ViralWorld

Most viral ever

The moments that got out of their own corner of the internet and became things everybody knew.

How this list is chosen

Cultural reach, not view count. A record qualifies when this archive has judged it canonical — it carries a name people still use, it is documented well enough to stand up, and its influence shows in the catalogue as other records that reference, remix or descend from it. This is an editorial claim about cultural spread and is not a measurement of audience size.

The big ones

The :-) emoticon

You might remember it as joke marker, Scott Fahlman smiley

Three characters that solved the oldest problem in text, and are still solving it.

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