Computing History & Culture
Internet culture & memes
Internet culture & memes sits within Computing History & Culture. Treat computing as a history of people and institutions as well as machines and software. This selection contains 170 catalog videos from 149 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.
Recurring catalog topics include meme, youtube, video essay, social media, viral video and content id. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, music, news, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.
“Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)”, listed under XOXO Festival, is cataloged as talk. Darius Kazemi's XOXO 2014 talk on releasing 72 weird internet side projects in a year. Framed as 'How I Won the Lottery,' it argues that success needs both luck and buying many…
“Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at…”, listed under Josh Wardle, is cataloged as talk. Josh Wardle, later the creator of Wordle, talks at SF Tech Poetics about why April Fools' Day in Silicon Valley is often lame. He shares lessons from building The Button and Place…
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