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Born in 2010 151
- ●/sThe sarcasm tag — '/s' at the end of a sentence — from a joke HTML closing tag into the i…
- ●10x EngineerA programmer ten times as productive as an ordinary one, as an industry myth and, after a…
- ●ASMRAutonomous sensory meridian response — the tingle from whispering, tapping and crinkling …
- ●AegyoA performed cuteness — pouting, a squeaky voice, a small hand-heart — that Korean idols d…
- ◐Amnesia: The Dark DescentA Swedish horror game about a man with no memory in a castle, with no weapons, a sanity m…
- ●Animal JamA virtual world of animal avatars in a nature-themed land, made with National Geographic …
- ▲Are You Serious FaceThe rage face with one enormous eye, one slit and a mouth clamped in disbelief, used when…
- ◐Ask.fmThe Latvian anonymous-question site, launched in June 2010, that took over from Formsprin…
- ●BBG'Baby girl' — the pet-name acronym, warm in DMs and unbearable in comment sections, that …
- ●Back-Seat GamingTelling a player what to do while they play — back-seat gaming — from the sofa into the c…
- ●BanterTeasing between friends, as a culture — 'banter', 'bantz' — which the 2010s British inter…
- ●BarbzNicki Minaj's fandom — the Barbz, from her Harajuku Barbie persona of 2010 — the most fea…
- ●BasedReclaimed from an insult into the highest available compliment for saying something unpop…
- ☠Bed IntruderA local news interview about a break-in, auto-tuned into a Billboard hit. The subject bou…
- ●BiohackingTreating the body as a system to be optimised with supplements, gadgets, fasting, cold an…
- ●Bitcoin Pizza DayThe anniversary of a man buying two pizzas for ten thousand bitcoins in 2010, celebrated …
- ●Blowing UpSuddenly popular — 'this is blowing up' — or, of a phone, receiving too many notification…
- ◐Bro FistThe closed fist pushed at the camera at the end of every early PewDiePie video, with the …
- ●Calm'Fine', 'no problem', 'okay' — 'calm' — as the London acknowledgement that describes a st…
- ●CatfishA person pretending to be someone else online, usually for romance — a catfish — from a 2…
- ●Caught FeelingsTo develop feelings for someone you had agreed not to — 'caught feelings' — as if they we…
- ◐Challenge AcceptedThe grinning, chin-up rage face saying 'Challenge accepted', used from 2010 to announce t…
- ●Charot'Just kidding' — the Filipino tag word, from swardspeak, appended to anything said sincer…
- ▲Chum Drum BedrumThe Russian singer Vitas performing The 7th Element, retitled after what English speakers…
- ●Circle Back'Let's circle back' — to return to something later, or never — as the corporate phrase th…
- ☠CityVilleA Facebook city-builder from the makers of FarmVille, in which players built shops, staff…
- ☠Close EnoughThe rage face with the raised eyebrow and the lopsided mouth, captioned 'Close enough', u…
- ●Coin MasterA slot-machine game in which spins produce coins, attacks and raids on friends' villages,…
- ●ContentAnything posted — content — as the word that flattened video, writing, art and a photo of…
- ●CringeSecond-hand embarrassment, as a noun, a verdict and a genre — from a verb to 'that's crin…
- ◐Crying Laughing Emoji😂 — the face with tears of joy, the most-used emoji on Earth for a decade and the Oxford…
- ●Cunningham's LawThe best way to get a right answer online is to post a wrong one. Still the fastest resea…
- ◐Cut the RopeA sweet on a rope has to be swung into the mouth of a small green monster called Om Nom, …
- ●Dark PatternInterface design built to trick — the pre-ticked box, the cancel button in grey, the 'No …
- ●Day One PatchThe update a game needs the day it comes out — often larger than the game — and the phras…
- ☠Deal With ItA GIF in which pixel sunglasses drop onto any face, followed by the words 'Deal with it' …
- ●Demis HassabisDeepMind's co-founder and chief executive, a former chess prodigy who worked on the game …
- ◐DirectionersOne Direction's fandom — Directioners — from the band's X Factor run in late 2010, the fi…
- ↺DogeA Shiba Inu annotated in coloured Comic Sans. Outlived its own irony, then outlived its o…
- ●DogpileA crowd attacking one person at once — a dogpile, a pile-on — as the internet's word for …
