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30 March in internet history

Things that can be dated to 30 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.

What is dated to this day30 March

  1. The magazine Puck prints faces made of punctuation marks, weeks after a Warsaw newspaper had done the same. The :-) emoticon Wikipedia — Emoticon

  2. Dickson blends things on The Tonight Show. Will It Blend? Wikipedia — Will It Blend?

Also around this weekWithin three days

These did not happen on 30 March. They are shown because the day itself is thin, and each one carries its own date.

  1. With 1.17 million dislikes it passes Justin Bieber’s Baby as the most disliked video on YouTube. Rebecca Black Friday Wikipedia — Friday (Rebecca Black song)

  2. The Japanese service, which had kept running, is closed. GeoCities Wikipedia — GeoCities

  3. A video is posted of a boy, Maverick Trevillian, yelling the numbers. He becomes known as the 67 Kid. 6-7 meme Wikipedia — 6-7 meme

  4. Seven people put up signs bearing the phrase around Sturgis, Michigan, as an April Fools’ joke. During the Iraq war, residents are alarmed. All Your Base Are Belong To Us Wikipedia — All your base are belong to us

  5. Every featured link on YouTube’s homepage leads to the video. It is watched 6.6 million times that day. Rickrolling Wikipedia — Rickrolling

  6. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance took the title — the first music video to do so, beginning a hold by music videos that has never since been broken. Wikipedia — List of most-viewed YouTube videos

  7. Google publishes an April Fools’ game that hides Pokémon in Google Maps. The idea of a real one follows from it. Pokémon Go Wikipedia — Pokémon Go

  8. China’s CCTV airs a report that Kabosu has died. It is an April Fools’ hoax. Doge Wikipedia — Doge (meme)

  9. Brolsma uploads the original to his own YouTube channel, more than twelve years after he made it. Numa Numa Wikipedia — Numa Numa (video)

  10. The track is released as an April Fools’ joke. Crab Rave Wikipedia — Crab Rave

  11. A Discord April Fools' video reached about a billion views in under a day because an in-app notification looped it for everyone with the app open. YouTube later revised the figure down to the low millions. Tubefilter

  12. South Park’s episode Canada on Strike features the song, and the video gains more than a million views. Chocolate Rain Wikipedia — Chocolate Rain

  13. South Park parodies it in the episode Canada on Strike. Leave Britney Alone Wikipedia — Leave Britney Alone!

  14. Christopher Torres posts an animated GIF of a cat with a pastry for a body on his site LOL-Comics. He calls it Pop Tart Cat. Nyan Cat Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

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