Presenting: The Most Influential Online Videos Of All Time

Author: Rees | Date: November 27, 2007

Apparently, 2007 was very much the year of online video. But a lot of people don’t realise that some crazy fools were posting videos on the internet before the days of Web 2.0, Jack Thompson, and Myface, and even before Teabagger Evoroth was actually born.

So this year the Webby Awards honours the 12 most influential online videos of all time. There are some firm favourites in there, and some I’ve never even heard of (kids these days…), but I can guarantee that at least some of them are ~~kind of good~~ ~~not too shit~~ possibly influential.

As it happens, though, you don’t actually need to visit the site at all, because I embedded by far the best one right here. And you thought AYBABTU was dead.

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Comment by Bubba

2007-11-28 11:59:08

What a rubbish list… its missing at 2 of my favorite pre-YouTube Classics I spent a good few hours downloading these beasties with my 56k connection:

Park Wars – http://www.parkwars.com
South Park meets Star Wars… until George Lucas threatens to freeze their balls in carbonite.

Tripping the Rift – http://www.trippingtherift.tv/
Anything with a character named Choade gets my vote. This actually got made into a series but i don’t think it was as good as the original short clip.

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Comment by SmellyGeekBoy

2007-11-28 12:05:48

Nah, the Tripping The Rift series was terrible – I think it was on Sky One at some point. Choade was the only good thing about it!

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Comment by OwningXylophone

2007-11-28 12:32:31

Heathen! ‘Tripping the Rift’ was excellent… Far better than ‘Father of the Pride’, ‘American Dad’ or ‘King of the Hill’, so best of the rest behind the obvious Family Guy, South Park, etc.

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