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Nerd culture
- IGNOn the 29th of September 1996, a new website called IGN launched under the name Imagine Games Network. Media entrepreneur Chris Anderson created this…
- The Big Bang TheoryIn the opening scene of the pilot episode, a young woman named Penny moves into an apartment directly across from two physicists sharing a unit in Pasadena.
- 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…
- MyspaceOn the 1st of August 2003, a group of employees from eUniverse launched MySpace in just ten days. Brad Greenspan oversaw the project while Chris DeWolfe…
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up in a Reform Jewish household with three sisters named Arielle…
- Dungeons & DragonsIn 1974, a small box set of three booklets appeared on the shelves of hobby shops with a very limited production budget of only $2000.
- Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
- Japanese popular cultureIn 1946, Japanese toy makers began crafting small cars from empty tin cans after the Allied occupation banned the use of metal for commercial toys.
- OtakuThe word otaku began as a polite Japanese pronoun meaning "you" or "your house." Science fiction fans in the late 1960s used it to ask if someone owned…
- CosplayIn June 1983, Nobuyuki Takahashi wrote an article for the Japanese magazine Comic Com. He introduced a new word to describe the activity of wearing costumes…
- Fandom (website)On the 18th of October 2004, at 23:50:49 UTC, a website named Wikicities launched under the leadership of Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling.
- Magic: The GatheringRichard Garfield sat in a small office at Whitman College during the early months of 1991, sketching out rules for a game that would eventually become Magic…
- 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…