- ☠DolanA grotesquely misdrawn Donald Duck, speaking in misspelled captions ('gooby pls'), who be…
- ☠Double RainbowA man overcome by a double rainbow, asking what it means. Microsoft put him in a Windows …
- ●Dumb PhoneA phone that only calls and texts, chosen on purpose — the dumb phone — a joke name from …
- ●Ellipsis (Ominous)'…' — three dots, which older texters use as a pause and younger ones read as a threat: '…
- ◐Elo HellThe rank a player believes they are trapped in by bad teammates rather than by their own …
- ↺Epic Sax GuySergey Stepanov, saxophonist for Moldova's SunStroke Project, thrusting his hips through …
- ●ExtraOver the top, dramatic, too much — 'she's so extra' — as the 2015–17 word for a person wh…
- ●FOH'F*** outta here' — dismissal, from AAVE into general use by 2015 as the reply to anythin…
- ●Fan WarA conflict between fandoms — over charts, awards, or nothing — conducted in replies and h…
- ●FeelsEmotions, as a plural noun — 'the feels', 'right in the feels' — from the board that inve…
- ●Filter BubbleOnly being shown what you already agree with. A warning that became an architecture, and …
- ↺Final Fantasy XIVSquare Enix's MMO, released in 2010 in a state that led the company to apologise, replace…
- ☠Forever AloneA crying face with a lumpy head, used to announce solitude with a joke attached. Sadder i…
- ●Frame PerfectTimed to a single frame of video — one sixtieth of a second — and, since the 2020s, the c…
- ●Free RobuxThe two words behind roughly every scam ever aimed at a child on the internet: a link, a …
- ◐Fruit NinjaFruit is thrown into the air and you slice it with a finger, and a bomb ends it. Made by …
- ▲Fuck Yea GuyThe rage face with the confident stride, jutting chin and closed-eye smirk that ended com…
- ☠Google BuzzA social feed switched on inside everyone's inbox that published your most-emailed contac…
- ●Google DeepMindThe London lab founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, bought…
- ●Grammys Snub DiscourseThe night after the Grammys, when the internet decides who was robbed, and the fandoms fi…
- ☠Growth HackingMarketing, done by people who wanted to be engineers. Died when everyone realised it mean…
- ●Haha vs LolThe hierarchy of typed laughter — 'haha' is warm, 'ha' is cold, 'hahaha' is sincere, 'lol…
- ◐Happy WheelsA browser physics game in which a man on a Segway, a father on a bicycle with a child sea…
- ●Hard Stop'I have a hard stop at three' — a meeting that must end on time, said at the start of one…
- ◐Haters Gonna HateThe caption under any image of someone strutting, from 2010 onwards, dismissing criticism…
- ◐HerobrineMinecraft's ghost: a white-eyed version of the player character said to haunt single-play…
- ◐Hey, Vsauce, Michael HereThe opening line of every Vsauce video — 'Hey, Vsauce, Michael here' — delivered by Micha…
- ●Hope This Email Finds You WellThe opening line of every professional email, and the 2021 joke about it — 'this email fi…
- ●Huffing Face😤 — a face with steam from the nose, meant for anger, used for determination, pride and …
- ◐Humans of New YorkBrandon Stanton's project of photographing strangers in New York and posting the picture …
- ◐HumblebragA boast disguised as a complaint. Named by a comedian who died in 2015; the word is fadin…
- ●HusbandoThe male counterpart of 'waifu': a fictional character (anime, game, occasionally a carto…
- ●Instagram (2010)The photo-sharing app Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released on 6 October 2010: a square…
- ☠JejemonA Filipino subculture of 2010 — named for its 'jejeje' laugh — that wrote in a maximal SM…
- ☠KabosuThe Shiba Inu in the Doge photograph, rescued from a shelter by Atsuko Sato in Sakura, Ja…
- ●Kanka'Bro', 'mate' — the Turkish word for a close friend (short for 'kan kardeşi', blood broth…
- ◐Kek'Lol', as it appeared to the other faction in World of Warcraft, adopted by 4chan as its …
- ◐KikThe username-only messenger from Waterloo, Ontario, launched in October 2010, that reache…
- ☠KinectMicrosoft's camera controller, announced as Project Natal with a demo of a boy called Mil…
- ☠Lame Pun CoonA raccoon on a green background grinning at its own terrible pun, a 2010 Advice Animal wh…
