Early web, before YouTube
Before anybody could upload a video, things spread as files, forwards and Flash.
Start with this one
Crazy Frog
You might remember it as Axel F, Ringding and 1 more
A Swedish teenager imitating a two-stroke engine, sold as a ringtone to the entire world.
The ones people still talk about
- Rejected Cartoons 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Bad Day office video 1997Early web, before YouTube
- Dancing Baby 1996Early web, before YouTube
- Shipping 1996Early web, before YouTube
- Scary Maze Game 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Dean Scream 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Salad Fingers 2004Early web, before YouTube
- This Land (JibJab) 2004Early web, before YouTube
The whole shelf
- Numa Numa 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Dean Scream 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Salad Fingers 2004Early web, before YouTube
- This Land (JibJab) 2004Early web, before YouTube
- The Subservient Chicken 2004Early web, before YouTube
- YTMND 2004Early web, before YouTube
- I Love Bees 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Orkut 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Digg 2004Early web, before YouTube
- TV Tropes 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Badger Badger Badger 2003Early web, before YouTube
- The End of the World 2003Early web, before YouTube
- The Streisand effect 2003Early web, before YouTube
- O RLY? 2003Early web, before YouTube
- 4chan 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Crazy Frog 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Tom Anderson 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Delicious 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Movember 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Second Life 2003Early web, before YouTube
- StumbleUpon 2002Early web, before YouTube
- The Game 2002Early web, before YouTube
- Peanut Butter Jelly Time 2001Early web, before YouTube
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Something Awful 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Xiao Xiao 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Cyworld 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Homestar Runner 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Techno Viking 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Newgrounds 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Hot or Not 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Chinese Internet slang 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Mahir Cagri 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Neopets 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Fark 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Rubber duck debugging 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Hampster Dance 1997Early web, before YouTube
- Dancing Baby 1996Early web, before YouTube
- GeoCities 1996Early web, before YouTube
- The GIF 1996Early web, before YouTube
- JenniCam 1996Early web, before YouTube
- Shipping 1996Early web, before YouTube
- The Spirit of Christmas 1995Early web, before YouTube
- Godwin's law 1994Early web, before YouTube
- Nokia tune 1994Early web, before YouTube
- Eternal September 1993Early web, before YouTube
- The Trojan Room coffee pot 1991Early web, before YouTube
- Scary Maze Game 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Ding Dong Song 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil 2004Early web, before YouTube
- The snowclone 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Trogdor the Burninator 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Kung Fu Bear 2002Early web, before YouTube
- Weebl and Bob 2002Early web, before YouTube
- Animutation 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Happy Tree Friends 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Hatten är din 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Rejected Cartoons 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Germano Mosconi 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Star Wars Gangsta Rap 2000Early web, before YouTube
