54 born · 26 peaked · 11 died
Born in 2006 54
- ☠Advice DogA puppy on a rainbow background giving terrible guidance. Spawned an entire taxonomy of a…
- ▲Angry German KidA 2006 video of a German teenager smashing his keyboard and screaming at a slow-loading U…
- ↺Awesome FaceThe yellow smiley with the enormous grin and eyes pointed off to one side, born around 20…
- ▲Bus UncleA six-minute phone video from a Hong Kong bus in April 2006 in which a middle-aged man be…
- ↺CaramelldansenA loop of two anime girls waving their hands over their heads, set to a sped-up 2001 Swed…
- ☠Ceiling CatA cat looking through a hole in a ceiling, captioned as God — 'Ceiling Cat is watching yo…
- ●ClickbaitA headline that promises more than the article. Named in 2006, industrialised by 2013, an…
- ●CopypastaA block of text pasted verbatim across the web until it wears smooth. Oral tradition with…
- ◐CrowdsourcingGetting the public to do the work for free, as a business model. Fading as a word because…
- ●Data PoisoningCorrupting a model by corrupting what it learns from: planting examples in the training s…
- ●Dwarf FortressA colony of dwarves digs into a mountain in a world the game generates with its own histo…
- ▲Evolution of DanceJudson Laipply's six-minute medley of fifty years of dance moves, uploaded in April 2006 …
- ●Have You Tried Turning It Off and On AgainThe IT department's only question, from a 2006 sitcom into the universal first step, and …
- ◐Horse ArmorThe two-and-a-half-dollar download that put decorative armour on a horse in Oblivion in A…
- ●Hwaiting'Fighting!' — the Korean-English cheer, spelled 'hwaiting' or 'fighting', meaning 'you ca…
- ◐Inbox ZeroMerlin Mann's 2006 doctrine of processing every email to an empty inbox — the 'zero' bein…
- ◐It's Over 9000A Dragon Ball Z line about a power level, misquoted from the dub, as the internet's numbe…
- ●Jungle (MOBA)The forest between the lanes of a MOBA map, and the role of the player who farms its mons…
- ▲LeekspinA Flash loop from 2006 of an anime girl twirling a leek to a Finnish folk group's scat-su…
- ●LightstickThe official glowing baton of a K-pop fandom — the lightstick — from Big Bang's crown-top…
- ↺Line RiderA sledger on a line you drew. The purest Flash toy, killed with the format and rebuilt wi…
- ▲Lip DubA video in which a group mimes a song in one continuous take, usually with the camera wal…
- ▲Little SuperstarA break-dancing sequence from a 1990 Tamil film, performed by the short-statured actor kn…
- ☠LolcatCat photograph plus deliberately broken grammar. Taught the web that a caption is a langu…
- ☠LongcatA white cat held vertically, described as long. Its real name was Nobiko, and it lived un…
- ●MicrotransactionA small purchase inside a game — first a horse's armour for $2.50 in 2006, then everythin…
- ●Nintendo HardDifficult in the manner of an 8-bit game of the late 1980s — no saves, instant death, thr…
- ●OK Go Music VideosA band whose videos are engineering problems solved on camera: treadmill choreography in …
- ●Oof (Roblox)The short 'oof' a Roblox avatar made on dying, borrowed from a 2000 PC game called Messia…
- ▲Pool's ClosedThe 2006 catchphrase of 4chan's raids on Habbo Hotel, in which identical suited avatars w…
- ●RedditorA Reddit user, and, since about 2019, a type: pedantic, atheist, fond of a pun, 'well act…
- ●RobloxThe platform where children make games for other children and get paid in Robux, public s…
- ▲Rules of the InternetA numbered list of joke commandments, of which only 34 and 63 survived. The rest are of i…
- ☠Scene KidNeon, side fringes, raccoon tails and a MySpace name with an X in it. The last subculture…
- ▲Serious CatA grey cat with a level stare, captioned 'I am serious cat / this is serious thread', pos…
- ▲ShoesLiam Kyle Sullivan's 2006 video in which his character Kelly, a sullen teenager in a wig,…
- ▲Shoop Da WhoopA crudely drawn face with enormous lips that fires a beam from its mouth while shouting '…
- ●SmishingPhishing by text message — smishing — a word coined in 2006 for a crime that stayed margi…
- ▲Sneezing Baby PandaA mother panda chewing quietly until her cub sneezes and she jumps out of her skin — sixt…
- ◐StardollA Swedish browser dress-up site in which players dressed dolls of celebrities and then th…
- ●The 1% RuleOne per cent create, nine per cent edit, ninety per cent lurk. The demographic of every c…
- ↺The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionAn open fantasy world with a face-generation system that produced potato people, guards w…
- ▲Tunak Tunak TunA 1998 Daler Mehndi song whose video green-screens four copies of the singer over compute…
- ◐TweetA post on Twitter. Officially renamed 'post' by the platform's new owner in 2023 and igno…
- ●UnboxingOpening a box on camera, slowly, with commentary — from phones in 2006 to toys in 2016 (w…
- ▲Unregistered HyperCam 2The watermark 'Unregistered HyperCam 2' in the top-left corner of a screen recording — as…
