Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
"Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?" becomes a top searched term on Google.
George W Bush shoes attack in Bagdad
An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at Mr. Bush’s head and denounced him on live television as a “dog” who had delivered death and sorrow here from nearly six years of war. The video spread very ...
Jizz in my pants
Sickie Woo - Busted with the help of Facebook
After a particularly heavy night out Kyle Doyle decided that he would phone in sick and treat himself to a day in bed.To celebrate his day off Kyle, a 21-year-old call centre worker, updated the st...
Chairman cracks under pressure
SABC 2 Live with Chairperson of the finance portfolio committee - Nhlanhla Nene
LHC is 42
The Large Hadron Collider is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
Paris Hilton For President 2008
Paris Hilton Replies to a John McCain attack ad against Barack Obama.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
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...
Pork and Beans
Within days of its launch, the Weezer music video for their song "Pork and Beans" from their upcoming Red Album became a viral hit staring nearly every recognizable internet meme/person from 1990s ...
Channel Awesome
Channel Awesome is a company that sponsors many internet personalities, including ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, a comedy website, Blistered Thumbs, a series which reviews video games, etc. The company wa...
Big Dog
Boston Dynamics posted up this video of an eery dog robot they'd been working on, which apart from being excellent work, gaining notoriety for the 'kick' delivered to the 'dog' part way through. Wi...
Ken Lee
Ken Lee ("Can't live") is a garbled interpretation of the song Without You, performed by Valentina Hasan (Bulgarian: Валентина Хасан), a contestant auditioning for the Bulgarian show Music Idol in ...
Chanology
Anonymous takes on the Church of Scientology
Der Beste Koch der Welt (World´s best chef)
German Band "Elsterglanz" re-syncronises Movies in german dialect "sächsisch" (saxon-dialect). very funny!
Evil look Baby
Little kid giving evil look
I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)
I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song) is a novelty dance song by German composer Christian Schneider and released by Gummibear International that received international and internet meme succe...
Tengo Miedo!
Un hombre detenido supuestamente por conducir en estado de ebriedad, no deja de repetir ante las autoridades que lo detuvieron, que "tiene miedo".
2 Girls 1 Cup
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 o...
Interior Cocodrile Alligator
A song... that is: Interior crocodile alligator; I drive a Chevrolet movie theater. Interior crocodile alligator; I drive a Chevrolet movie theater. Interior crocodile alligator; I drive a Chevrole...
"The Last Lecture"
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 wit...
Don't Tase me, Bro!
U.S. Senator John Kerry addressed a Constitution Day forum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which was organized by the ACCENT Speaker's Bureau, an agency of the university's student gov...
Miss Teen South Carolina - Caitlin Upton
She is best known for her garbled response to a question that was asked of her during the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant. Upton responded: I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do...
Benny Lava
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 M...
The birth of lip dub.
The beginning of the lip dub phenomenon - you can thank Connected Ventures in NYC for that one...
Spiderbite
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...
Crank That
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 si...
Lo Mejor del Show de la Barandilla
"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 p...
Pet Foireux dans le Jaccuzzi
Obama Girl
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 Barac...
I Likes Turtles
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...
Hitler Gets Banned From Xbox Live
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 beca...
Daft Hands
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.
Michael Buckley
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 m...
Chocolate Rain
"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 popu...
RickRoll
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 a...
Potter Puppet Pals
Boy kicking a wall
Essex boy kicking a concrete slab wall only to have his ankle broken.
Frame
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
Dick In a Box
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!
Blood!
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?
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, T...
Impossible Is Nothing
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 Universit...
Muffins
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 Muff...
Kung Fu Baby
HeadOn
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 wh...
Caramelldansen
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 ...
Little Superstar
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 ...
lonelygirl15
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 rev...
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series
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 peo...
Chicken Noodle Soup
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 Billb...
Shoop da whoop
This was a meme started on the 4 chan website in which a user blacked out the face of a character (Cell) from Dragon ball z and replaced it with googly eyes and red lips done with microsoft paint. ...
A Series Of Tubes
Senator Stevens quite aptly describes teh internets as a "series of tubes."
Moped Dance
in 2006 someone posted a video on youtube and other similar websites, of several Estonian guys dancing around a moped to some eurobeat techno. It started a minor flurry of similar videos, including...
Chad Vader
Chad Vader is the younger brother of Darth Vader, who works as a day-shift manager at a supermarket named Empire Market. The story presents Chad's clash with customers and other employees while inc...
User tries to cancel AOL account
"Cancel the account. Cancel the account. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST CANCEL THE ACCOUNT." Finally, someone (Vincent Ferrari, who had heard numero...
Beatbox Flute
Greg Pattillo (b. 1977, Seattle, Washington ) is a beatboxing flautist originally from Seattle, but now operating in Brooklyn. Patillo is recognized throughout the world for his redefinition of the...
