Homestar Runner
You might remember it as Strong Bad Email, Homestar Runner cartoon
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2000·Early web, before YouTube
The web cartoon a whole cohort grew up quoting, and a self-published animation model that predates the platforms.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Strong Bad Email
- Spread in
- 2000
- Began as
- A web animation
- Where it started
- homestarrunner.com
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What it createdWhat came out of it
- It became Trogdor the Burninator2003
Trogdor is a dragon drawn in a Strong Bad Email, one of the cartoons on the Homestar Runner site.
- The meme it became DogeMeme · 2013
The word “doge” was first used, as a misspelling of dog, in a 2005 episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet series.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on homestarrunner.com.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on homestarrunner.com.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.