Internet Event of the Year: 2010

Lord Jezo

Hello forum members.

It has once again become the final week of the year and that means it's time to discuss the internet gossip of the past twelve months. Here we figure out what the internet will be remembered for, the event that changed the course of the tubes and will go down in history for what the year means to us folks who are on it all day.

For 2010 my vote this year is for the past batch of Wikileaks, that internet event has shook up the world so much that new laws will be passed and some folks wants others executed. It was a US centric event but global in it's reach.

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Remember back into time, here is the post from 2009..

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=108821

2008:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78655

2007:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44279

galenblade

Yeah, for my money it's got to be Wikileaks.

Aside from the diplomatic cables released, they also released the Iraq/Afghanistan war logs earlier in the year.


The only other thing would be the Google/Verizon Net Neutrality debacle, which the FCC has been continuing.

quovadis13

Yeah, Wikileaks is probably good for the most notable internet event, but the most fun internet event over the last year was probably due to the Auto Tune the News people and more specifically, the Bed Intruder song.

Arrath

Well, to quote from last year's thread:

Yeah I'm gonna go with the death of Duke Nukem Forever. We all knew it was coming but now it's "official".

DNF is still real!

Dusda

Haha, quoting Mumblyfish from 2007 about Stage6, Divx's attempt to make their codec a web platform. I'd completely forgotten it existed. It eventually closed due to costs, and was eclipsed by YouTube when they unveiled HD streaming.

From the far away time of 2007, a time ruled by Chocolate Rain, 2 Girls 1 Cup, and other pointless memes... wrote:

Mumblyfish wrote: »

Dodge Aspen wrote: »

If youtube won last year, I bet Facebook will be this year's winner. Say what you want about it, but everyone is on that shit.

Could we not have a rule to exclude such nominations, on the grounds that everyone who uses social networking sites is a failure? It seems unfair to deny Stage6 and Let's Play their chance to shine as new Internet developments that are actually good; the former for providing free streaming video that's appropriate to today's average Internet connection, as opposed to appropriate for the sixteenth fucking century, the latter for popularising watching others play video games as opposed to playing them oneself, which is no small feat.

TyrantCow

i don't even play starcraft or whatever

but...

day9

SniperGuy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM

Baron Dirigible

Beatles on iTunes.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Wikileaks

Dusda

My own vote is for Wikileaks, but I would also consider Facebook again.

Lord Jezo

So.. Wikileaks for 2010?

Lindsay Lohan

While I think Wikileaks is probably the biggest technology related news story I actually think the thing that has shaped our online and gaming world the most would be the huge success of casual facebook based gaming. The huge sums of money and number of players of stuff like Farmville and Cityville have brought tons of new gamers into the fold and practically overnight created a gaming company rivaling the size of EA.

It's been a gateway drug too - I got my niece Harvest Moon for the DS based on her Farmville love and I know people that went out and bought SimCity for the DS to have Cityville type of fun on the road. I can only assume at E3 this year we'll see a lot of "it's like Farmville but..." type of games being pushed.

The only other thing I can think of might be the success of the Android platform which really came to fruition this year.

I think in terms of my daily activities both of these will have a bigger impact than Wikileaks.

Allforce

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

Beatles on iTunes.

Really nothing else rivals this in impact and scope

Lord Jezo

Allforce wrote: »

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

Beatles on iTunes.

Really nothing else rivals this in impact and scope

I wonder how much the billboards they have up over the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel cost.

Also a whole bunch of them in prime NYC locations.

toolbert

Lindsey Lohan wrote: »

While I think Wikileaks is probably the biggest technology related news story I actually think the thing that has shaped our online and gaming world the most would be the huge success of casual facebook based gaming. The huge sums of money and number of players of stuff like Farmville and Cityville have brought tons of new gamers into the fold and practically overnight created a gaming company rivaling the size of EA.

It's been a gateway drug too - I got my niece Harvest Moon for the DS based on her Farmville love and I know people that went out and bought SimCity for the DS to have Cityville type of fun on the road. I can only assume at E3 this year we'll see a lot of "it's like Farmville but..." type of games being pushed.

The only other thing I can think of might be the success of the Android platform which really came to fruition this year.

I think in terms of my daily activities both of these will have a bigger impact than Wikileaks.

I whole heartedly support this. The "casual" gamer has really come out and made a big impact on the gaming scene. These little games where you just pop in from time to time have really taken a big piece of the market that no one really expected it to. Even iphone games, like angry birds, are becoming the target market for some bigger companies now.

maximumzero

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife for best meme of the year.

mrt144

Allforce wrote: »

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

Beatles on iTunes.

Really nothing else rivals this in impact and scope

Is this a sarcastic reference to the Beatles being bigger than Jesus?

SniperGuy

Allforce wrote: »

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

Beatles on iTunes.

