45 born · 18 peaked · 7 died
Born in 2000 45
- ●AMV (Anime Music Video)Fan-made videos that re-cut footage from anime out of its original order, lay a full song…
- ●AU'Alternate universe' — a fanfiction in which the characters are the same and everything e…
- ●Ace (FPS)Killing every member of the opposing team in a single round, in Counter-Strike from about…
- ●Alter'Old man', but really 'dude' or 'whoa' — the German interjection ('Alter!') that opens a …
- ●Baka'Idiot', 'fool' — the mildest Japanese insult, learned by anglophones from a thousand sub…
- ●BanhammerThe moderator's power of removal, as a tool. The only weapon in this record that the peop…
- ●Bare'A lot', 'very' — 'bare people', 'bare jokes' — as the Multicultural London English inten…
- ●Buff (British)Attractive — 'buff' — as the London slang word that predates 'peng' and means the same, a…
- ●ButtersUgly — 'butters' — as the London slang's cruellest adjective, with an etymology nobody ag…
- ●CAPTCHAThe 'prove you're not a robot' test — distorted words, then house numbers, then a grid of…
- ●ClutchWinning when it counts, against the odds — a clutch play, to clutch it — from sport into …
- ↺Diablo IIClick, loot, repeat, over a modem, in a dungeon crawler that defined the action RPG and r…
- ●Digga'Bro', 'dude' — the German vocative from Hamburg hip-hop of the 1990s ('Dicker', thick on…
- ◐Double PostPosting the same message twice by accident — the double post — as the forum era's small s…
- ●EndsOne's neighbourhood — 'my ends' — as the London slang word for home turf, and the record'…
- ●FFS'For f***'s sake' — British exasperation in three letters, typed about trains, weather an…
- ●FanonSomething so widely believed by fans that it feels official and is not — fanon — as the c…
- ●GriefingRuining other players' fun within the rules. The distinction between griefing and playing…
- ◐Habbo HotelA pixel hotel where teenagers stood in rooms and talked. Blocked the pool in a famous rai…
- ↺Homestar RunnerA cartoon website with no adverts, no algorithm and a regular update schedule. The Strong…
- ●ILY'I love you' — in three letters, and 'ilysm' for 'so much' — as the affection of the text…
- ●Japanese www'www' — the Japanese internet's laugh, from 'warau', where each w is a ha and a row of th…
- ●LeecherSomeone who downloads without uploading — a leecher — as the file-sharing world's word fo…
- ↺LimeWireThe green lime that gave a generation both its music library and its viruses. Shut by inj…
- ▲MafiaboyThe handle of Michael Calce, a fifteen-year-old who used distributed denial-of-service at…
- ●MandemOne's group of male friends — 'the mandem' — with 'gyaldem' for the women, as the London …
- ↺Marvel vs. Capcom 2Three-on-three tag fighting with fifty-six characters, a jazz soundtrack about taking you…
- ●NSFW'Not safe for work' — the warning on a link that will get you fired, from early-2000s for…
- ●NVM'Never mind' — the withdrawal of a question you answered yourself, or a request you regre…
- ●NoobA new or bad player, from 'newbie' by way of 'n00b', established in Counter-Strike and fo…
- ●OP (Overpowered)'Overpowered' — too strong, unfair, in need of a nerf — as the gamer's complaint about a …
- ●Pls'Please', with the vowels removed — 'pls', 'plz' — as the request that is also slightly d…
- ▲PwnedDefeated, from a missed key. Kept alive past its natural span by a security website that …
- ●RNG'Random number generator' — luck, in a game, as a thing to blame: 'RNG hates me', 'RNGesu…
- ●Self-InsertA character who is the author, put into the story — the self-insert — as fanfiction's old…
- ●StanTo support obsessively. Began as a cautionary tale about a fan who drives into a river an…
- ●StickyA thread pinned to the top of a forum — a sticky — as the moderator's way of saying 'read…
- ●The SimsA dollhouse simulator in which small people speak gibberish, need the toilet and can be d…
- ●Thread HijackTaking over someone else's discussion with your own topic — the thread hijack — as the fo…
- ●Wey'Dude', 'mate' — the Mexican vocative (also 'güey'), attached to the end of every sentenc…
- ●Works on My MachineThe developer's defence when code fails for everyone else — 'works on my machine' — as th…
- ◐XDA laughing face made of letters — eyes squeezed shut, mouth open — that was every teenage…
- ●Yak ShavingDoing a small task that is necessary for a task that is necessary for a task, until you a…
- ●Yeah Nah'Yeah, nah' — the Australian and New Zealand 'no', which acknowledges the question before…
- ●kk'Okay' — twice, for some reason — as the gaming chat's acknowledgement, and the record's …
Peaked in 2000 18
- ↺88x31 ButtonA tiny rectangular badge linking to a friend's site or announcing your browser loyalties.…
- ☠A/S/LAge, sex, location, asked in that order of every stranger. Died when platforms began answ…
- ☠Ask JeevesA cartoon butler who took questions in full sentences and mostly misunderstood them. Ever…
- ▲Command & Conquer: Red AlertAn alternate-history Second World War in which Einstein removes Hitler and the Soviets in…
- ☠Cursor TrailA comet of stars following your mouse across someone's page about horses. Pointless, deli…
- ☠EncartaMicrosoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, launched in March 1993, which for a decade was where eve…
- ▲Half-LifeA physicist with a crowbar, a tram ride instead of a cutscene, and a story told without t…
- ●Heroes of Might and Magic IIITurn-based fantasy strategy on a hand-painted map, with hot-seat multiplayer that needed …
- ◐IMHOIn my humble opinion, preceding an opinion that was not. The H was contested from the sta…
- ◐IRCText channels with operators, kicks and bans, running continuously since 1988. Everything…
- ●LurkerSomeone who reads and never posts. The vast silent majority of every community, and the o…
- ●Mario PartyA board game with dice, stars and minigames that has ended more friendships than any othe…
- ☠NapsterEvery song on every hard drive in the world, indexed. Alive for twenty-five months and su…
- ☠Spacer GIFA one-pixel transparent image stretched to hold a layout together. The whole visual web w…
- ☠Splash PageA full-screen intro between you and the content, with a button reading 'Enter site' or 'S…
- ▲Starsiege: TribesA team shooter with jetpacks, enormous outdoor maps and vehicles, in which players discov…
- ●Top-Level DomainThe last part of a web address: .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, .mil, later the country cod…
- ☠Unreal TournamentThe arena shooter that shipped three weeks before Quake III Arena and split the deathmatc…
Died in 2000 7
- ▲MafiaboyThe handle of Michael Calce, a fifteen-year-old who used distributed denial-of-service at…
- ☠MahirA Turkish accordion player with a home page and the greeting 'I KISS YOU!!!!!'. The first…
- ▲MystA silent island of pre-rendered stills and puzzles, made by two brothers in Washington st…
- ☠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…
- ☠SixDegreesThe first social network, profile and friends list and all, seven years before anyone was…
- ▲The Oregon TrailA text-and-pixel simulation of the 1848 wagon route, written by three student teachers in…