
The Facebook! Such a normal (and possibly infuriating) part of our lives now, but this wasn’t always the case, not back in the mid-90s it wasn’t. Back then it was about as alien as, well, an alien, which is why The Facebook used to have TV commercials to spread its word to the masses.
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Three corner boys are hanging out, but something’s not right—and that something seems to be their topics of conversation. As Kenan Thompson, Kevin Hart, and Jay Pharoah’s characters discuss their lives, you realise they’re talking like a bunch of middle-class hipsters. Artisan mayonnaise? Paint parties?
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You’ve Got Mail was a 1990s movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan that was pretty much just a remake of Sleepless in Seattle, but with email. It wasn’t really known for being sexy, raunchy or in any way interesting or entertaining, but all that changes when you look at this hot-under-the-collar “deleted scene” of Hanks and Ryan exchanging cyber sex talk.
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Candide Thovex is one of the world’s best skiers and a master when it comes to freestyling down the slopes—in this incredible video shot with a GoPro we get a first person’s perspective of Thovex taking to the snow in the resort of Val Blanc in his native France, as he performs stunts and somersault through the air.
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Dillon Markey is an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, and so spends a lot of his time preparing and recording stop motion footage. He’s also a longtime fan of the failed Nintendo Power Glove. And so he decided to resurrect this 1980s relic and, with the help of an engineer, turn it into a tool to help him create his animations.
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With the instant success of ‘Taken 3′ after it was recently released in cinemas, they’ve already made another one to cash in on the hype—well, Jimmy Kimmel’s released a parody trailer anyway. But it’s still pretty good, if not quite the length of a full feature film.
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Looking at the woman in the beginning of this video, you’d never guess what she’s about to reveal a few seconds in—Cheri suffers from a skin condition known as vitiligo, but you wouldn’t know it until she begins to wipe away her make up and exposes an uneven skin tone underneath. For her to do this on video is extremely brave.
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Ah the end of the 90s! Things were simpler back then, the internet was nothing but fields and you could buy a bottle of beer for a thruppence halfpenny and still have change to feed your tamagotchi. Oh the memories! But don’t trouble yourself straining your brain to actually try and remember 1998, that’s why we have the internet.
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When you look at The Avengers lineup, you do have to question why the heck they have Black Widow and Hawkeye as part of the team. The others possess superhuman powers that can take down gods, but those two are just puny humans. Well it turns out they are, in fact, critical components of the team, but for reasons that aren’t entirely to do with their superhero powers.
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Glitch music and suitably twitchy, glitchy visuals to accompany the sounds are the order of the day in this video. This is SyncBody, a music visualization tool which responds to music in the form of a human body, a female human body, that looks like some kind of post-human cyborgian cross-breed — a freak of the highest order, but so much better than a standard media player’s visuals.
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Bill may be long gone, but it shows you how much society hasn’t evolved when it comes to recreational drugs that this sketch from his live show Revelations still rings as true today as it did back then. In fact the day we do hear a positive drugs story on the news, is the day you better check the North Koreans haven’t put LSD in the water supply because you most definitely will be hallucinating.
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