November 27, 2007
The Webby Awards' 12 Most Influential Online Videos of All Time
2006 will surely go down as the year when Internet video broke to the worldwide masses, but even before this historical benchmark, online video was an important part of many users' Internet experiences.
To celebrate its 12th year, The Webby Awards has put together a list of some of the most important, influential and beloved online videos of all-time.
It wasn't easy to narrow down over a decade of online video to just twelve, but each of the videos listed below represents an important starting point for the tactics and trends currently flourishing online:
Jennicam (1996)
All Your Base Are Belong to Us (2000)
BMW Films: "The Hire" (2001)
The Star Wars Kid (2002)
JibJab - "This Land" (2004)
Burger King's Subservient Chicken (2004)
Lazy Sunday (Narnia Rap) (2005)
Israel-Hezbollah War (2006)
LonelyGirl15 (2006)
OK Go - "Here We Go Again" (2006)
Senator George Allen's "Macaca" Incident (2006)
Zidane Headbutt (2006)
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