68 born · 49 peaked · 5 died
Born in 2007 68
- ●360 No-ScopeSpinning a full circle and killing an opponent with a sniper rifle without using the scop…
- ●BeepleMike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Wisconsin who made and posted one image every da…
- ☠Bin WeevilsA British browser world in which players were weevils living in a rubbish bin, with a nes…
- ●Bloons TDMonkeys throw darts at balloons that walk along a path, and the balloons get harder. A Fl…
- ▲BloxorzA rectangular block is rolled across a floating grid of tiles and has to drop into a squa…
- ●BotchA wrestling move gone wrong — a botch — and, since Maffew's 'Botchamania' compilations st…
- ▲Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareThe Call of Duty that left the Second World War and invented the modern multiplayer templ…
- ☠Charlie Bit My FingerTwo English brothers and a bitten finger, viewed nearly nine hundred million times. Delet…
- ☠Chocolate RainA baritone leaving the microphone to breathe. Died when Dr Pepper hired him to sing about…
- ●Common CrawlA non-profit that has been crawling the web and giving the copy away since 2007, whose ar…
- ●Content IDYouTube's automated fingerprint system, launched in 2007, which matches uploads against a…
- ▲Crank That (Soulja Boy)The debut single built on a looping steel drum riff, with a dance whose steps were taught…
- ●CreepypastaHorror fiction that circulates as rumour. The genre in which authorship is not just unkno…
- ●CrysisCrytek's 2007 shooter, built to a specification no PC of the time could run at full setti…
- ▲Desktop Tower DefenseCreeps walk across a drawing of a desk and you place towers to stop them, with no fixed p…
- ☠Don't Tase Me BroA protester shouting the sentence at police as he was tased. Yale's most memorable quote …
- ▲Dramatic ChipmunkFive seconds of a prairie dog on a Japanese television show turning to the camera, with a…
- ☠DuckrollA duck on wheels served instead of what a link promised. Existed for weeks before its suc…
- ☠Fail WhaleA whale carried by birds, shown whenever Twitter was down, which was often. Retired when …
- ●HashtagA word with a hash in front of it, proposed by a user and initially rejected by the compa…
- ●HeadcanonSomething you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that…
- ●HitmarkerThe small white cross that flashes on the crosshair in Call of Duty when a shot lands, in…
- ▲I Can Has CheezburgerThe site that turned lolcats into a business with a headcount. Still online; nobody has n…
- ▲I Like TurtlesA local-news reporter asks a boy in zombie face-paint what he thinks of his makeup; he re…
- ▲I Wanna Be the GuyA small boy called The Kid tries to become The Guy through a set of levels that kill him …
- ●IMY'I miss you' — the three-letter confession, from late-2000s texting, which manages to say…
- ▲Indian ThrillerA dance scene from the Indian film Donga, given English subtitles that phonetically appro…
- ◐JailbreakTo break an iPhone out of Apple's restrictions so it can run software from outside the Ap…
- ☠Keyboard CatA cat in a blue shirt playing someone off after a failure. The pistachio adverts arrived …
- ☠Leave Britney AloneA tearful defence filmed under a bedsheet, watched two million times in one day. The firs…
- ●Let's PlayWatching someone play a game and talk. Started as text with screenshots, became an indust…
- ◐ListicleAn article that is a numbered list. Fading with the sites that lived on it, though this d…
- ☠LolrusA walrus with a bucket, and the saga — 'I has a bucket', 'NOOO they be stealin my bucket'…
- ☠Lolwut'Lol, what?' — amused confusion, in one word, with a painting of a pear as its image — as…
- ◐Manic Pixie Dream GirlThe quirky, colourful, ukulele-adjacent woman who exists in a film only to teach a sad ma…
- ▲Milhouse Is Not a MemeThe 4chan paradox of 2007: a campaign to make Milhouse a meme, met by the reply 'Milhouse…
- ▲Noob TubeAn under-barrel grenade launcher used by people who could not aim. The most hated weapon …
- ◐OP DeliveredThe rare moment a thread's original poster actually provided what they promised — 'OP del…
- ●Osu!A free rhythm game from 2007 in which players click circles in time with anime and electr…
- ◐PeggleA ball drops through a field of pegs, and when the last orange peg goes the game slows do…
