Internet time machine / 2002

2002 was a year the internet learned to perform for itself.

Webcams became stages, weird songs became shared language, and one clip could travel everywhere before anyone called it a content strategy.

Archive order

The moments everyone kept sending

01

Video · Pre-YouTube viral video

Star Wars Kid

One of the first videos to prove that the internet could make a private moment global overnight.

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Archive score98

02

Video · Flash animation and earworm

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

A dancing banana and four words were enough to permanently alter snack-time vocabulary.

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Archive score96