- ●Legend'Legend' — a person who did something slightly above the ordinary: got the round in, repl…
- ◐LimboA boy with glowing eyes walks right through a black-and-white forest and dies in a great …
- ◐Live Laugh LoveThree words on a wooden sign in a suburban kitchen, mocked by the internet from 2016 as t…
- ◐Loot BoxPaying for a random reward inside a game. Regulated as gambling in several countries; fad…
- ●Loudly Crying Emoji😭 — the sobbing face, which Gen Z repurposed as a laugh, a cringe, and a general reactio…
- ☠Me GustaA face of disturbing pleasure, captioned 'me gusta' — 'I like it', in Spanish — as the ra…
- ●Moist (British)Weak, pathetic, soft — 'moist' — as the London slang insult that turned the internet's mo…
- ●MukbangEating a large amount of food on camera, with the sounds, for an audience that watches wh…
- ☠Musically Oblivious 8th GraderA 2010 Advice Animal — a teenage girl on a pink background who thinks 'Smells Like Teen S…
- ●Nice Guy™A man who describes himself as nice and behaves otherwise when refused — the Nice Guy, wi…
- ●No Wahala'No problem', 'no worries' — the Nigerian Pidgin reassurance, everywhere in Afrobeats and…
- ●NuzlockeA self-imposed Pokémon rule set — catch only the first Pokémon in each area, and any that…
- ●OOTD'Outfit of the day' — the daily mirror photo, from fashion blogs in 2010 into a TikTok ge…
- ▲Okay GuyThe sad, slumped rage face with downcast eyes and a small 'okay' — the reaction to being …
- ☠Old Spice GuyA shirtless man on a horse answering tweets in real time. The one advert that was a meme …
- ☠One Weird TrickA promise of a secret that doctors hated. Ran the advertising economy of the low-quality …
- ▲Pants on the GroundA chant performed by 'General' Larry Platt at an American Idol audition in Atlanta on 13 …
- ☠Paranoid ParrotA wide-eyed parrot on a purple background, the 2010 Advice Animal for irrational fear: th…
- ●Passive IncomeMoney earned while asleep — passive income — as the promise of every finance influencer, …
- ●PhotocardThe small collectible card of an idol randomly inserted in a K-pop album — the photocard …
- ☠Ping (Apple)Apple's music social network, bolted into iTunes 10 in September 2010, in which you could…
- ●Quick Question'Quick question' — the opener that precedes a question that is not quick, and the record'…
- ●RN'Right now' — the two letters that add urgency to anything: 'I need coffee rn', 'crying r…
- ●Reaction VideoA person watching something and reacting, on camera, as the content — from 'kids react' i…
- ●Red PillThe pill from The Matrix that shows the truth, adopted by online communities — first abou…
- ●RoadmanA young man of the streets, in a tracksuit and a man-bag, speaking MLE — the roadman — as…
- ▲Robot Unicorn AttackA robot unicorn runs right across a purple sky, dashes through stars, and dies against a …
- ●Roko's BasiliskA thought experiment from a 2010 forum post: a future superintelligence might punish ever…
- ☠Sad KeanuA paparazzi photograph of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a bench in New York, wh…
- ◐SanicA badly drawn Sonic the Hedgehog — a blue scribble with one eye and the caption 'Sanic' —…
- ◐SelenatorsSelena Gomez's fandom — Selenators — from around 2010, at their peak during the 'Revival'…
- ☠Sharing EconomyRenting things to strangers, described as generosity. Died when it became clear that noth…
- ☠Sheltering Suburban MomA 2010 Advice Animal featuring a smiling suburban woman on a yellow background whose capt…
- ◐Shut Up and Take My MoneyFry from Futurama thrusting a wad of dollars at the screen, from a 2010 episode about a p…
- ↺Skate 3 RevivalA 2010 skateboarding game whose physics glitches and ragdoll falls became a YouTube forma…
- ●SlayTo do exceptionally well; also an all-purpose affirmation. Appeared in a high-street bank…
- ●Sorry for the Late ReplyThe apology that opens a reply sent weeks late, and the meme about it — 'sorry for the la…
- ●Sort by ControversialThe setting that shows the most-argued comments first — sort by controversial — as the ad…
- ●Sparkles Emoji✨ — sparkles, placed around a word for ironic emphasis: 'my ✨mental health✨'. The reco…
- ●Stack Overflow Copy-PasteProgramming by copying the top answer — the Stack Overflow copy-paste — as the industry's…
