The early web
Flash cartoons, pages that would not leave you alone, and things that only ever existed in a browser.
Start with this one
The Trojan Room coffee pot
You might remember it as Cambridge coffee cam
The world's first webcam, pointed at a coffee machine so nobody would walk to an empty pot.
The whole shelf
- JenniCam 1996Early web, before YouTube
- Hampster Dance 1997Early web, before YouTube
- Hot or Not 2000Early web, before YouTube
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Xiao Xiao 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Badger Badger Badger 2003Early web, before YouTube
- The Subservient Chicken 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Nico Nico Douga 2006Early YouTube
- Wordle 2021Short-form and streams
- Mahir Cagri 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Fark 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Homestar Runner 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Peanut Butter Jelly Time 2001Early web, before YouTube
- Cyworld 2001Early web, before YouTube
- StumbleUpon 2002Early web, before YouTube
- The End of the World 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Delicious 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Second Life 2003Early web, before YouTube
- Salad Fingers 2004Early web, before YouTube
- This Land (JibJab) 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Orkut 2004Early web, before YouTube
- Digg 2004Early web, before YouTube
- TV Tropes 2004Early web, before YouTube
- The Million Dollar Homepage 2005Early YouTube
- Animator vs. Animation 2006Early YouTube
- Tumblr 2007Early YouTube
- Bilibili 2009Early YouTube
- Weibo 2009Early YouTube
- Omegle 2009Early YouTube
- Giphy 2013The social era
- Flappy Bird 2014The social era
- Tenor 2014The social era
- Tunak Tunak Tun 1998Early web, before YouTube
- Mahir Çağrı 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Frog in a Blender 1999Early web, before YouTube
- Happy Tree Friends 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Hatten är din 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Rejected Cartoons 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Star Wars Gangsta Rap 2000Early web, before YouTube
- Weebl and Bob 2002Early web, before YouTube
- Trogdor the Burninator 2003Early 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 Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny 2005Early YouTube
- They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard 2005Early YouTube
- Loituma Girl 2006Early YouTube
- Line Rider 2006Early YouTube
- QWOP 2010The social era
- Cookie Clicker 2013The social era
