1 March in internet history
Things that can be dated to 1 March: the day something was posted, a record that changed hands, an event research has pinned to a date. Every entry links to where it was read.
Nothing this archive holds can be dated to 1 March. That is a statement about what has been researched so far, not about the day.
Also around this weekWithin three days
These did not happen on 1 March. They are shown because the day itself is thin, and each one carries its own date.
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The Dress BuzzFeed publishes “The Dress Is Blue And Black”. Its Tumblr page peaks at 673,000 people on it at once, and the hashtag reaches eleven thousand tweets a minute. Wikipedia — The dress
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The Dress Roman Originals, having sold out of the dress within half an hour, announces it will make a single white-and-gold one to auction for Comic Relief. Wikipedia — The dress
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The Oscar selfie DeGeneres posts the photograph during the ceremony. It is retweeted 700,000 times in half an hour. Wikipedia — Oscar selfie
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The Game The webcomic xkcd publishes a strip declaring that its reader has won, and is free. Wikipedia — The Game (mind game)
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Trololo It is shown on The Colbert Report. Wikipedia — Trololo
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Simon's Cat Cat Man Do is uploaded to YouTube. Wikipedia — Simon’s Cat