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The internet in 2013

2013 was the year of Doge, Harlem Shake, This is fine and What Does the Fox Say. Part of the social era.

The one from 2013

Doge

You might remember it as Doge Shiba Inu

Culturally enormous but the underlying object is a photograph.

Defining moments of 2013What the year is remembered for

2013, month by monthAs it happened

  1. Cicada 3301 A second begins. Wikipedia — Cicada 3301

  2. Harlem Shake George Miller uploads a comedy sketch, as his character Pink Guy, set to the track. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  3. Giphy The site is launched. Wikipedia — Giphy

  4. Harlem Shake Versions are being uploaded at a rate of four thousand a day, one every 21.6 seconds. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  5. Harlem Shake About forty thousand versions exist, watched more than 700 million times between them. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  6. The Wealdstone Raider The clip is uploaded, the day after the match. Wikipedia — Wealdstone Raider

  7. Harlem Shake The versions together pass one billion views. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  8. Flappy Bird The game is released for the iPhone. Wikipedia — Flappy Bird

  9. r/AmItheAsshole The forum is launched. Wikipedia — r/AmItheAsshole

  10. Club Penguin It has more than 200 million registered accounts. Wikipedia — Club Penguin

  11. Doge Searches for the meme begin to rise. Wikipedia — Doge (meme)

  12. Doge Users of 4chan’s /b/ board flood the subreddit r/MURICA with Doge images. Wikipedia — Doge (meme)

  13. Giphy GIFs from it can be posted on Facebook. Twitter follows about three months later. Wikipedia — Giphy

  14. What Does the Fox Say The video is released on the YouTube channel of the Norwegian broadcaster TVNorge. Wikipedia — The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

  15. What Does the Fox Say It reaches number one in Norway, where it stays for four weeks. Wikipedia — The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

  16. dril The tweet setting out a monthly budget that includes 3,600 dollars for candles. Wikipedia — Dril

  17. Dogecoin The currency is launched, as a joke. Wikipedia — Dogecoin

Also in 2013Older things, still moving

  1. Techno Viking A case brought by the man in the video against Fritsch, over the use of his image, opens in Berlin. Wikipedia — Technoviking

  2. Harlem Shake Five Australian teenagers, posting as The Sunny Coast Skate, upload the version that sets the format. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  3. Harlem Shake The song enters the Billboard Hot 100 at number one. Wikipedia — Harlem Shake (meme)

  4. Bilibili An entrance test of a hundred questions is introduced for new members. Wikipedia — Bilibili

  5. Overly Attached Girlfriend She appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Wikipedia — Overly Attached Girlfriend

  6. Grumpy Cat She appears on Good Morning America and sits for a Time photo shoot on the same day. Wikipedia — Grumpy Cat

  7. Ain't Nobody Got Time for That Wilkins sues Apple for fifteen million US dollars over a song sold on iTunes that used her words. The case is later dismissed. Wikipedia — Sweet Brown

  8. Keyboard Cat Schmidt and Christopher Torres, who made Nyan Cat, sue Warner Bros. over the use of both characters in the Scribblenauts games. The case is settled that September with both men paid. Wikipedia — Keyboard Cat

  9. Nyan Cat Torres and Charles Schmidt, who made Keyboard Cat, sue Warner Bros. over the use of both characters in a video game. The case is settled that September. Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

  10. Badger Badger Badger Picking releases Save the Badger Badger Badger, with Brian May and Brian Blessed. Wikipedia — Badgers (animation)

  11. Tumblr Yahoo announces that it is buying Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Wikipedia — Tumblr

  12. Techno Viking The court finds for the man. Fritsch is ordered to pay 13,000 euros in damages and to stop publishing his image. Wikipedia — Technoviking

  13. Black Twitter A book deal for a juror in the George Zimmerman trial is abandoned after pressure on Twitter. Wikipedia — Black Twitter

  14. Grumpy Cat Chronicle Books publishes Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book. Wikipedia — Grumpy Cat

  15. Lazy Sunday The programme’s own YouTube channel posts the original. Wikipedia — Lazy Sunday (The Lonely Island song)

  16. Grumpy Cat Friskies names her its official spokescat. Wikipedia — Grumpy Cat

  17. What Does the Fox Say The song enters the Billboard Hot 100 at number 29. It peaks at number six. Wikipedia — The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

  18. Horse_ebooks The account is revealed to be part of a performance-art project by Bakkila. It has not posted since. Wikipedia — Horse ebooks

  19. Spooky, Scary Skeletons The Living Tombstone releases a faster remix. Wikipedia — Spooky, Scary Skeletons

  20. Selfie Oxford Dictionaries names it word of the year. Wikipedia — Selfie

  21. Doge Dogecoin launches, named after the meme and carrying Kabosu’s face. In the same month members of the United States Congress post Doge-style material of their own. Wikipedia — Doge (meme)

  22. What Does the Fox Say Simon & Schuster publishes it as a children’s picture book, which sells more than sixty thousand copies in a week. Wikipedia — The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

The videos of 2013Watched

More from 2013Also remembered

On this page: 20 named things from 2013, 9 videos, 2 memes, 2 sounds and sayings and 3 trends among them.

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