An interactive view of the all the memes that swept across the internet and burrowed in our zeitgeist. Built from Wikipedia and Memelabs, open for you to add and maintain.
Created by tatercakes on 27/04/2008
Last updated: 10/03/15 at 18:53
The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing, on the user's desktop computer, a live 128x128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot.
In 1993 it was connected to the Internet, and word spread quickly by email on the first webcam ever. Although it was live (for the Cambridge university staff) since 1991, it wasn't until 1993 before web browsers could show inline pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_room_coffee_pot
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The Large Hadron Collider is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
http://lhcis42.com/
Paris Hilton Replies to a John McCain attack ad against Barack Obama.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
Joss Whedon's internet release musical about a loveable supervillain, his arch-enemy, and the girl caught between them was so popular on its release, it crashed the servers with millions of hits in two minutes.
http://www.drhorrible.com
The song that debuted on a commercial for a cable channel suddenly exploded from YouTube and swept the internet and had everyone singing "boom de yada"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZyPoxIT1E
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http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/
Pointing out all of lifes little failures.
http://failblog.org/
German Band "Elsterglanz" re-syncronises Movies in german dialect "sächsisch" (saxon-dialect). very funny!
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpmW4DTBi0
Little kid giving evil look
The Screamer makes her first appearance on Fark.com
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3224369
Un hombre detenido supuestamente por conducir en estado de ebriedad, no deja de repetir ante las autoridades que lo detuvieron, que "tiene miedo".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7zevPed3Ss
Two girls, robot heads, Daft Punk, a Sharpie or two, and a heck of a lot of time produced the sensation that took the legendary Daft Punk's popularity to a whole new level. Hundreds of rip offs ensued as the video has to date accumulated 5.26 million hits on YouTube. In 2008 Kanye West's release of "Stronger" helped refuel the fan fires of this video.
http://www.myspace.com/daftbodies
In a horrific fetishistic pornographic film, two young ladies defecate into a cup, exchange the fecal matter between their mouths, then proceed to swap vomit. In a strange turn, YouTube became on of the biggest supporters of the video when thousands of users began posting reactions to the appalling content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Girls_1_Cup
A song... that is:
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
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I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
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I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMDrv8Mx3E
Randy Pausch was a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture," titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at CMU on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk," i.e., "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?"
During the lecture, Pausch was upbeat and humorous, alternating between wisecracks, insights on computer science and engineering education, advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working in groups and interacting with other people, offering inspirational life lessons, and performing push-ups on stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_.22Last_Lecture.22
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava and internet history was born.
from Wikipedia:
Benny Lava was started when the video for Prabhu Deva's song, "Kalluri Vaanil" from the Indian Tamil movie, Pennin Manathai Thottu, was uploaded to YouTube by mondegreen director "Buffalax". The video was edited to include subtitles of the written English approximation of the video's original language's sound. In this case, he "translated" the Tamil "-dha nilaavo" into English as "Benny Lava". Since then, Prabhu Deva is commonly known on the internet as "Benny Lava". The video has occasionally been referred to as "the web's craziest dance clip" and has been made into a mobile phone ring tone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
The beginning of the lip dub phenomenon - you can thank Connected Ventures in NYC for that one...
Raymond Crowe is an Australian entertainer who has included many old vaudevillian routines in his show. This video is of his finale and has spread very quickly.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-3KwXpkkM
A simply disgusting video of a young man who's chin had been bitten by a spider. Being the man he was, he of course did not need to see a doctor. After sometime he decided it would be good to check the wound. The resulting video shows how devastating the damage caused by that bite was.
In 2007, 17-year-old DeAndre Ramone Way AKA Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, released a crunk rap song on the internet called "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and it automatically became one of the biggest selling singles of all time.
There's also a dance to that song in which Soulja Boy gave an instruction video for it, after that, thousands of people have been recording themselves doing it and posted it on websites such as MySpace, YouTube, etc.
Everywhere you go on the internet there will be either people doing the dance, pop culture fictional characters singing the song or versions of the song itself with different lyrics.
http://www.souljaboytellem.com
"El Show de la Barandilla" un show de Tv en Guadalajara, muestra una serie de videoclips con personas detenidas en estado de ebriedad. Las más notorias son "Yo soy hijo del papá" (2° clip), y "Yo poleo con la gente que es mala" (7° clip).
