15 born · 4 peaked · 0 died
Born in 1994 15
- ☠Blink TagText that flashed on and off. Its own inventor apologised for it, and browsers took ninet…
- ☠Chain EmailA message threatening bad luck unless forwarded to ten people. Did not die; it changed ho…
- ●Comic SansThe friendly, wobbly typeface Vincent Connare drew for Microsoft in 1994 to fit a cartoon…
- ◐Friend ZoneThe place where a person is kept as a friend by someone they wanted more from — the frien…
- ☠GeoCitiesThirty-eight million personal pages, deleted on a Monday. The largest single act of cultu…
- ●Gish GallopMaking more bad arguments than can be answered in the time. Coined about a creationist an…
- ●KayfabeWrestling's word for the pretence that the show is real — kayfabe — old carnival slang th…
- ▲LeetspeakNumbers standing in for letters to evade filters and signal membership. Ended when your a…
- ☠Netscape NavigatorThe browser that was the web in 1995 — 80 per cent of users, a $2 billion IPO that starte…
- ▲QuickCamThe Connectix QuickCam, a grey plastic ball on a stand, sold for $99 in 1994 and captured…
- ●SnopesThe internet's original urban-legend reference desk, founded in 1994 to debunk email hoax…
- ●SpeedrunFinishing a game as fast as possible, timed and ruled. The one form of play that turned i…
- ↺WebringSites linking to each other in a circle, on purpose, with no algorithm involved. Currentl…
- ☠Yahoo DirectoryTwo graduate students listing every website by hand, in categories. Worked until the web …
- ◐Yahoo!The directory of websites two Stanford students started in February 1994, first under the…
Peaked in 1994 4
- ●Console WarThe recurring argument over which company's box is better, waged by children in playgroun…
- ↺DoomThe first-person shooter that defined the phrase, uploaded as shareware to a university F…
- ▲MosaicThe browser from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, written by Marc And…
- ☠SimCityThe city-building game that made zoning a hobby and 'Sim' a prefix. Its trend moment ran …
Died in 1994 0
Nothing died. A good year.