2003 on the internet

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Born in 2003 36

●Alt AccountA second account, for a second self — an alt — used for a different character, a differen…
☠Badger Badger BadgerBadgers, a mushroom, a snake, on a loop. Ran uninterrupted for seventeen years and then s…
↺Crazy FrogA blue animated frog with a motorcycle and an exposed absence of trousers, built in 2003 …
▲Defense of the AncientsA custom map for Warcraft III, passed between anonymous developers, that invented the fiv…
☠DeliciousSocial bookmarking with tags, back when a link was worth keeping. Sold four times, redesi…
◐DerpThe sound of stupidity — 'derp', 'herp derp' — from a 1998 film via South Park into the r…
●Edit WarTwo editors reverting each other's changes to a page until one gives up or is banned — th…
☠FAILA single word stamped on a picture of something going wrong. Ran an entire blog empire an…
●Fact-CheckTo verify a claim against the record, and to publish the result with a rating — fact-chec…
☠Hi5The social network that was, for a couple of years around 2007, the biggest site in Latin…
●IDC'I don't care' — indifference in three letters, and, with a G and an A and an F, indiffer…
●Kingdom of LoathingA browser role-playing game drawn in stick figures, where the currency is meat, the class…
◐LulzLaughs, in the plural, at someone's expense — 'for the lulz' — as the 2000s' explanation …
●MapleStoryA 2D side-scrolling MMORPG with cartoon characters, cash-shop clothes and grinding measur…
▲MySpaceCustomisable profiles, autoplay music and a friend called Tom. Lost every song uploaded b…
◐NeckbeardA man with a beard on his neck and not his face, as a type: socially inept, opinionated, …
●NecropostingReplying to a thread that had been dead for years. Frowned upon everywhere and, in this d…
●Ninja DefuseDefusing the bomb in Counter-Strike while enemy players are still alive and nearby but no…
☠O RLY?A snowy owl asking whether you were serious. The first image macro with a call and respon…
●OPOriginal poster. Whoever started the thread, and the person to whom all replies are secre…
◐PTDR'Pété de rire' — bursting with laughter — the stronger French typed laugh, one rung above…
●Paperclip MaximiserThe thought experiment of a superintelligent machine told to make paperclips, which does …
☠ROFLcopterA helicopter made of ROFL, in ASCII, with blades that spun — 'ROFL:ROFL:LOL' — as the mid…
●Rule 34If it exists, there is pornography of it. Stated as a joke, upheld as a law, never once f…
◐SageReplying to a thread without bumping it — typing 'sage' in the email field — as a way of …
◐Second LifeA virtual world with land, an economy and a Reuters bureau. Peaked when newspapers opened…
☠SkypeA verb for video calling, bought for $8.5 billion and starved for fourteen years in favou…
●Spoon TheoryA way of explaining chronic-illness energy as a fixed daily number of spoons, each task c…
●SusSuspicious, or suspect, clipped; a slang word with roots in British police jargon and 200…
●TAS'Tool-assisted speedrun' — a run made with save states and frame advance, perfect and imp…
▲The End of the WorldA 2003 Flash cartoon in which world leaders trade nuclear strikes in ninety seconds — 'WT…
↺Toontown OnlineA cartoon world where children fought robots with cream pies. Closed by Disney in Septemb…
●TrackmaniaTime-trial racing on tracks you built from blocks, with no collisions and a leaderboard, …
●Trad GothBackcombed black hair, white face, Siouxsie eyeliner, fishnets, a Bauhaus record and the …
●Voice ChatTalking to strangers while playing — voice chat, 'VC' — from TeamSpeak into Xbox Live int…
●tl;drToo long; didn't read, first as an insult, then as a courtesy summary. The rare term that…

2003 on the internet

Born in 2003 36

Peaked in 2003 12

Died in 2003 4