Really nothing else rivals this in impact and scope

You guys are kidding right? Because that was so minor on the scale of things that everyone groaned when they announced it.

maximumzero

I don't think I've ever heard a Beatles song in its entirety.

remlap13

I'm gonna say Wikileaks as well. That shit is changing the world as we speak.

mrt144

I gotta say, the last minute of Brodyquest is fucking great.

Psycho Internet Hawk

maximumzero wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard a Beatles song in its entirety.

maybe you should go outside

maximumzero

Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard a Beatles song in its entirety.

maybe you should go outside

I've seen the black & white clips of them getting off the plane and the screaming girls and the bits of what I believe is the Ed Sullivan show...

And of course I've heard Imagine, but that's not exactly The Beatles.

Allforce

Pretty much the most important musical act in history's entire catalog being released on the most important innovation to music in history.

I'd say it's a bigger deal than some rapist getting some boring gov't documents and putting them on his blog.

mrt144

Allforce wrote: »

Pretty much the most important musical act in history's entire catalog being released on the most important innovation to music in history.

I'd say it's a bigger deal than some rapist getting some boring gov't documents and putting them on his blog.

!Voteban

Either you're a master troll, a master beatles fanboy or you're a myopic teenager that just discovered oldies.

40 years from now you think people are going to look at the events of 2010 and think...oh hey they released the beatles on iTunes? There are no words for how myopic this is.

Quetzatcoatl

The Beatles were already widely available before I-Tunes, even on the internet on stuff like Pandora. Like re-re-releasing Zelda, it happens every six months.

It's pretty cool that it's the first time all the catalog is available digitally, but their musical influence happened 40 years ago.

Edit: and to actually contribute something, I'll point out the World Cup. It was a global event where streaming video, news and social sites were all involved.

mrt144

Quetzatcoatl wrote: »

The Beatles were already widely available before I-Tunes, even on the internet on stuff like Pandora. Like re-re-releasing Zelda, it happens every six months.

It's pretty cool that it's the first time all the catalog is available digitally, but their musical influence happened 40 years ago.

Edit: and to actually contribute something, I'll point out the World Cup. It was a global event where streaming video, news and social sites were all involved.

I'd say the vuvuzela and the glaring lack of technology replay were bigger parts of what we'll remember about the world cup. As americans that is.

Henroid

Wikileaks wins by default, because it has real life, world-wide affects.

maximumzero

Yeah the vuvuzelas and the animated gifs that came from 'em are what the World Cup is all about. Soccer? What's that? :P

mrt144

maximumzero wrote: »

Yeah the vuvuzelas and the animated gifs that came from 'em are what the World Cup is all about. Soccer? What's that? :P

I call it foot melon

Corehealer

Wikileaks for politics and the internet, casual gaming for games and technology in relation to the internet, and Beatles on iTunes for music (bout time), are my votes for 2010.

SniperGuy

Beatles has 0 lasting effect. Being on iTunes that is. The Beatles are awesome? Internet event? Not even remotely.

The ENTIRETY of Brodyquest is awesome though.

Shorn Scrotum Man

Allforce wrote: »

Pretty much the most important musical act in history's entire catalog being released on the most important innovation to music in history.

I'd say it's a bigger deal than some rapist getting some boring gov't documents and putting them on his blog.

Beatles and iTunes are old news. Not sure how combining them makes for top internet story of the year.

Wikileaks gets my serious vote, vuvuzelas get my silly vote. I went to South Africa a few months after the World Cup and brought home 4 of them as gifts to people, everyone was pumped to get them!

Lord Jezo

Shorn Scrotum Man wrote: »

Wikileaks gets my serious vote, vuvuzelas get my silly vote. I went to South Africa a few months after the World Cup and brought home 4 of them as gifts to people, everyone was pumped to get them!

I still have one in the back seat of my car.

Also don't forget all the virtual vuvu apps everyone had this past summer. Many a morning the wife woke me up with it playing in my sleeping face.

RoyceSraphim

Much as I do not care about wikileaks, I have to say its one of the biggest things of the year because,

1. People won't shut up about it
2. People have made death threat against the people who did it
3. People have made death threats against people against it
4. The "band" has already broken up and formed spin off groups
5. Someone may go to jail for it.
6. and finally the front man comes off as such an annoying, anti-social, grimy hater of all things powerful, that you will see people's views about wikileaks change the moment he pops on camera

Over all, it is still in the realm of crazy hype (like the tea party, tickle me elmo, myspace, or any of the other crap we waste time on) but this is hype on a global scale. I'm not going to qualify this with someone dying, this already takes the cake for the year.


Which sucks, because I would have thought Obama sticking to his word and ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell and start would have been the biggest things of the year.

PantsB

TyrantCow wrote: »

i don't even play starcraft or whatever

but...

day9