Stephen Colbert @ Whitehouse Dinner
American comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton Washington hotel...
The Bus Uncle
"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. While the older man (Roger Chan Yuet Tung), who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncl...
Hasselhoff 's Hooked on a Feeling
The song was covered in 1997 by David Hasselhoff. The music video of the Hasselhoff version became an Internet phenomenon due to its surreal visuals, extremely poor production quality and Hasselho...
Laughing Interview - In De Gloria
In De Gloria was a Flemish (Belgian) sketch show by Jan Eelen that ran on the Canvas television station in the period 2000-2001. A shortened version of the "Boemerang" sketch from the show gained ...
David Hasselhoff is Drunk
America's Got Talent Host David Hasselhoff drunk and eats a burger and on camera in this shocking video shot by his own daughter.
Onyxia Wipe
This is an animation I made back in April 2006 about an unsuccessful, but yet disturbingly hilarious, attempt to defeat the dragon Onyxia from World of Warcraft.
Leekspin Loituma Girl
In the series of anime related memes Loituma Girl (More often known as Leekspin) has gained a considerable amount of popularity even amoungst the non-otaku crowds. It features the Bleach character...
Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR
These two kids get overexcited and happy when they unwrap a Nintendo 64 on christmas day 1998. They really did like that present that much, that memorable christmas day was like a dream come true t...
The Show with Ze Frank
"the show with zefrank" was a short video program produced Monday through Friday for one year (March 17, 2006 - March 17, 2007). The show was a conversation between the Ze and the viewers of the ...
demotivators
Demotivators began as a satire of the motivational posters found in almost any office. Although an official site exits which has been selling professional quality demotivators since at least 2000,...
Lazy Sunday
Lazy Sunday is a music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg and airing on the December 17, 2005 episode of the show. It was the second SNL Digital Short to...
Lemon Demon
Lemon Demon is a band formed by Neil Cicierega, the same guy who made Potter Puppet Pals. They became a hit on the internet after they released the flash video for their song "The Ultimate Showdown...
The Maze Game
"The Maze Game", by Jeremy Winterrowd, is a game where users try to navigate a dot through 4 simple mazes with their mouse until the possessed face of Regan MacNeil, the principal character of The ...
Charlie the Unicorn
Charlie the Unicorn is a popular Internet flash-animated comedy short following the adventures of three unicorns as they walk to Candy Mountain. Charlie is the intransigent, disbelieving unicorn, a...
Million Dollar Homepage
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived by Alex Tew, a then 21-year-old student from Cricklade, Wiltshire, England to help raise money for his university education. Launched on August 26...
Leeroy Jenkins
This Internet phenomenon started with the release of a video clip online to the World of Warcraft forums. The video was released by the World of Warcraft Alliance player guild "Pals for Life" on th...
We're Not Afraid
Internet protest site set up in the wake of Londons 7/7 attacks. Went on to become global media meme, on and offline, broadcast and print
DO NOT WANT!
DO NOT WANT is another phrase coined by the lovable scoundrels at 4chan's /b/ board. It originated from horrible English subtitles of the Chinese version of Star Wars Episode III into Engrish, wher...
Back Dorm Boys
They're lip syncing, just like in Numa Numa, except these are Asian boys. They lip sync a lot of songs, mostly boy band ones, and in every video, they do a lot of funny faces to set up the mood. Th...
"Where the Hell is Matt?"
Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of la...
Pedobear
With vary rates of popularity, Pedobear is no doubt an internet meme in its prime. Go to 4chan and Pedobear is everywhere, go to Digg.com, and pedobear might be a little bit harder to find. True d...
MySpace: The Movie
The MySpace Movie explores the basics of life as well as disputed territories located within the MySpace site in a humorous and parodic fashion. Themes of this movie include: capturing profile im...
Cup Stacking
New fun sport: Cup Stacking! Amazingly fast sport: Stacking cups. Lots of videos around. Most famous vid: Emily Foxs world record from 2004.
Jeremias The Drunk
numa numa
The numa numa guy. Wow. Put Moldavian pop techno in the fantasies of an adolescant nerdling and let him at a webcam and you have this insanely popular video that spawned numerous copy cats. I actua...
Rocketboom
A daily vlog that's presented in the format of a newscast with a comedic slant. Each weekday Rocketboom offers oddities, vlog excerpts and explores emerging social movements. It sometimes presents ...
Ashlee Simpson SNL Disaster
Ashlee Simpson gets caught lip syncing on SNL, retorts with weird polka ho-down.
Salad Fingers
The little flash series by David Firth is about the psychotic and most disturbing cartoon character ever created. Actually nothing terrifying happens, but the ambience created by the music, the wei...