"El Show de la Barandilla"; a TV show in Guadalajara, shows a series of video clips with people detained in a state of drunkenness. The most notorious are "I am the son of Dad"; (2 ° clip), and "I poleo with people who are poor"; (7 ° clip).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAAW3gXf5M
Amber Lee Ettinger (born October 2, 1982) is an American actress and model best known as Obama Girl in her online video "I Got a Crush... on Obama" -- referring to 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama -- which has earned her scores of media appearances, from a part in a Saturday Night Live sketch with Fred Armisen as Obama to an interview on Geraldo at Large with Geraldo Rivera.
http://obamagirl.com/
Random kid at a fair proclaims love for turtles. As is mandatory for all random stuff on youtube, the clip was simple and hilarious enough to get remixed and mashed up all over youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+like+turtles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
Scene from the movie Downfall showing Hitler in his bunker during the last days of the war. The speech is in German and subtitles are placed through the scene which show Hitler throwing a fit because his Xbox 360 was banned by Microsoft from playing on Xbox Live Other versions have also been subtitled to show Hitler angry about the performance of a sports team, being framed for child molestation, having computer problems, and other scenarios.
The original Daft Hands video to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk. Spawned a Daft meme craze, including the nearly-as-famous Daft Bodies video.
http://www.frecklestudios.com
Michael Buckley AKA peron75 AKA WHATTHEBUCKSHOW is a internet comedian. Noted for his vlog What the Buck?, Buckley gives humorous commentary on popular culture. He also maintains one of YouTube's most popular channels with several million viewers each month. In October 2007, Buckley "broke all records" of YouTube ratings when four of his shows ended up on the week’s 10 top-rated videos. Buckley has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times discussing Internet entrepreneurship and The Advocate discussing homophobia on the internet. On 18 March 2008, he won a 2007 YouTube Awards for best commentary with the video "LonelyGirl15 is Dead!".
Buckley, who is openly gay, has a husband Michael, and lives in Connecticut with their four dogs Ellie, George, Colin and Buddy. To show his fans his "softer side", Buckley has also begun to vlog about their home life
http://www.buckhollywood.com
"Chocolate Rain" is a song and music video written and performed by Tay Zonday, a 25-year-old songwriter and vocalist.
After being posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, the song quickly became popular with over 20 million views as of April 17, 2008, and has gained further popularity thanks to the help of a recent South Park episode that features his likeness.
The music video portrays a bespectacled Zonday in a recording studio wearing a white T-shirt and singing into a condenser microphone. Occasional cutbacks to Zonday playing a digital piano are also shown. The song, and its writer/performer, attracted major media attention. "Chocolate Rain" is ranked as the hottest viral video of Summer 2007 by CTV.ca and as the number 2 viral video in the world by utalkmarketing.com. It was the winner in the Music category in the 2007 YouTube Awards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
Rickrolling is a prank and Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive. A person who falls for the prank is said to be "rickrolled". The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank originating from the imageboard 4chan called duckrolling, in which a link to a popular celebrity or news item would instead lead to a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels. The first instance occurred on the site, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic).
After 300 was released in theatres, the line "This is Sparta!" became a has been played, remixed and parodied countless times on the internet. For some reason, internet users never get sick of it.
Essex boy kicking a concrete slab wall only to have his ankle broken.
This is one of James Best Enterprises work through online galery. I liked this piece of art because of the way it is designed. By Asmo Dol
First aired on Saturday Night Live before leaped to the internet, Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake have a very special christmas present for the one they truely love, their penis!
A small darling baby laughing like the seed of Satan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk
A little boy headbutts his little brother in the face and gets really upset that the baby starts bleeding. This video is priceless.
Will It Blend? is a viral marketing campaign consisting of a series of 30 second to two minute infomercials demonstrating the Blendtec line of blenders, especially the Total Blender. In the show, Tom Dickson, the Blendtec founder, attempts to blend various items in order to show off the power of his blender. Dickson started this marketing campaign after doing a blending attempt with a box of matches.
http://www.willitblend.com/
Impossible is Nothing is a 2006 video résumé by self-styled 'CEO and Professional Athlete' Aleksey Vayner (formerly Aleksey Garber) which became an Internet meme.
In October 2006, Yale University student Aleksey Vayner applied for a job with UBS AG. Amused by Vayner's apparent puffery, an unknown member of UBS staff emailed his application materials to other investment banks. They were soon posted on various blogs, then YouTube, from where they became an immense viral Internet phenomenon.
The video opens with a staged interview between Vayner and an offscreen voice. However, the "interview" ultimately consists of a single question, to which Vayner gives a lengthy, rambling response. Using considerable amounts of business-speak jargon, Vayner praises himself and shares his various insights on success, talent, and overcoming adversity. Interspliced with the interview we see clips of Vayner performing various feats designed to look impressive, including bench pressing, skiing, playing tennis, ballroom dancing, and finally karate-chopping a stack of bricks. The video ends with a dedication, and a fairly lengthy credits sequence.
http://www.ivygateblog.com/images/vayner.pdf
Liam Kyle Sullivan stars as a grandmother with an eastern Massachusetts accent and her grandchild named Johnny. The whole video is a commercial for a fictional muffin company called Cunningham Muffins, it's also a parody of other muffin commercials. The lady goes on and on and tells you, literally, all the flavors that Cunningham Muffins has.
