Ancient Apps and Websites
Before TikTok, this app made six-second looping videos its signature format.
What is Vine?
This 2014 fundraising challenge involved dumping ice water over your head to raise awareness of ALS.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
When someone asks to meet “IRL,” they mean this.
What is “In Real Life"?
This phone feature shares your cellular internet connection with a laptop or other nearby devices.
What is a mobile hotspot?
This social game filled Facebook feeds with requests to help friends grow crops and care for virtual livestock.
What is Farmville?
This meme features a Shiba Inu surrounded by colorful phrases such as “such wow” and “very amaze.”
What is Doge?
Someone sharing an honest opinion might begin with “NGL,” short for this phrase.
What is “not gonna lie”?
This Microsoft web browser launched in 1995 was recognizable by a blue lowercase “e” with an orbital ring.
What is internet explorer?
This social network’s “Top 8” could turn ranking your friends into a public controversy.
What is MySpace?
Videos in this 2013 dance craze typically begin with one person dancing before a sudden cut reveals an entire group dancing wildly, often in costumes.
What is the Harlem Shake?
A post about an inside joke might end with “IYKYK,” meaning this.
What is “if you know, you know”?
This type of internet connection used a telephone line and greeted you with a chorus of screeches and static.
What is dial-up internet? (AOL)
In this addictive mobile game, players tapped the screen to guide a small bird between green pipes.
Flappy Bird
In this viral challenge, groups stood completely frozen in place while a camera moved around them.
What is the Mannequin Challenge?
The text abbreviation “ICYMI” introduces something you may not have seenyet
What is “in case you missed it”?
Operated by the Internet Archive, this online time machine lets you explore saved versions of websites to see how they looked years ago.
What is the The Wayback Machine?
This music-sharing service, launched in 1999, became famous for letting users exchange MP3 files and for its legal battles with the music industry.
What is Napster?
Getting “Rickrolled” means a link unexpectedly takes you to this singer’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. The song came up in this year.
(Whoever can get the closes to the release year gets an extra 200 points.)
Who is Rick Astley - 1987
Before touchscreen keyboards, this predictive texting system let you press each number key once per letter on a phone’s nine-key keypad, guessing the word you intended.
What is T9 texting?
Long before cloud storage, this square storage medium held files and later lived on as the Save icon.
What is a floppy disk?