Internet time machine / 2007

2007 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

Keyboard Cat video preview

Video · Classic reaction

Keyboard Cat

Play him off, Keyboard Cat.

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Archive score98

02

Leave Britney Alone! video preview

Video · Viral monologue

Leave Britney Alone!

A webcam plea became a permanent piece of internet vocabulary.

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Archive score95

03

Chocolate Rain video preview

Video · YouTube classic

Chocolate Rain

“I move away from the mic to breathe in.”

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Archive score94

04

Charlie Bit My Finger video preview

Video · Early YouTube classic

Charlie Bit My Finger

A 55-second family clip became the definition of “viral video.”

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Archive score92

05

Meme · Exploitable image

Disaster Girl

The smile that suggested she had planned all of it.

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Archive score90

06

Video · Local-news classic

I Like Turtles

A local-news interview received the only answer it needed.

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Archive score88