Viral Hall of Fame

Archiving internet lore before AI blurs the origins. If it changed internet culture, it belongs in here.

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On 9/11, the FAA ordered a total nationwide ground stop for the first time ever.

Air traffic controllers safely brought down ~4,500 commercial planes across the US in under 3 hours with zero incidents, leaving North America’s skies completely empty.

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The internet’s biggest viral visual right now isn’t an AI original.

If you’ve seen this synchronized crowd walk on your feed, it’s originally a frame-for-frame sequence from GENER8ION & Yung Lean’s “STORM II”.

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Starship just reached orbit for the first time.

To put SpaceX’s engineering into perspective, here is a person standing next to the landing legs of a Falcon 9 first-stage booster.

Starship is more than double its height and nearly 2.5 times wider.

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Widely regarded as the "iPhone moment" of artificial intelligence.

​On November 30, 2022, Sam Altman officially introduced ChatGPT to the public, marking the start of a new era in internet culture & tech.

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today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN