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Instant coffee whipped for twenty minutes into a foam because there was nothing else to do. Every kitchen on Earth made it once, in April, and none made it twice.

The investigative YouTuber's run of videos on celebrity and political memecoins, from the Hawk Tuah token in December 2024 through the Libra and Official Trump launches of early 2025, each treated by the trenches as an event in its own right: charts were said to move on the upload. The method is interviews with the people behind a launch and on-chain records read aloud. Promoters learned to dread the call.

A filter coffee machine in the Trojan Room of the Cambridge computer lab, filmed by a camera so that researchers could see whether the pot was full before walking to it. It reached the web on 22 November 1993 and became the first livestream. The record's entry for a coffee pot with a global audience.

Going into the office long enough to badge in, get a coffee and be seen, then leaving to work from home. The return-to-office era's quietest protest, named in a survey and practised in every lobby.

Woodcut suns, swirling coffee steam, terracotta, ochre and a vaguely Aztec border on a chai latte cup — Global Village Coffeehouse — as CARI's 2020 name for the 1990s aesthetic of Starbucks, Putumayo compilations and every ethically sourced label. The record's entry for the look that smelled of cinnamon.