Pure Pwnage
Their website is www.purepwnage.com Pure Pwnage (pronounced "pure ownage", IPA: ['phjʊɹ oʊnɪdʒ]) is an Internet-distributed mockumentary series from ROFLMAO Productions. The fictional series pur...
Bubb Rubb
In 2003, KRON broadcasted a story about whistle tips, devices welded into a car's muffler to cause a loud whistle as the exhaust gas passes. Residents of Oakland were upset because of the disturban...
Tron Guy
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminescent Tron Guy costume, which I 1st wore at Penguicon 2.0 April 17th, 2004. He became a subjec...
Subservient Chicken
Burger King launched its landmark "viral" site. Lead agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky pulled in The Barbarian Group to produce the site.
Coca Cola - Chihuahua
Grape Crush = Fail
Clip of a news reporter crushing grapes and then taking a quite unfortunate fall....
Do a Barrel Roll!!!
A maneuver notably seen in the videogame "Star Fox 64" from 1997. It is shouted out to you randomly by your wingmate Peppy Hare to block incoming fire. This command can also be seen being posted on...
4chan
While it is not specifically a meme, 4chan is the creator of nearly all memes since its creation in 2003. Created by 15 year old Christopher Poole (aka "moot"), the site was intended to reflect Jap...
End of the World SWF
Hilarious shockwave animation about nuclear apocalypse. The source of the lines "But I am le tired", "WTF, mate?", "About that time, eh chaps?" and other lines. Even my mom has seen this thing. ...
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch..."
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The r...
Fensler's GI Joe PSA Redubs
Fensler Films is a Chicago based-company, headed by Eric Fensler, which gained a reputation for their parody G.I. Joe PSA films. Fensler Films took the PSA/Safety Messages used at the end of every ...
"French Erotic Film"
Part one of the epic "Colin Mochrie vs Jesus H. Christ" Fanimutation Trilogy.
The Super Bowl Is Gay
Andy Milonakis releases a video of himself singing about the Super Bowl being gay and everything else being gay as well. After this video, Andy was so popular that he got his own TV show on MTV and...
Snowdrop and Mittens
IM IN UR BASE KILLING UR DOODZ
[pic possibly fake or reconstructed] This meme originated on the SomethingAwful forums when a screenshot of a game of Starcraft was posted on the Games forum. Two players are in a game of Starcra...
Disemvowelment
Taking an offensive post and removing the vowels: a way to disempower offensive comments without actually engaging in censorship on an open forum. Created by Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light; ...
OrT & DeLa's Chop Suey Parody
OrT & DeLa were the first ones doing a parody version of a popular song, in this case one by System of a Down, "Chop Suey". The video quickly became viral. Some years later, lot of people would th...
REAL ULTIMATE POWER
Facts. 1. Ninjas are mammals. 2. Ninjas fight ALL the time. 3. The purpose of the Ninja is to flip out and kill people. So begins the strangely compelling site which spawned dozens, if not hundred...
Ding Fries Are Done
A dorky burger king employee sings about how he works at burger king. The Song is a parody of the traditional Christmas carol "Carol Of The Bells".
Kikia
"Kikia" was the first prank flash to be widely spread and thus provide inspiration for other similar creations. It is an example of a flash prank which requires no input from the viewer, but instea...
Tourist Guy
The tourist guy, also known as the accidental tourist (a joking reference to the novel and film The Accidental Tourist), Waldo (a reference to the Where's Waldo? franchise), WTC Guy, or tourist of ...
Domo-kun kills a Kitten
Domo-kun status as a meme started on the Fark forums, but the character is actually the mascot of the NHK television station in Japan. The members of Fark placed Domo-kun's likeness onto many ima...
8-Bit Theater
In 2001, Brian Clevinger launched a sprite comic and named it 8-Bit Theater. It's mostly just a web comic starring a bunch of characters stolen from the Final Fantasy series. It became extremely p...
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of...
Peter Pan "Pixie" Guy
Guy who dresses like Peter Pan shows up in everyone's email inboxes. Randy Constan is a Peter Pan impersonator who posted his cosplay pictures on a website in 2001, in what he stated was an atte...
You're the Man Now Dog!
YTMND, an initialism for "You're The Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs or sites) featuring a juxtaposition of ...
Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" is a Flash animation that emerged in the late 1990s and became an Internet phenomenon. Based on a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boyz, the best-known ver...
Man vs. Bear
To increase their UK market share, in November 2000 John West canned salmon started a marketing campaign revolving around a viral video in which what appears to be bear fights a fisherman for a fre...
Hot or Not
The site was founded in October 2000 by James Hong and Jim Young, two friends and Silicon Valley-based engineers (both graduated from UC Berkeley), as a technical solution to a disagreement they ma...
