Curated category
2000s fads and trends
- Mobile phoneOn the 3rd of April 1973, Martin Cooper of Motorola stood on a street in New York City holding a handset that weighed about 2 kilograms, roughly 4.4 pounds.
- Nu metalNu metal arrived on the 18th of August 1998, when three albums dropped on the same day: Korn's Follow the Leader, Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause, and…
- Rock BandRock Band arrived in 2007 with a proposition that had never quite been attempted at scale: four people in a living room, each holding a different plastic…
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap began its life under a different name: reality rap. That original label tells you something honest about what the genre's founders believed they…
- EmoEmo is a genre of rock music that began as a small, passionate subculture in Washington, D.C., and grew into one of the defining sounds of the early…
- PokémonPokémon began as the private obsession of a boy in Machida, a suburb of Tokyo, who spent his childhood catching insects in the ponds and fields around his…
- Indie rockIndie rock began its life as a legal description, not a sound. On the 15th of January 1983, a Billboard magazine writer named Roman Kozak published an…
- Tea Party movementThe Tea Party movement announced itself to the country on the 19th of February 2009, when a CNBC business news editor named Rick Santelli stepped onto the…
- CrunkThe word crunk first appeared in print within a 1972 Dr. Seuss book titled Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!. The author used the phrase Crunk-Car…
- Scene (subculture)Scene subculture arrived in the United States in the early 2000s, born from the emo scene that had come before it, and within a few years it had taken over…