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The internet in 2011

2011 was the year of Nyan Cat, Rebecca Black Friday, Why This Kolaveri Di and Ai Se Eu Te Pego. Part of the social era.

Nyan Cat
The one from 2011

Nyan Cat

You might remember it as Pop Tart cat, Nyan Cat original 10 hours

One of the most recognisable objects the internet has produced, and a clean origin question between animation and song.

Defining moments of 2011What the year is remembered for

2011, month by monthAs it happened

  1. The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger The video appears on YouTube. Wikipedia — The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger

  2. Rebecca Black Friday The video is posted to YouTube. Wikipedia — Friday (Rebecca Black song)

  3. Rebecca Black Friday A tweet from Michael J. Nelson and a post on the Tosh.0 blog send it round. Wikipedia — Friday (Rebecca Black song)

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

  5. Nyan Cat 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. Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

  6. Nyan Cat The YouTube user saraj00n sets the GIF to the cover version and uploads it under the title Nyan Cat. Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

  7. Situation Room Souza takes the photograph from a corner of a small conference room. Wikipedia — Situation Room (photograph)

  8. The monkey selfie The photographs are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia — Monkey selfie copyright dispute

  9. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared The first short is released on YouTube. Wikipedia — Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

  10. Nek Minnit The clip has been watched 600,000 times. Wikipedia — Nek minnit

  11. Ai Se Eu Te Pego Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo dance to it after Ronaldo scores against Málaga. Wikipedia — Ai Se Eu Te Pego

  12. dril The “corncob” tweet. Wikipedia — Dril

  13. Why This Kolaveri Di The song is reported to have leaked online by accident. Wikipedia — Why This Kolaveri Di

  14. Why This Kolaveri Di It is officially released. Wikipedia — Why This Kolaveri Di

  15. Why This Kolaveri Di #kolaveri is the top trend on Twitter in India, where it stays for three days. Wikipedia — Why This Kolaveri Di

  16. Why This Kolaveri Di The video has 10.5 million views on YouTube, two weeks after its release. Wikipedia — Why This Kolaveri Di

  17. Nek Minnit It has 1.5 million views, and the phrase is the sixth most searched term in New Zealand for the year. Wikipedia — Nek minnit

  18. Woman yelling at a cat The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs the episode “Malibu Beach Party From Hell”. A still of Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing circulates after a Daily Mail article the next day. Wikipedia — Woman yelling at a cat

  19. SuperWhoLock The earliest piece of it that one researcher has found. The word is older. Wikipedia — SuperWhoLock

Also in 2011Older things, still moving

  1. Selfie The hashtag is used on Instagram for the first time. Wikipedia — Selfie

  2. Social media and the Arab Spring Egypt, having blocked Facebook and Twitter, is reported to have cut off the internet altogether. Wikipedia — Social media and the Arab Spring

  3. Nyan Cat A user called Momomomo uploads a cover of the song using a different synthesised voice. Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

  4. Delicious Yahoo sells it, the first of four further sales. Wikipedia — Delicious (website)

  5. Polandball The subreddit r/polandball is created. Wikipedia — Polandball

  6. Boom Goes the Dynamite Collins is the subject of a “Web Redemption” on the television programme Tosh.0. He says he has not covered sport since 2005. Wikipedia — Boom goes the dynamite

  7. Rebecca Black Friday YouTube removes the video after a copyright claim by Black, who is in dispute with ARK Music. Wikipedia — Friday (Rebecca Black song)

  8. Cyworld The personal data of about 35 million users of it and a sister site is stolen. Wikipedia — Cyworld

  9. Boo A book, Boo: The Life of the World’s Cutest Dog, is published. Wikipedia — Boo (dog)

  10. Keep Calm and Carry On A company is reported to have registered the slogan as a trademark. Wikipedia — Keep Calm and Carry On

  11. Horse_ebooks Followers notice that the tweets are now being sent from the website, by hand. Bakkila has taken the account over. Wikipedia — Horse ebooks

  12. Rebecca Black Friday The video returns, on Black’s own channel. Wikipedia — Friday (Rebecca Black song)

  13. Nico Nico Douga It has 23.69 million registered users. Wikipedia — Niconico

  14. Trololo Khil performs the song live on a New Year television programme. Wikipedia — Trololo

More from 2011Also remembered

On this page: 20 named things from 2011, 7 videos, 2 memes, 2 sounds and sayings and 5 trends among them.

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