21 born · 15 peaked · 1 died
Born in 2002 21
- ☠America's ArmyA free tactical shooter published by the United States Army as a recruiting tool, in whic…
- ☠Battlefield 1942Sixty-four players, tanks, planes and boats on Second World War maps, in a game where the…
- ◐Colon Three:3 — a cat's mouth, sideways, as the emoticon for cuteness, mischief or a specific kind o…
- ●Existential RiskA risk that could wipe out humanity or permanently wreck its future, a category Bostrom d…
- ●FPLFantasy Premier League — the Premier League's official fantasy game, launched in 2002 and…
- ☠FriendsterThe first social network to be popular, and the first to be too slow to stay that way. Tu…
- ◐GunBoundWorms with cartoon tanks, wind and angle calculations, and avatars you dressed in bought …
- ●IDK'I don't know' — the three letters that answer most questions, and, said aloud as 'idk', …
- ↺Mall GothTripp pants, a Slipknot hoodie, chains, a spiked collar and a devotion to Hot Topic — the…
- ●NightcoreExisting songs remixed to a higher pitch, usually with a faster beat, almost always by fa…
- ●OTPOne true pairing. The couple you would defend to a stranger, and have.
- ☠Peanut Butter Jelly TimeA dancing banana that would not stop. Killed by a television sitcom using it, then by Fla…
- ◐Ragnarok OnlineA 2D-sprites-in-3D-world MMORPG based on a Korean comic, with a Norse setting and a sound…
- ◐ScreamerA video or game that lulls you and then screams — a screamer — as the early-2000s prank t…
- ●SelfieA photograph of yourself, by yourself, at arm's length. Word of the Year in 2013 and has …
- ☠SidekickThe flip-out-keyboard phone, sold by T-Mobile from October 2002, that was the first devic…
- ☠Star Wars KidA teenager swinging a golf-ball retriever like a lightsaber, leaked without his consent. …
- ◐The Game (You Just Lost)A game with one rule: if you think about The Game, you lose, and must announce it. Spread…
- ●TsundereA character type — hostile ('tsun tsun') on the outside, warm ('dere dere') underneath — …
- ●WallbangShooting an opponent through a wall, door or crate that the game's bullets can penetrate,…
- ☠Warcraft IIIA real-time strategy game with heroes, a story that became World of Warcraft's, and a map…
Peaked in 2002 15
- ●CampingStaying in one spot with a good weapon and waiting. The oldest gaming insult still in use…
- ▲Chain Letter (Email)'Forward this to ten people or you will have bad luck' — the email chain letter, as the 1…
- ☠DMOZVolunteers categorising the entire web by hand, for nineteen years, in a hierarchy nobody…
- ↺Diablo IIClick, loot, repeat, over a modem, in a dungeon crawler that defined the action RPG and r…
- ◐EverQuestThe 3D MMORPG that came before World of Warcraft and was known to its players as EverCrac…
- ▲Everything2A hyperlinked encyclopedia of nodes written by users, two years before Wikipedia. Lost on…
- ▲Grand Theft Auto IIIA 3D city you could drive around, with radio stations, a silent criminal and the option t…
- ▲Halo: Combat EvolvedThe launch game that justified the Xbox: a console shooter with a working control scheme,…
- ☠Haxor'Hacker', in leetspeak — 'h4x0r' — as the late-1990s word for a skilled computer user, sa…
- ☠Kuro5hinCollaborative editing of stories before they were posted, and a community that took the q…
- ↺RollerCoaster TycoonA theme-park builder written by one Scottish programmer in assembly language, in which ch…
- ↺Silent Hill 2A man receives a letter from his dead wife and goes to a foggy town to find her. The 2001…
- ▲SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that matters, with the first comment moderation system that worked.…
- ↺WinampIt really whipped the llama's ass. Killed by AOL in 2013, bought by a Belgian company nob…
- ●Zombo.comA site where you can do anything, at Zombo.com, said aloud forever. Rebuilt in HTML5 when…