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1999·Early web, before YouTube

Mahir Cagri

The first person the whole internet laughed at, and he had only made a homepage.

You might remember it as I Kiss You, Mahir Çağrı

From the early web

The story

What this was

A Turkish journalist's personal page — I KISS YOU!!!!! — passed around in 1999 until it was reported worldwide. One of the earliest cases of a private individual becoming globally famous from a web page he made himself, and of what that costs.

It first appeared in 1999, during early web, before YouTube.

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Early web, before YouTube

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Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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A Turkish journalist's personal page — I KISS YOU!!!!! — passed around in 1999 until it was reported worldwide. One of the earliest cases of a private individual becoming globally famous from a web page he made himself, and of what that costs.
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