Goatse
The phenomenon of Goatse originated from a site called Goatse.cx (pron. "goat sex"). The main image proliferated on the web was of a man stretching his anus to unimaginable width to reveal his inne...
Super Greg & Rubberburner
One of the Web's first Viral campaigns emerges with characters from Lee Jeans. Story from WIRED: A couple of new, cheesy personal home pages have started making a buzz on the Net. Rubberburner.co...
Stinky Meat Project
Mahlon Smith decides to see what happens if you buy various meats and put them outside next to your neighbor's house and let time take care of things. From his site: "This is what happened in the ...
Wazzup Elian?
On April 22, 2000, the famous six-year-old "boat boy" Elian Gonzalez was forcibly seized from a house in Miami by Border Patrol agents intent on repatriating him to Cuba. An Associated Press photog...
Fat Chicks in Party Hats
FatChicksInPartyHats.com is a website created by a 17 year old, named Miguel. The site contains photos of overweight people, often wearing a party hat. Visitors of the site enjoy the (sometimes i...
Anything is Possible at Zombocom
From http://www.aboutus.org/Zombo.com Zombo.com is a humorous website created on October 10, 1999. The site consists solely of a single Flash animation of the website's title and seven circles of ...
JibJab
JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in September 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, the company achieved international acclaim during the 2004 US pre...
Tunak Tunak Tun
Tunak Tunak Tun is a song by Daler Mehndi. It was so popular on the internet because of its catchy tune and the amusing dance in its music video, inspiring numerous spin-offs and parodies. The musi...
Aliensong
Blit Wizbok, and alien boy created by Victor Navone sings part of "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. Then he is crushed by a falling mirror ball. What a disappointing debut. Blit Wizbok was born ea...
Mahir - I Kiss YOU!
Mahir Çağrı, a resident of İzmir, Turkey born in 1962, became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel...
Nigerian Money Offer Scams
Predates internet email by a century or so! [see http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5DC1638F932A15756C0A964958260 and http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp]. But it seems t...
Slashdot /.
In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. The...
Bert is Evil
Bert is Evil is the name of a widely mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American children's television program Sesame Street. In 1998 Dino ...
Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf, voted Most Beautiful Person
Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.) was a sidekick of Howard Stern who was -- in a glorious example of the power of democracy -- voted "People" Magazine's Most Beautiful Person...
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue
Chess champ Kasparov challenged IBM supercomputer Deep Blue to a series of chess matches. It was webcast live via a Java viewer and ranked as the world's record Net event of its time.
Dancing Baby
The Dancing Baby, also known as "Baby Cha-Cha", refers to a 3D character and 3D-rendered animation of a baby dancing for several seconds. The video, one of the earliest examples of an Internet phen...
Release of Battlecruiser 3000AD
Take Two Interactive and game developer Derek Smart release Battlecruiser 300AD. The game is described as a "bug-infested mess" by GameSpy. More interesting than the game itself was the epic Usen...
JenniCAM
JenniCAM was the website for Jennifer Ringley, the first real full time online webcam girl. Ringely left her webcam on 24 hours a day to fully document her life and quickly became an internet phen...
Phishing
from wikipedia: "A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, in a paper and presentation delivered to the International HP Users Group, Interex.[6] The first recorded mention of the term ...
Brandy's Babes
Self-described as "World's First Cyber Brothel", their net presence consisted of a server for the "finger" protocol used to transmit basic information including a list of email addresses of the "em...
Trojan Room coffee pot
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 Cambridg...
Kibo, the first Internet Diety
Though he had arrived on USENET before this date, his legendary habit of grepping all postings and responding to any and all mentions of his name with a supernatural rapidity had already earned hi...
Greenoch - Greatest Martial Art of All Time
Tired of people making ridiculous claims about the lethality of their chosen favorite martial art (which at the time seemed to be ninjutsu), a Usenet rec.martial-arts contributor named Doug Welch i...
Godwin's Law
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Godwin has stated that he introduced Godwin's Law in 1990 as an experiment in mem...
First Post by Mark V. Shaney (to net.singles)
Mark V. Shaney was the name used by a computer program that generated pseudo-intelligent messages by taking real messages as input, building a Markov chain representation of the input, and using th...
First Emoticon Created :-)
Emoticons, now many times seen as graphic, even animated, images in internet forums, pages and emails, started off as simple text used to easily indicate that some specific text was sarcasm or 'jus...
Cyberspace
William Gibson uses the term, so far as I am aware, before anyone else, in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome. The arguably predates him, to at least John Brunner's 1975 Shockwave Rider, if not ea...
"Internet"
from wikipedia: "The term originated as a determiner, a shorthand for internetworking, and is mostly used in this way in RFCs, the documentation for the evolving Internet Protocol (IP) standards fo...