- ◐StarCraft IIThe sequel Korea waited twelve years for, released in three parts across 2010 to 2015. It…
- ◐Super Meat BoyA cube of meat runs through saw blades to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from a foetu…
- ●SwiftiesTaylor Swift's fans, self-named 'Swifties' by around 2010 and trademarked in 2017 — the f…
- ●TFW'That feel when' — the caption for a shared feeling, usually a sad one, from 4chan's 'tfw…
- ◐TFW No GF'That feel when no girlfriend' — the phrase that gave the world the wojak, drawn to illus…
- ●Talking TomA grey cat that repeats what the player says in a high voice and can be poked, fed and dr…
- ▲The DecisionLeBron James's one-hour ESPN special of 8 July 2010 — 'I'm going to take my talents to So…
- ☠The Most Interesting Man in the WorldThe bearded gentleman from the Dos Equis beer adverts, captioned 'I don't always X / but …
- ●The TimelineThe feed, as a place — 'the timeline is a mess today', 'the TL' — with its own weather, m…
- ◐Thought LeaderA person paid to have opinions in public, self-described. Fading because nobody now admit…
- ●ThrowingLosing a game you were winning — a throw — from the sporting idea of throwing a match int…
- ●TiltedPlaying badly because you are angry — on tilt, tilted — from poker into every competitive…
- ●ToxicHostile, cruel, bad for everyone — toxic — as the gaming word for a player who ruins the …
- ●TryhardA player who takes a casual game seriously — the tryhard — as an insult from people who a…
- ●Underrated Comment'Underrated comment' — the reply to a comment that deserves more likes, posted by someone…
- ●Unnie'Older sister' — the Korean term a woman uses for an older woman, which K-pop fandom appl…
- ◐VVVVVVCaptain Viridian cannot jump, only flip gravity, and looks for a crew of five in a Commod…
- ↺VaporwaveSlowed-down mall music, Roman busts, and Japanese text. A genre about the feeling of a sh…
- ●WFH'Working from home' — a rare privilege in 2010, everyone's situation in March 2020, and a…
- ●WYD'What you doing' — the opener of a text that wants something, usually at night, and the r…
- ●WahalaTrouble, drama, stress — the Nigerian Pidgin word, from Hausa, which Nigerian Twitter mad…
- ●Wat'What', with the h removed and the meaning changed — 'wat' — as the reaction to something…
- ☠We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)A charity single assembled from 57 geographically scattered unsigned and independent sing…
- ●Weary Face😩 — the weary face, which the internet decided meant desire rather than tiredness, so th…
- ●WojakA bald outline face, drawn to feel something. Has mutated into more documented subspecies…
- ☠WunderlistThe Berlin to-do app, launched in November 2010, that was clean, fast and beloved, and th…
- ☠X All the YThe stick-figure with the broom and the manic grin from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Hal…
- ☠Y U No'Y U NO' — a screaming face from a manga, captioned with a complaint in broken English: '…
- ●Y/N'Your name' — the blank in a fanfiction where the reader inserts themselves — and 'Y/N' a…
- ●Yalla'Come on', 'let's go', 'hurry' — the Arabic exclamation, borrowed into Hebrew, Turkish an…
- ☠Yao Ming FaceThe line drawing of basketball player Yao Ming mid-laugh, traced from a 2009 press confer…
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- ↺009 Sound SystemAn electronic project whose tracks became the default sound of amateur YouTube because Au…
- ●Achievement UnlockedThe pop-up and chime with which the Xbox 360 rewarded players for doing things from its l…
- ●AggroA monster's attention — aggro — and 'pulling aggro' as drawing it, from MMOs into life: '…
- ●AimbotA cheat program that aims for the player, first written for Quake in 1997 and since then …
- ●Anon'Anonymous', shortened — the name every poster had on a board without names, and therefor…
- ●Asterisk CorrectionA typo fixed in the next message with an asterisk — 'their' / '*there' — as the chat conv…
- ●AstroturfingFake grassroots — a campaign that looks organic and is paid for — astroturfing, named aft…
- ●Bruv'Brother' — 'bruv' — as the London address for anyone, and the record's entry for the wor…
- ●CAPTCHAThe 'prove you're not a robot' test — distorted words, then house numbers, then a grid of…
