Internet time machine / 2005

2005 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

Lazy Sunday video preview

Video · SNL digital short and YouTube breakthrough

Lazy Sunday

Cupcakes, Narnia, Google Maps, and the point where a TV sketch became a link everyone had to send.

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Archive score96

02

Video · Independent Flash animation

Charlie the Unicorn

“Shun the non-believer.” A deeply tired unicorn went to Candy Mountain and lost a kidney.

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Archive score94

03

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA video preview

Video · Animated remix

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA

He-Man sang “What’s Up,” and the web never quite recovered.

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Archive score93