection. Someone showed me a Flash animation featuring 1980s Japanese video-game images repurposed into a techno-music montage. Or something. I'm not really sure. I didn't understand All Your Base Are Belong To Us then, and I don't understand it now, but I can't deny its Internet significance. All I remember is that people wouldn't stop saying "Somebody set up us the bomb" for at least a week...
Since then, I have become thoroughly entrenched in Internet pop culture. (I'm pretty sure that half my workday is spent exchanging YouTube videos with co-workers, but don't tell anyone.) There was the Star Wars Kid (2002); Homestar Runner (which I saw in 2003-04); and Tom Cruise's Scientology video (2008). When a friend refused to stop singing "Peanut Butter Jelly Time," I didn't speak to her for three days because whenever I did she would sing it, and the song would get stuck in my head. But that was in 2002, and I haven...
Advertising copywriter Greg Rutter has compiled everything great about the Internet and put that on one Web page. Youshouldhaveseenthis.com is a list of 99 videos and websites that any self-respecting Internet addict needs to see - and probably already...
...have a lot of free time, here are the best things the Internet has to offer: • Animal videos: 11 • Animal videos that should come with a warning because they're too adorable and will make you cry at work: 1 • People who injure themselves: 6 • People who injure other people: 3 • Children who will grow to resent their parents for putting embarrassing footage of them on the Internet: 9 • Things that are funny because they're from the '80s: 6 • Home-shopping TV screwups: 2 • Sports videos: 2 • Acts...
That's it. You've now seen everything that's on the Internet. There's nothing left to do except check Facebook...