- ●Call of Duty ZombiesTreyarch's co-op survival mode, first hidden as an after-credits bonus in World at War in…
- ▲Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)Infinity Ward's 2009 sequel, the biggest entertainment launch in history at the time, wit…
- ☠CanabaltA man in a suit runs across rooftops in a grey city while something large destroys it beh…
- ◐Cave StoryA robot boy with no memory wakes in a cave full of rabbit-like creatures called Mimigas a…
- ◐ChatrouletteThe site, built by a 17-year-old in Moscow in November 2009, that connected you by webcam…
- ●Cheese (Gaming)A cheap, exploitative tactic that works — cheesing a boss, a cheese strategy — as the gam…
- ☠ChillwaveWashed-out, reverb-heavy, lo-fi summer pop — chillwave — as the genre named by the anonym…
- ●Comic SansThe friendly, wobbly typeface Vincent Connare drew for Microsoft in 1994 to fit a cartoon…
- ●Concern TrollingUndermining a position while pretending to hold it, out of worry. The troll's only formal…
- ☠Cool Story BroA response indicating nobody had asked. Printed on so many T-shirts that the T-shirt beca…
- ☠Courage WolfA snarling wolf on a colour-wheel background dispensing violent encouragement in Impact f…
- ◐CrowdsourcingGetting the public to do the work for free, as a business model. Fading as a word because…
- ☠Digital NativeA person who grew up online and therefore understood it. Killed when the natives turned o…
- ●Disaster GirlA small girl smiling at the camera as a house burns behind her, as the image for anyone q…
- ◐Doodle JumpA small creature with a nose bounces up platforms on graph paper, tilting the phone to st…
- ●Edit WarTwo editors reverting each other's changes to a page until one gives up or is banned — th…
- ●Eh (Canadian)'Eh' — the Canadian tag that asks for agreement, that Canadians use less than the world t…
- ◐FML'F*** my life' — the sign-off of a website where strangers posted their worst moments, wh…
- ●FWIW'For what it's worth' — the hedge that pre-discounts an opinion, from Usenet to the prese…
- ☠FarmVilleA farm that sent notifications to your friends when your crops needed them. Eighty millio…
- ↺FirefliesA 2009 synth-pop single that returned in May 2017 as a meme in which the opening bars are…
- ☠Foul Bachelor FrogAn Advice Animal of 2009 — a frog on a green colour wheel confessing the domestic habits …
- ◐Fox Only, No Items, Final DestinationThe caricature of the competitive Smash player's rules — one flat stage, no items, the be…
- ☠Free RealmsA free online world for children from the makers of EverQuest, with jobs, kart racing, a …
- ◐GETA milestone post number — the millionth, the ten-millionth — and the race to claim it, on…
- ●GTFO'Get the f*** out' — the forum's eviction notice, delivered to anyone whose post was too …
- ☠GchatThe chat box inside Gmail — officially Google Talk from August 2005, but never called tha…
- ☠Google ReaderA tool for reading every site you cared about in one place, killed for being used by the …
- ↺GowallaChecking in to places, with better stamps than Foursquare. Bought and closed by Facebook …
- ●Grammar PoliceThe commenter who corrects your spelling instead of your argument — the grammar police — …
- ●Have You Tried Turning It Off and On AgainThe IT department's only question, from a 2006 sitcom into the universal first step, and …
- ●Hello WorldThe first program everyone writes — print 'Hello, World!' — from a 1972 tutorial into a r…
- ●IANAL'I am not a lawyer' — the disclaimer before legal advice from someone who is not a lawyer…
- ●IDK'I don't know' — the three letters that answer most questions, and, said aloud as 'idk', …
- ●IIRC'If I recall correctly' — the forum poster's way of citing memory as a source, and one of…
- ●It's Not a Bug, It's a FeatureThe reclassification of a mistake as a decision — 'it's not a bug, it's a feature' — as t…
- ◐It's a Trap!Admiral Ackbar's three-word warning from Return of the Jedi, posted from the mid-2000s un…
- ●Japanese www'www' — the Japanese internet's laugh, from 'warau', where each w is a ha and a row of th…
- ●LagThe delay between doing and seeing — lag — as the oldest excuse in online gaming and, sin…
- ▲Lip DubA video in which a group mimes a song in one continuous take, usually with the camera wal…
