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The 50 Greatest Moments in Internet History

Esquire

March 31, 2021 at 4:37 PM

The 50 Greatest Moments in Internet History

1) ARPANET Turns On (1966)

2) The OG Meme Lord (1976)

3) The Birth of Spam (1978)

4) Hello, Top Level Domains (1986)

5) Photoshop Enters the Fold (1990)

6) The Web Goes World Wide (1991)

7) Mosaic Changes the Game (1993)

8) The World's First Livestream (1993)

9) Woo, Yahoo! (1994)

10) The First Online Webcam (1994)

11) The World Gets a Popular Navigator (1994)

12) Amazon Meets the World (1995)

13) Transactions Change with AuctionWeb (1995)

14) The Internet Finds Love (1995)

15) Craig Makes His List (1995)

16) You've Got HotMail (1996)

17) The World Becomes Wireless (1997)

18) Music Gets Free (1999)

19) Online Shopping Is Made Easier (1997)

20) The Advent of Ad Blocking (1999)

21) DDoS Attack (2000)

22) Wikipedia Gives Us the Power (2001)

23) The Record Store Dies a Slow Death (2003)

24) Facebook Shows Its Face (2004)

25) The Rise of Gmail (2004)

26) A New Way to Video (2005)

27) The First YouTube Makeup Tutorial (2006)

28) Netflix Begins Streaming (2007)

29) Salad Fingers. (2007)

30) SHOES (2007)

31) Apple Introduces the iPhone (2007)

32) Kanye vs. Taylor (2009)

33) We Meet Some Humans from New York (2010)

34) Instagram Is Born (2010)

35) The First Royal Wedding (2011)

36) Osama bin Laden's Assassination (2011)

37) The Red Wedding (2013)

38) A Fish Plays Pokémon Red (2014)

39) The Dress (2015)

40) Llama Llama Highway Drama (2015)

41) We Rate Dogs Joins Twitter (2015)

42) Beyoncé Releases Lemonade (2016)

43) The Launch of Pokémon Go (2016)

44) Dear David Captivates the Masses (2017)

45) The Second Royal Wedding (2018)

46) The Yanny vs. Laurel Debate (2018)

47) The Internet and Marvel Step Up (2019)

48) Llamas on the Loose Pt. 2 (2019)

49) The Internet Rallies for Spicy Nuggets (2019)

50) Twitter Ends Political Advertising (2019)

What a long, strange trip it's been.

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