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The internet in 2007

2007 was the year of Leave Britney Alone, Charlie bit my finger, Chocolate Rain and Battle at Kruger. Part of early YouTube.

The one from 2007

Leave Britney Alone

You might remember it as Chris Crocker Britney

A piece to camera that the internet spent a decade laughing at and then agreed with.

Defining moments of 2007What the year is remembered for

2007, month by monthAs it happened

  1. Lolcat The site I Can Has Cheezburger? posts its first image, reportedly taken from Something Awful. Its popularity over the following year carries lolcats to a general audience. Wikipedia — Lolcat

  2. Tumblr The site is launched. Wikipedia — Tumblr

  3. Reblogging Twitter users begin repeating each other’s posts by hand. One calls it an “echo”. Wikipedia — Reblogging

  4. The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet A recording from the cassette is uploaded online and his sister, Lydia, begins asking on Usenet whether anybody recognises it. Wikipedia — The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

  5. Potter Puppet Pals The Mysterious Ticking Noise is uploaded. Wikipedia — Potter Puppet Pals

  6. Chocolate Rain Tay Zonday uploads the song to his YouTube channel. Wikipedia — Chocolate Rain

  7. Battle at Kruger The footage is uploaded to YouTube, more than two and a half years after it was shot. Wikipedia — Battle at Kruger

  8. Rickrolling Shawn Cotter uploads the Astley video to YouTube as “Rickroll’D” and it is passed off as a link to the Grand Theft Auto IV trailer. This is the first known rickroll. Wikipedia — Rickrolling

  9. Charlie bit my finger Howard Davies-Carr uploads the clip so that the boys’ grandfather in the United States can see it. The file was too large to email. He first sets it to private and comes close to deleting it. Wikipedia — Charlie Bit My Finger

  10. Keyboard Cat Schmidt uploads the tape to YouTube as “charlie schmidt’s ‘cool cat’”. Wikipedia — Keyboard Cat

  11. Dramatic Chipmunk The earliest known version is uploaded to YouTube by the channel magnets99 under the title Dramatic Look. Wikipedia — Dramatic Chipmunk

  12. Dramatic Chipmunk YouTube and CollegeHumor both feature it. Wikipedia — Dramatic Chipmunk

  13. Battle at Kruger Time magazine writes about the video. Wikipedia — Battle at Kruger

  14. CPDRC Dancing Inmates Garcia uploads Thriller. Wikipedia — CPDRC Dancing Inmates

  15. The hashtag Chris Messina proposes it in a tweet. Wikipedia — Hashtag

  16. Hatsune Miku The software is released. Wikipedia — Hatsune Miku

  17. Success Kid Laney Griner posts the photograph of her son to Flickr under the title “Why I oughta...”. Wikipedia — Success Kid

  18. Leave Britney Alone The first part is posted to MySpace, in response to Britney Spears’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Wikipedia — Leave Britney Alone!

  19. Leave Britney Alone The second part, titled “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!”, is posted to YouTube. It is watched more than two million times in its first day. Wikipedia — Leave Britney Alone!

  20. Don't Tase Me, Bro! Meyer’s microphone is cut off, officers hold him down, and one uses a Taser on him. Wikipedia — University of Florida Taser incident

  21. Techno Viking Having been posted to Break.com, it is being watched more than a million times a day. Wikipedia — Technoviking

  22. ASMR Somebody describes the feeling on a health forum, in a thread headed “Weird sensation feels good”. Wikipedia — ASMR

  23. CPDRC Dancing Inmates Time ranks it fifth in its list of the year’s viral videos. Wikipedia — CPDRC Dancing Inmates

Also in 2007Older things, still moving

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

  2. Second Life Sweden opens an embassy in it. Wikipedia — Second Life

  3. Digg Digg removes posts containing a code for copying HD DVDs, and reverses the decision when its users revolt. Wikipedia — Digg

  4. StumbleUpon eBay buys it for more than 75 million dollars. Wikipedia — StumbleUpon

  5. Club Penguin Disney buys it. Wikipedia — Club Penguin

  6. Battle at Kruger ABC News features it in the first episode of its programme i-Caught. Wikipedia — Battle at Kruger

  7. Chocolate Rain Zonday performs it on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wikipedia — Chocolate Rain

  8. The hashtag Stowe Boyd publishes the words “hash tag” in a blog post. Wikipedia — Hashtag

  9. Loituma Girl A producer called Otomania has Hatsune Miku sing the song. The small cartoon Miku in the video holds a spring onion in reference to the animation. Wikipedia — Ievan polkka

  10. Don't Tase Me, Bro! A state investigation finds the officers’ actions justified. Wikipedia — University of Florida Taser incident

  11. Chocolate Rain He releases Cherry Chocolate Rain, a version of his own song made to advertise a Dr Pepper drink. Wikipedia — Chocolate Rain

  12. Chuck Norris facts Norris sues the publisher of a book of them. He drops the case the next year. Wikipedia — Chuck Norris facts

  13. Lolcat The Los Angeles Times covers the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, which is rendering scripture into lolspeak. Wikipedia — Lolcat

The videos of 2007Watched

More from 2007Also remembered

On this page: 28 named things from 2007, 17 videos, 3 memes, 3 sounds and sayings and 3 trends among them.

The years either sideNearby