- ▲Literal Music VideoA music video re-sung with new lyrics that describe, deadpan, exactly what is happening o…
- ●Lorem IpsumThe scrambled Latin that fills a design before the words arrive — lorem ipsum — from 1960…
- ●MDR'Mort de rire' — dying of laughter — the French 'lol', born in late-1990s chat and still …
- ●Mary SueA character too perfect to be interesting — the Mary Sue — from a 1973 parody of Star Tre…
- ▲Muppets Bohemian RhapsodyThe Muppets performing a rearranged Bohemian Rhapsody, with Animal on the operatic sectio…
- ●NP'No problem' — the reply to thanks, in two letters, from IRC to now, and the record's ent…
- ●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…
- ●NerfTo weaken something in a patch, from the foam toy. Now used about tax policy by people wh…
- ●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 …
- ●OMG'Oh my God' — first written in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill by an admiral, and redi…
- ●OPOriginal poster. Whoever started the thread, and the person to whom all replies are secre…
- ☠Pet SocietyA Facebook game in which the player kept a round pet in a house, visited friends' pets an…
- ☠Pixie HollowA Disney browser world in which players were fairies in Tinker Bell's valley, with talent…
- ◐Plants vs. ZombiesZombies walk toward a house across a lawn and the only defence is a garden of peashooters…
- ☠PlayStation HomeA 3D lobby where avatars queued to bowl. Shut in 2015 with almost no one noticing, which …
- ●Poe's LawWithout a clear signal of intent, parody of an extreme view is indistinguishable from the…
- ◐PoptropicaA browser world of islands, each a self-contained puzzle adventure, created by the author…
- ◐RsrsThe Brazilian typed laugh that is not 'kkkk': an abbreviation of 'risos' (laughs), repeat…
- ●Safe'Thanks', 'okay', 'good' — 'safe' — as the London slang word that does the job of five, a…
- ◐SageReplying to a thread without bumping it — typing 'sage' in the email field — as a way of …
- ●ScrubA bad player who blames the game — the scrub — from the fighting-game community, which bo…
- ☠SkypeA verb for video calling, bought for $8.5 billion and starved for fourteen years in favou…
- ●Slash FictionFanfiction pairing two male characters, named for the slash in 'Kirk/Spock' in 1970s zine…
- ◐StardollA Swedish browser dress-up site in which players dressed dolls of celebrities and then th…
- ◐SteampunkVictorian brass, goggles, airships and gears glued on a top hat — steampunk — as the genr…
- ●StickyA thread pinned to the top of a forum — a sticky — as the moderator's way of saying 'read…
- ▲Street Fighter IVThe sequel that returned after nine years and revived the fighting game genre and its tou…
- ●Streisand EffectTrying to suppress something and thereby publicising it. Named for a lawsuit over one aer…
- ●The 1% RuleOne per cent create, nine per cent edit, ninety per cent lurk. The demographic of every c…
- ▲The Duck SongA children's song about a duck who walks up to a lemonade stand and asks, repeatedly, for…
- ◐The Gummy Bear SongA bubblegum dance track performed by a green animated bear, dubbed into dozens of languag…
- ●Thread HijackTaking over someone else's discussion with your own topic — the thread hijack — as the fo…
- ▲Thriller (Cebu Dancing Inmates)Hundreds of prisoners at a detention centre in Cebu performing Michael Jackson's Thriller…
- ●Thx'Thanks', compressed — 'thx', 'ty', 'tysm' — as gratitude with the minimum of keystrokes,…
- ●TrollSomeone posting to provoke a response. Started as a fishing metaphor for a specific joke …
- ▲TrollfaceA grin drawn in MS Paint that meant the whole thing was a setup. One of the few memes wit…
- ☠TrololoA 1976 Soviet television clip of baritone Eduard Khil performing a wordless song with a f…
- ●TsundereA character type — hostile ('tsun tsun') on the outside, warm ('dere dere') underneath — …
- ●WTF'What the f***' — the internet's oldest expression of disbelief, older than the web, and …
- ●Wagwan'What's going on' — the Jamaican greeting, via London, as the opener of a million message…
- ☠Watch InstantlyThe name under which Netflix, then a DVD-by-post service founded in 1997, first let membe…
- ●Wizard101A children's online role-playing game of wizards duelling with cards, with a free opening…
