28 born · 7 peaked · 2 died
Born in 1997 28
- ●1-ClickAmazon's ordering button, introduced in 1997, that charges a saved card and posts to a sa…
- ●AGIArtificial general intelligence — a machine that can do any intellectual task a human can…
- ☠AIMScreen names, away messages, the door-opening sound. Twenty years of teenage life logged …
- ●AimbotA cheat program that aims for the player, first written for Quake in 1997 and since then …
- ☠Away MessageA short text left behind when you stepped away, usually song lyrics chosen to be read by …
- ☠Bert Is EvilA Sesame Street puppet photoshopped next to history's villains. Retired by its creator in…
- ☠Buddy ListA short list of people who might be online right now. Every social graph since has been a…
- ↺ClippyAn animated paperclip that interrupted you. Hated in life, beloved in death — the earlies…
- ☠Cursor TrailA comet of stars following your mouse across someone's page about horses. Pointless, deli…
- ↺DecoraDozens of hair clips, layered neon, plastic toys pinned to a cardigan, and a colour count…
- ◐DisruptionDestroying an industry and calling it progress — disruption — from a 1997 business theory…
- ●Fantasy FootballThe game of drafting real NFL players onto an imaginary roster and scoring their weekly s…
- ↺Final Fantasy VIIThe role-playing game that made the genre mainstream in the West, sold the PlayStation as…
- ↺GoldenEye 007A film licence that became the console's first great multiplayer shooter: four players on…
- ●GrindingDoing a repetitive task for a reward — the grind — from MMO levelling into work, gym and …
- ☠Haxor'Hacker', in leetspeak — 'h4x0r' — as the late-1990s word for a skilled computer user, sa…
- ●Incel'Involuntary celibate' — coined in 1997 by a woman as a support-group name, and taken ove…
- ●NerfTo weaken something in a patch, from the foam toy. Now used about tax policy by people wh…
- ◐OwnedDefeated, humiliated, beaten completely — 'owned' — from hackers taking over a machine to…
- ●Password ManagerThe app that remembers your passwords so you can stop using the same one with a 1 on the …
- ☠SixDegreesThe first social network, profile and friends list and all, seven years before anyone was…
- ▲SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that matters, with the first comment moderation system that worked.…
- ▲Snake (Nokia)A line of pixels eating dots and growing longer on a monochrome phone screen. Nokia shipp…
- ▲T9'Text on 9 keys' — the predictive typing on a numeric keypad, from 1997, that let a perso…
- ●TibiaA tile-based MMORPG from a group of German students, one of the oldest still running, wit…
- ◐Ultima OnlineThe first MMORPG to reach a hundred thousand subscribers, with a player-driven economy, h…
- ●Wi-FiWireless local networking under the IEEE 802.11 standard, published in 1997 and given the…
- ↺WinampIt really whipped the llama's ass. Killed by AOL in 2013, bought by a Belgian company nob…
Peaked in 1997 7
- ☠Blink TagText that flashed on and off. Its own inventor apologised for it, and browsers took ninet…
- ▲Command & ConquerA real-time strategy game with live-action cutscenes, a bald cult leader called Kane, and…
- ▲Duke Nukem 3DA shooter with a wisecracking hero in a vest, strippers, a toilet you could drink from an…
- ☠Netscape Now ButtonA badge insisting the page looked better in the browser you were probably already using. …
- ▲Quakeid Software's true-3D follow-up to Doom, with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack and, from Dece…
- ●Super Mario 64The first 3D platformer that worked, with an analogue stick built for it and a castle ful…
- ↺TamagotchiThe egg-shaped keychain pet from Bandai, released in Japan in November 1996, that needed …