- ▲Video ResponseA video posted as a reply to another video and linked beneath it — a video response — as …
- ●VishingPhishing by phone call — vishing — in which a person claiming to be your bank, your tax o…
- ●Vision BoardA collage of the life one intends to have — houses, bodies, cars, the word 'abundance' — …
- ☠Wii Shop ChannelA store with the most relaxing music ever written for commerce. Closed in January 2019; t…
- ▲Wii SportsTennis, bowling, golf, baseball and boxing played by waving a remote, packed in with the …
- ●YouTube Makeup TutorialA video in which someone applies makeup to a face, on camera, so that viewers can copy th…
- ◐YouTube PoopA genre of deliberately nonsensical video remix — stuttered clips, reversed audio, ear-ra…
- ☠ZuneMicrosoft's iPod, launched in November 2006 in brown, with a Wi-Fi song-sharing feature t…
Peaked in 2006 26
- ▲Afro NinjaAn audition tape in which a man in an afro attempts a backflip, lands on his head, stagge…
- ▲Animal Crossing: Wild WorldA village of animals, a mortgage to a raccoon, and a clock that ran in real time so the s…
- ☠BlogosphereThe idea that independent sites linking to each other formed a single conversation. Died …
- ▲Boom Goes the DynamiteA Ball State student sportscaster's four-minute ordeal on college TV in March 2005, in wh…
- ●BumpPosting nothing in order to lift a thread. Still done on every forum that has a chronolog…
- ▲Canon RockA rock arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D written by JerryC, which became famous throu…
- ▲Chacarron MacarronA Panamanian track built on a vocal that mostly is not words. It went round the early int…
- ☠Chuck Norris FactsHyperbolic claims about a martial artist's power, generated in their thousands. Died when…
- ☠Forum SignatureA block of quotes, banners and a Naruto GIF under every post you made. The last place on …
- ●GTG'Got to go' — the exit line of the instant-messaging age, with G2G as its numeric variant…
- ◐Habbo HotelA pixel hotel where teenagers stood in rooms and talked. Blocked the pool in a famous rai…
- ▲Hey ClipTwo Israeli film students lip-syncing to the Pixies' 'Hey' in a bedroom in Ramle on 24 Au…
- ●Kingdom of LoathingA browser role-playing game drawn in stick figures, where the currency is meat, the class…
- ▲Leeroy JenkinsA man shouting his own name and ruining a plan. Was staged, which nobody minded, then app…
- ↺LimeWireThe green lime that gave a generation both its music library and its viruses. Shut by inj…
- ●NewgroundsEverything Flash, by everyone, unreviewed. Outlived Flash itself, which nobody expected, …
- ▲NintendogsA puppy on the bottom screen that you stroked with a stylus and called by name into the m…
- ●PhishingFishing for credentials with a fake login page, spelt in leet. The only 1990s hacker coin…
- ▲PwnedDefeated, from a missed key. Kept alive past its natural span by a security website that …
- ☠ROFLcopterA helicopter made of ROFL, in ASCII, with blades that spun — 'ROFL:ROFL:LOL' — as the mid…
- ◐Salad FingersDavid Firth's green, long-fingered hermit who loves rusty spoons and talks to finger pupp…
- ▲Smosh Pokémon ThemeTwo teenagers lip-syncing the English Pokémon theme in a bedroom. It became the most view…
- ▲The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate DestinyNeil Cicierega's 2005 song, animated for Newgrounds, in which Godzilla, Batman, Abraham L…
- ↺Toontown OnlineA cartoon world where children fought robots with cream pies. Closed by Disney in Septemb…
- ↺YTMNDA picture, a sound, some tiled text, forever. Went dark in 2019 and returned in 2021 on a…
- ◐n00bA newcomer, spelt with contempt. Still typed by people who were newbies when it was coine…
Died in 2006 11
- ↺88x31 ButtonA tiny rectangular badge linking to a friend's site or announcing your browser loyalties.…
- ☠AOL CDA free trial disc that arrived in every magazine, cereal box and letterbox on Earth. At o…
- ☠AOL KeywordA word you typed instead of a URL, printed at the bottom of every advert. Died when it be…
- ↺Age of Empires IIMedieval real-time strategy with thirteen civilisations, a priest who says 'wololo', and …
- ☠Ask JeevesA cartoon butler who took questions in full sentences and mostly misunderstood them. Ever…
- ☠Best Viewed at 800x600A warning that the page had been designed for exactly one monitor. Responsive design did …
- ☠Lazy SundayA rap about cupcakes and Narnia that made YouTube a household name over a single Christma…
- ☠Numa NumaA man in a chair lip-syncing to a Romanian pop song with his whole upper body. The first …
- ↺Sonic the HedgehogSega's answer to Mario: a blue hedgehog with attitude, speed instead of precision, and a …
- ☠Splash PageA full-screen intro between you and the content, with a button reading 'Enter site' or 'S…
- ▲You've Got MailAn announcement that someone had written to you, spoken aloud by the computer. Became a r…