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1. Flashback to December of 2005. Facebook had only 6 million users. The first ever tweet had not yet been sent. This was the first "viral" video that ever came across my radar.
2. There is a chance that I had seen this viral video first, perhaps in the summer of 2005. These were the days when one or two viral videos a year seemed like a big deal.
3. The closest referent I had for making sense of these clips (sent via-email) was America's Funniest Home Videos. But these were not accidents, these were intentional. Someone recorded themselves in their homes and then millions of people saw it. Mind. Blown.
4. This was 2 years before the first iphone. Before the concept of the selfie. And it was only 14 years ago. I remember thinking how cool all of this new communication technology was that it could do magical things like deliver those hilarious videos to me for free.
5. And now we've got Alex Jones videos about lizard people and Democrats possessed by Satan with over 3 million views so...that was the not so cool part.
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