- ◐PoptropicaA browser world of islands, each a self-contained puzzle adventure, created by the author…
- ▲PortalA three-hour puzzle game in a testing facility, with a gun that made two connected holes …
- ●ReblogTo repost with a comment attached, so that the post grows as it travels — the reblog — as…
- ↺RickrollA bait link resolving to Rick Astley. Has died and been resurrected more times than any o…
- ●RobuxRoblox's virtual currency, bought with real money and spent on avatar items, game passes …
- ☠Rock BandGuitar Hero's creators added drums and a microphone and sold the whole band in a box. Its…
- ●Rule 63For every character, there is a version of the opposite sex. Less famous than its neighbo…
- ◐Sent From My iPhoneThe default signature that became a status symbol, an excuse for typos, and a joke — 'Sen…
- ●ShitpostingPosting deliberately low-effort or derailing content, as a craft. Now the dominant regist…
- ↺SkeuomorphismSoftware pretending to be leather, felt and glass. Removed in 2013 as childish, and retur…
- ◐Sub4Sub'Sub4sub' — subscribe to me and I'll subscribe to you — as the late-2000s comment-section…
- ☠Success KidA toddler clenching a fistful of sand in triumph. Used in a congressman's fundraising in …
- ●SynthwaveAnalog synth arpeggios, gated drums, a purple sunset with a grid, a Testarossa and a palm…
- ●Team Fortress 2Nine cartoon mercenaries, a Pixar look and, from 2009, hats. Valve's class shooter became…
- ▲Techno VikingA shirtless, muscled man at Berlin's 2000 Fuckparade who stops a fight, points down the s…
- ◐The Cake Is a LieGraffiti from a 2007 game warning that the promised reward does not exist, which became t…
- ◐The Gummy Bear SongA bubblegum dance track performed by a green animated bear, dubbed into dozens of languag…
- ▲The Impossible QuizA Flash quiz of 110 questions that cannot be answered by knowing anything, only by guessi…
- ▲The Mysterious Ticking NoiseNeil Cicierega's 2007 puppet sketch in which Snape, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione and Harry c…
- ☠This Is SpartaGerard Butler's roar as he kicks a Persian messenger into a pit in the 2007 film 300, re-…
- ▲Thriller (Cebu Dancing Inmates)Hundreds of prisoners at a detention centre in Cebu performing Michael Jackson's Thriller…
- ●Twelve Days of Christmas (Straight No Chaser)An a cappella group's arrangement of the carol that keeps derailing into other songs. Wen…
- ●UnfollowTo stop following, and the small social death of noticing you have been unfollowed, track…
- ●UnfriendTo remove someone from your friends list. Word of the Year in 2009, and one of only two i…
- ☠Watch InstantlyThe name under which Netflix, then a DVD-by-post service founded in 1997, first let membe…
- ▲WeegeeA stiff, dead-eyed sprite of Luigi from the 1993 educational game Mario Is Missing!, whic…
- ●Wi-Fi PasswordThe string of letters on the bottom of a router, and the first thing a guest asks for in …
- ●iPhone (2007)The first iPhone, announced in January 2007 and sold from 29 June, which put a real web b…
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- ●AMV (Anime Music Video)Fan-made videos that re-cut footage from anime out of its original order, lay a full song…
- ▲Angry German KidA 2006 video of a German teenager smashing his keyboard and screaming at a slow-loading U…
- ☠Boom Headshot'BOOM, HEADSHOT!' — the catchphrase of a fictional gamer in a 2005 web series, shouted by…
- ↺Brain AgeSums, Stroop tests and reading aloud, with a floating polygon head of a Japanese neurosci…
- ☠Bury (Digg)To downvote a story on Digg into oblivion — the site's anonymous, unexplained negative vo…
- ▲Charlie the UnicornJason Steele's 2005 Flash cartoon in which two manic unicorns drag a grumpy one to Candy …
- ☠DeliciousSocial bookmarking with tags, back when a link was worth keeping. Sold four times, redesi…
- ☠Demotivational PosterA black border, a photo, a caption, a subtitle that undermined it. The meme format that c…
- ▲DesuThe Japanese copula — 'is', roughly — spammed on 4chan from 2005 as a reference to an ani…
- ☠Do Not WantDarth Vader's scream, mistranslated. The most useful three words the bootleg market ever …
- ☠First!A comment announcing that it was the first comment. A race to be seen having nothing to s…
- ◐FlickrThe photo-sharing site, launched in February 2004 from the wreckage of a Vancouver video …
- ◐Guild WarsAn online RPG with no monthly fee, built by three former Blizzard staff, that sold millio…
- ☠Guitar HeroA plastic guitar with five coloured buttons and a game that made a living room feel like …
- ☠Hi5The social network that was, for a couple of years around 2007, the biggest site in Latin…
- ◐Horse ArmorThe two-and-a-half-dollar download that put decorative armour on a horse in Oblivion in A…
- ◐Knight OnlineA Korean MMORPG with two nations, Karus and El Morad, at permanent war, that found its re…
- ▲LeekspinA Flash loop from 2006 of an anime girl twirling a leek to a Finnish folk group's scat-su…
- ↺Line RiderA sledger on a line you drew. The purest Flash toy, killed with the format and rebuilt wi…
- ☠Long TailThe theory that niche products would together outsell the hits. Right about the shape of …
- ☠LongcatA white cat held vertically, described as long. Its real name was Nobiko, and it lived un…
- ☠MSN MessengerWhere the world outside America instant-messaged. Retired into Skype in 2013, which was r…
- ☠MSN NudgeA button that shook your friend's window to get their attention. The last piece of softwa…
- ●MapleStoryA 2D side-scrolling MMORPG with cartoon characters, cash-shop clothes and grinding measur…
- ◐MetaFilterFive dollars to join, one post a day, and the best comment section on the internet. Fadin…
- ☠MySpace AngleA camera held high and to the side, at arm's length, in a bathroom mirror. The first pose…
- ●NoobA new or bad player, from 'newbie' by way of 'n00b', established in Counter-Strike and fo…
- ●Phoenix Wright: Ace AttorneyA courtroom visual novel in which a spiky-haired lawyer shouts 'Objection!' and points, a…
- ↺PokeA button that notified someone you had pressed a button. Nobody could ever explain it; Fa…
- ▲Pool's ClosedThe 2006 catchphrase of 4chan's raids on Habbo Hotel, in which identical suited avatars w…
- ↺RSSSubscribing to a site directly, without an intermediary deciding what you see. Declared o…
- ●RuneScapeA browser MMORPG written in Java by two brothers in Cambridge and played in school IT roo…
- ◐ScreamerA video or game that lulls you and then screams — a screamer — as the early-2000s prank t…
- ◐Second LifeA virtual world with land, an economy and a Reuters bureau. Peaked when newspapers opened…
- ▲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,…
- ☠SidekickThe flip-out-keyboard phone, sold by T-Mobile from October 2002, that was the first devic…
- ▲Sneezing Baby PandaA mother panda chewing quietly until her cub sneezes and she jumps out of her skin — sixt…
- ◐Something AwfulA ten-dollar forum from which most of the 2000s internet was released. Its founder died i…
- ●TeabaggingCrouching repeatedly over a defeated opponent's body in a shooter, a gesture of contempt …
- ↺The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionAn open fantasy world with a face-generation system that produced potato people, guards w…
- ●TibiaA tile-based MMORPG from a group of German students, one of the oldest still running, wit…
- ☠Top 8Eight friends, ranked in public, on your profile. The most emotionally dangerous feature …
- ☠Web 2.0Rounded corners, gradients, beta labels and the user as the product. The last version num…
- ●WikipediaThe free encyclopedia anyone can edit, launched on 15 January 2001 as a side project to a…
- ●Wipe (Raid)The death of an entire raid group to a boss, in EverQuest from 1999 and in World of Warcr…
- ●World Wide WebTim Berners-Lee's system of pages linked to other pages, built at CERN and made public in…
- ◐XDA laughing face made of letters — eyes squeezed shut, mouth open — that was every teenage…
- ☠w00tA cheer, with zeroes. Word of the Year in 2007 and never typed sincerely again after the …
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- ▲3D Pinball: Space CadetThe one pinball table bundled with Windows from the mid-1990s to XP, played by everyone w…
- ☠DuckrollA duck on wheels served instead of what a link promised. Existed for weeks before its suc…
- ☠Peanut Butter Jelly TimeA dancing banana that would not stop. Killed by a television sitcom using it, then by Fla…
- ▲Snake (Nokia)A line of pixels eating dots and growing longer on a monochrome phone screen. Nokia shipp…
- ↺Tony Hawk's Pro SkaterTwo minutes per level, a combo counter and a soundtrack that taught a generation about sk…