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"Badger Badger Badger" was a flash animation in 2003 featuring an army of badgers dancing to a repetitive electronic song interspersed with occasional mentions of "mushroom."

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Anonymous started in 2003 on 4chan's /b/ board as a group that would occasionally pull mass pranks on other online communities. The group is now known for "hacktivism."

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One of the first web memes was a piece of Usenet-era wisdom from Mike Godwin, who observed in 1990 that "as an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

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Hamster Dance, a very adorable (and equally obnoxious) homage to dancing hamsters, went live in 1998 and quickly spread like a wildfire through newsgroups and e-mail chains.

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Some say the Web was made for cat photos. It isn't true, but LOLcats sure are prevalent.


