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2020s fads and trends

  • TikTokByteDance launched Douyin on the 20th of September 2016, a mobile app designed to host user-submitted videos ranging from three seconds to 60 minutes.
  • 4chanOn the 1st of October 2003, a fifteen-year-old student named Christopher Poole launched an English-language imageboard from his New York City bedroom.
  • Non-fungible tokenIn May 2014, Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash stood before an audience at the New Museum in New York City. They presented a video clip created by McCoy's wife…
  • Generative artificial intelligenceIn 1906, Russian mathematician Andrey Markov introduced a concept that would eventually birth generative artificial intelligence.
  • Doge (meme)A 2010 photograph of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu became the visual foundation for an internet phenomenon. Atsuko Sato, Kabosu's owner, posted this image on her…