19 August in internet history
Things that can be dated to 19 August: 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.
On this day19 August
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The person behind it is identified as a fifteen-year-old. Deez Nuts Wikipedia — Deez Nuts (politician)
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A tweet labels the girlfriend capitalism and the passing woman socialism. This is the post the format spreads from. Distracted boyfriend Wikipedia — Distracted boyfriend
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A baseball commentator interrupts his own on-air apology to describe a home run, and the sentence becomes a copypasta. Copypasta Wikipedia — Copypasta