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Nerd culture
- Otaku USAOtaku USA is a biannual magazine that has done something almost no other publication in its field has managed: survive. When the magazine launched in August…
- IGNIGN launched on the 29th of September 1996, born as a network of five separate websites covering gaming platforms that barely existed yet.
- The Big Bang TheoryThe Big Bang Theory debuted on CBS on the 24th of September 2007, the same night a different kind of television experiment began.
- HidiveThe year 2017 marked a turning point for anime streaming when Hidive launched in June. This new service emerged from the ashes of Anime Network Online, which…
- MyspaceMyspace launched on the 1st of August, 2003, and within a few years became the most visited website in the United States, beating out Yahoo Mail and Google…
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984 in White Plains, New York, and by his mid-twenties he had built the largest social network in human…
- Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons was born partly from a two-year-old girl's enthusiasm. When Gary Gygax presented his daughter Cindy with a list of possible names for the…
- Bill GatesBill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, and by age 31 he had become the world's youngest-ever billionaire.
- Role-playing gameRole-playing games ask a deceptively simple question: what if you could be someone else entirely, and what if the choices you made actually mattered to the…
- Japanese popular cultureJapanese popular culture spans cinema, cuisine, television, anime, manga, video games, and music, yet nearly every strand carries traces of older artistic…
- OtakuOtaku is the word Japan gave to a generation of fans who loved anime, manga, and video games so intensely they built an entire parallel society around those…
- CosplayCosplay is the activity of wearing costumes and accessories to embody a specific character, and in 1939, two science fiction fans in New York City started…
- Fandom (website)Fandom launched on the 18th of October 2004, at exactly 23:50:49 UTC, a timestamp precise enough to feel deliberate. It was born in the final minutes of a…
- Magic: The GatheringMagic: The Gathering was born in the summer of 1993, when a doctoral candidate in combinatorial mathematics walked out of a hiking trail near Multnomah Falls…
- Cultural impact of Star WarsIn 1977, a film titled Star Wars opened in theaters and changed how people spoke. Phrases like May the Force be with you entered everyday conversation across…
- Anime clubAnime clubs bring together people across generations to watch, discuss, and celebrate Japanese animation in community spaces.