Internet Memes timeline: relive all great web moments

Written on August 6, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference

The commercial web is about as 5000 days old. Despite its relatively short existence it changed our life, the way we communicate and how we do business. And there’s a lot more to come.

Every once and a while something special occurs on the web and spreads like fire over the web. Dipity is a service that lets you make a timeline of anything. One of their users (BG K) created a timeline with all internet memes.

Great stuff. Do you remember ‘dancing baby‘ in October 1996? Or Rick Rolled (easy one) in 2007?

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About the author: Patrick de Laive is co-founder of Fleck and initiator of The Next Web Conference, Bowlr and OpenCoffee Amsterdam. Check his LinkedIn profile for more information.

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