01
Strong Bad Email
A masked wrestler answered email on a fake computer in a Flash series that grew into a major comedy world.
Archive score97
Internet archive / 2001
Internet moments from 2001
Backdrop
The Internet in 2001
Year reference
Wikipedia’s early homepageCollaborative knowledge was still an experiment.
Source: Wikimedia Commons- Wikipedia launched, making collaborative knowledge a daily web habit rather than a radical experiment.
- Broadband was spreading slowly, but the web still rewarded sites people returned to on purpose: Flash cartoons, forums, and fan communities.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Hyakugojyuuichi!!
A frantic Flash collage turned a Japanese Pokémon ending into an intentionally nonsensical new kind of web joke.
Archive score91
03
Pipe Dream
Steel balls race through impossible PVC instruments, turning a computer animation into a tiny factory concert.
Archive score91
04
Where's Your Head At
A bland office becomes a panic dream when coworkers reveal chimpanzee heads.
Archive score91
05
Because I Got High
Afroman turns one refrain into an escalating chain of everyday plans falling apart.
Archive score90
06
Neurotically Yours
A goth writer and her permanently aggravated squirrel turned a personal webcomic into a long-running online complaint department.
Archive score89
07
The PriceMaster
A masked yard-sale oracle turns every five-dollar bargain into a fifty-thousand-dollar proclamation: “THE PRICEMASTER HAS SPOKEN.”
Archive score88
08
Odd Todd: Laid-Off: A Day in the Life
Odd Todd’s laid-off narrator turned a difficult day into a sharply observed early-web character video.
Archive score86
09
The $20,000 Zig
An All Your Base parody turned an early-web quote into a bargain-bin adventure.
Archive score77
010
B
One low-effort Flash submission turned the letter B into a collaborative internet non sequitur.
Archive score77
011
The Demented Cartoon Movie
David Firth’s early Flash feature treats cartoon logic as permission for every gag to get stranger than the last.
Archive score76