BoardGameGeek | Gaming Unplugged Since 2000
Board Game Geek
BoardGameGeek provides an extensive database of physical board game information. The site also includes user ratings and discussion forums. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
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Boardgamegeek (Firm)
Date:2002
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Urban Dictionary: Define Your World
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases that was founded in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com and Vocabulary.com by then-college freshman Aaron Peckham. Some of the…
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Peckham, Aaron
Date:2005
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Aspen Institute
Welcome to the Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. The organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and…
Date:2001
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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme (KYM) is a website and video series which uses wiki software to document various Internet memes and other online phenomena, such as viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, internet celebrities…
Date:2010
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Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common topics and themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney and left-wing…
Date:2002
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YTMND: You're the man now dog!
ytmnd, an acronym for "You're the Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted memetic web pages (known within the community as fads, YTMNDs or sites) featuring…
Date:2006
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Something Awful: The Internet Makes You Stupid
Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a variety of content, including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. It was created by…
Date:2002
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Equestria Daily
Equestria Daily is the major fan site for "bronies", fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, animated television series produced by Hasbro as part of the My Little Pony toy franchise.…
Date:2014
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Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY
Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, which other users can comment on and rate for quality. It was created by Eric Wilhelm and Saul Griffith and launched…
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Griffith, Saul - Wilhelm, Eric J.
Date:2008
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Drew Curtis' FARK.com
Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. The site receives many story…
Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy
Giphy, founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013, is an online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files. This site contains…
Date:2013
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Newgrounds.com - The Problems Of The Future, Today!
Newgrounds is an American entertainment and social media website and company. Originating as a zine in 1991 and existing as a BBS (bulletin board site) in the mid 1990s, Newgrounds launched as…
Date:2001
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as "/.") is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science and technology that are submitted…
Date:2001
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T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
textfiles.com is a web site run by Jason Scott dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the BBS world (bulletin board sites) and various subcultures. The site categorizes…
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Scott, Jason
Date:2002
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Metafilter | Community Weblog
MetaFilter is a general-interest community weblog, founded in 1999 and based in the United States, where a wide range of users submit and share links and commentary about the links they find.…
Date:2001
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A Cosplay Paradise - Entrance Page
American Cosplay Paradise, started in 2000, is a major site for sharing costumes and discussing cosplay (a contraction of the words "costume play"). Cosplay is a performance art in which participants wear…
Main Page - LOLCat Bible Translation Project
The LOLCat Bible Translation Project is a wiki-based website set up in July 2007 by Martin Grondin, where editors aim to translate the entire Bible into "LOLspeak", the slang popularized by the…
Date:2008
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Emojipedia - Emoji Meanings
Emoji are a kind of emoticon used to add picture based characters to text based computer mediated communication. This site decodes the meanings and definitions of these characters, providing insight on the…
Date:2014
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Facebook Symbols (cool text character codes)
Facebook Symbols collects, describes and provides various text and image based characters for use in communication on Facebook. In this regard, it is valuable as a tool for documenting evolving use of…
Date:2012
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Facebook Symbols and Chat Emoticons
The site serves as an online collection of emoticons and characters for use in text based communication on Facebook. It also includes a collection of emoji art, images created out of patterns…
Date:2014
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Elfwood - Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, FanArt & Stories
Elfwood is a popular web-based alternative art gallery and online community devoted to original science fiction and fantasy art and writing. It was started 1 May 1996 by Thomas Abrahamsson and claims…
Date:2006
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Fanlore
The Fanlore wiki is a collaborative site which documents the range of different fan communities and fan produced works created in those communities. In this respect, the site provides valuable documentation of…
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Organization for Transformative Works
B3TA : WE LOVE THE WEB
B3ta is a popular British website focused on sharing digital art. B3ta's main feature is a newsletter featuring the latest work of the B3ta community and other interesting, humorous or perverse things…
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Henderson, Cal - Manuel, Rob
Date:2002
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Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato. This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was purportedly able to live both on land and in water,…
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Zapato, Lyle
Date:2014
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Neatorama
Neatorama, founded by Alex Santoso in 2005, is a blog which covers a variety of topics including technology, science, art and the "neatest, weirdest, and most wonderful stuff from all over the…
Date:2006
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Cute Overload! ;)
Cute Overload was a widely read blog created by Megan Frost featuring commentary, photos and videos related to various aspects of cuteness in animals. The site's hosts would take submissions and publish…