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Doge
Such face. Very wow. Much new grammar.
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Internet archive / 2013
Internet moments from 2013
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The Internet in 2013
Year reference
Google Reader’s farewellThe reader disappeared as feeds took over discovery.
Source: Google Reader Team- Vine’s six-second loop made the punchline, the reaction, and the replay into a new kind of native video grammar.
- Mobile-first apps were no longer side channels; they were the places where formats began before spreading everywhere else.
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Trails from 2013
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02
This Is Fine
A dog sat calmly in a burning room and gave the internet its shortest response to catastrophe.
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03
The Harlem Shake
One person in a helmet. A bass drop. Then the entire room loses its mind.
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04
What Does the Fox Say?
A Norwegian comedy duo asked what sound a fox makes and answered with invented noises.
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05
THE NFL — A Bad Lip Reading
Football’s sideline chatter became egg rolls, orange peanuts, and the loudest possible request for a cookie.
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06
Twitter / XOreo’s “Dunk in the Dark”
The Super Bowl went dark; Oreo needed one cookie and one extremely good sentence.
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07
Flappy Bird
A one-button bird game became a global hit, then disappeared from app stores at the height of its popularity.
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The NFL: A Bad Lip Reading
NFL players were not saying this. That was the entire joke.
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09
How Animals Eat Their Food
One roommate ate salad normally while the other demonstrated why a rhinoceros should never be invited to dinner.
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Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal
A spoonful of cereal met a movie star’s perfectly timed refusal.
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Ship My Pants
A Kmart ad turned “ship my pants” into an escalating, cheerful double entendre.
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012
Side Eyeing Chloe
One tiny side-eye became the internet’s compact reply to somebody else’s very big reaction.
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013
Continental Breakfast
The hotel had free Wi-Fi, room 237, and a continental breakfast that became suspiciously important.
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014
YOLO
The Lonely Island heard “you only live once” and responded: never leave the house.
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015
Horse_ebooks Wasn’t a Bot
The beloved spam bot was revealed to be people performing a very convincing internet mystery.
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The First Honest Cable Company
The cable-company parody that said the quiet part out loud about hidden fees, impossible appointments, and “choice.”
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017
Girls Don’t Poop
A woman in a cocktail dress explained, with absurd confidence, that women do not poop—and therefore need Poo~Pourri.
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