- ◐Wombo ComboA combination of attacks from two teammates that ends a game in seconds, named after a 20…
- ●World of WarcraftThe massively multiplayer game that made the genre mainstream: twelve million subscribers…
- ◐Yume NikkiA girl called Madotsuki refuses to leave her flat, goes to bed, and explores dreams that …
- ●[Citation Needed]Wikipedia's tag for an unsourced claim, adopted by the internet as a joke to attach to an…
Died in 2010 31
- ▲Afro NinjaAn audition tape in which a man in an afro attempts a backflip, lands on his head, stagge…
- ☠Away MessageA short text left behind when you stepped away, usually song lyrics chosen to be read by …
- ☠Bury (Digg)To downvote a story on Digg into oblivion — the site's anonymous, unexplained negative vo…
- ▲Bus UncleA six-minute phone video from a Hong Kong bus in April 2006 in which a middle-aged man be…
- ▲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…
- ☠Chain EmailA message threatening bad luck unless forwarded to ten people. Did not die; it changed ho…
- ▲Chain Letter (Email)'Forward this to ten people or you will have bad luck' — the email chain letter, as the 1…
- ▲Command & ConquerA real-time strategy game with live-action cutscenes, a bald cult leader called Kane, and…
- ☠CuilA search engine that launched claiming a larger index than Google and returned pictures o…
- ▲Day of DefeatA Second World War team shooter that began as a Half-Life mod, was bought by Valve and be…
- ▲DesuThe Japanese copula — 'is', roughly — spammed on 4chan from 2005 as a reference to an ani…
- ☠DiggThe front page of the internet until version 4 shipped and the users left in a single wee…
- ☠Do Not WantDarth Vader's scream, mistranslated. The most useful three words the bootleg market ever …
- ▲Everything2A hyperlinked encyclopedia of nodes written by users, two years before Wikipedia. Lost on…
- ☠Google WaveEmail, chat and documents merged into one live-updating thing nobody could explain. Invit…
- ☠Halo 2The sequel that made Xbox Live: matchmaking, party chat, a ranking system, and a midnight…
- ▲Hey ClipTwo Israeli film students lip-syncing to the Pixies' 'Hey' in a bedroom in Ramle on 24 Au…
- ↺Homestar RunnerA cartoon website with no adverts, no algorithm and a regular update schedule. The Strong…
- ▲ICQ Uh-OhThe sound of someone wanting you. The first push notification, and the last one anybody w…
- ↺LimeWireThe green lime that gave a generation both its music library and its viruses. Shut by inj…
- ↺Mall GothTripp pants, a Slipknot hoodie, chains, a spiked collar and a devotion to Hot Topic — the…
- ☠MySpace AngleA camera held high and to the side, at arm's length, in a bathroom mirror. The first pose…
- ☠Old Spice GuyA shirtless man on a horse answering tweets in real time. The one advert that was a meme …
- ☠ROFLcopterA helicopter made of ROFL, in ASCII, with blades that spun — 'ROFL:ROFL:LOL' — as the mid…
- ↺RickrollA bait link resolving to Rick Astley. Has died and been resurrected more times than any o…
- ▲Shock SiteA website existing only to show one unbearable image, linked to the unsuspecting as a pra…
- ☠Surfing the WebMoving from page to page for the pleasure of it. Died as a phrase when there stopped bein…
- ▲The End of the WorldA 2003 Flash cartoon in which world leaders trade nuclear strikes in ninety seconds — 'WT…
- ☠Web 2.0Rounded corners, gradients, beta labels and the user as the product. The last version num…
- ▲You Are the Millionth VisitorThe flashing banner that announced you had won — 'You are the 1,000,000th visitor! Click …
From the blog, 2010
Give Up Internet Lovers! Happy New Year31 Dec 2010
Nazi vs. Israel [PIC]31 Dec 2010
Not the ultimate troll, but I'm damn proud of him. - Facebook [PIC]31 Dec 2010
Meanwhile in Japan [PIC]31 Dec 2010
Firefox Has Frozen [PIC]30 Dec 2010
Dog Missile [PIC]30 Dec 2010
Can't imagine why they're asking for the next booking... - Facebook [PIC]30 Dec 2010
I Love My Internet Explorer [PIC]30 Dec 2010
Achievement Unlocked - Stay Fat on Deserted Islan With Little Food - LOST [PIC]30 Dec 2010
Firefox Has Encountered An Unexpected Problem With Windows [PIC]30 Dec 2010
This is the result of Fox News [PIC]30 Dec 2010
I'm a Gamer [PIC]30 Dec 2010