The video first appeared on MySpace, then a little while later, it was officially launched on YouTube.
http://www.liamshow.com
Fragmento de la publicidad de un producto para aumentar el apetito sexual. Cuando la pareja cuenta su experiencia con el producto, la mujer dice "Lo miraba y le decía, no, de nuevo no..." Y el contesta: "NO DE NUEVO, DECÍA!"
http://www.taringa.net/posts/videos/1034384/No-de-nuevo-decia!---varios-videos.html
HeadOn is a topical product formerly claimed to relieve headaches, produced by Miralus Healthcare, which says it is a homeopathic remedy.
The company became known for its television commercials which featured the phrase "HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead" stated three times; these ads have become an Internet meme.
HeadOn's notoriety came in part due to its advertisements on cable and daytime programming on broadcast television which consisted of using only the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession, accompanied by a video of a model using the product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
Like so many repetitive and often catchy dances that swept the net, Caramelldansen quickly rose the ranks as a very popular internet meme. It repeats the same few second sequence from the opening of the Visual Novel Popotan.
Like the Hamster Dance before it, the background music takes from another song remixed. The "Caramelldansen Speedycake Remix" is a sped up version of Swedish band Carmel's song Caramelldansen.
It has sparked many parodies featuring other anime and video game characters.
Like Over 9000 CaramelDansen has claimed much of its Western fame through the Web comic site, Vgcats. Its creator Scott Ramsomeir made several posts on the meme as well as his own version of it featuring his characters Aeris and Leo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6e7sO1ss0
Here's another early viral video that was posted during YouTube's social impact, this one features an Indian midget doing a dance while freezing every once in a while. The music he's dancing to is MC Miker G & DJ Sven's remix to the Madonna song "Holiday". You gotta admit, he's got smove moves. This is actually a clip from the 1990 Indian Tamil language movie "Adhisaya Piravi".
lonelygirl15 is an interactive web-based video series. At first, it centered on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15".
Now it revolves around her friends and family. The series is presented through short, regularly updated videoblogs posted by the fictional characters.
Lonelygirl15 came to international attention ostensibly as a real video blogger who achieved massive popularity on YouTube, a popular video sharing website, but was eventually outed by suspicious viewers as a fictional show featuring lead character played by American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.
http://www.myspace.com/lonelygirl15
LittleKuriboh met with great success by cutting down episodes of the popular anime, Yu-Gi-Oh, to bite-sized pieces and re-recording his own humorous dialogue. The series became so popular that people began creating their own "abridged series" out of other anime, ranging from Naruto to Yu Yu Hakusho.
www.yugiohtheabridgedseries.com
The "Chicken Noodle Soup" is a dance that inspired the hip-hop club hit "Chicken Noodle Soup" performed by DJ Webstar, Young B., and The Voice of Harlem, for the song has peaked at #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 trajectory and was released in 2006. Originating in Harlem, the dance has been embraced as a new symbol of the local scene that distinguishes New York from other regions whose urban musical subgenres have captured national attention in recent years, such as Atlanta's Crunk, Walk It Out and Snap, New Orleans' Bounce music, Oakland's Hyphy, Chicago's Footwork or California's Krumpin and C-Walk, Philadelphia's Wu-tang or D-Mack, New Jersey's Crazy Legs, In-Toe and Swing It, Baltimore's Rockin Off and Memphis's Buckin. Awareness of the dance spread during 2006 thanks to websites such as YouTube, which hosted numerous videos of people dancing the Chicken Noodle Soup. Blogs that linked to these videos helped turn this dance into an internet phenomenon.
The basic dance features exaggerated shuffling, arm swinging, and a pantomime of the song's lyrics. Detractors have derided the whole Chicken Noodle Soup phenomenon as irritating and corny. Some have even claimed the dance is racist, as its motions bear some resemblance to those commonly performed in minstrel shows. The Chicken Noodle Soup is a development from other New York-based street dances like the popular Toe Wop and The Harlem shake. On the December 16, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake performed the dance in drag, accompanied by Kenan Thompson (also in drag). Chicken Noodle Soup led Dj Webstar to make new song that accompanied the Chicken Noodle Soup called the 5000. The 5000 put four dances together; The Tone Wop, The Bad One, Chicken Noodle Soup, and the Harlem shake. Then this dance evolved into a new dance without a definitive name, but known as "Gettin' Lite", or "Lockin' In." Also this inspired many new dancers to express themselves in way such that it is commonly performed in teen clubs, parties and high school affairs in New York. Additionally, some suggest this dance phenomina has evolved to mimic movments similar to those done in vouging. A dance art form that gained attention during the mid-eighties.
http://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chicken_Noodle_Soup_(song)
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