Fast internet that could handle moving image crawled into our lives with cheap broadband deals, and now we’re hooked! The amount of viral films and images is greater that we can handle, but there are some gems that do deserve remembrance and immortalisation. To celebrate the ten years of its cable broadband, Virgin Media has set up “10 Things Project” that will gather all the favourite videos, virals, music, gossip and games that have been part of our decade long broadband experience.
The ‘10 Things Project’ is a social platform that allows visitors to pick and choose their favourite ten things from the web. Whether it’s watching Chris Crocker pleading to ‘Leave Britney Alone!’, the immortal Star Wars Kid, LOLcats, or even the classic Dancing Baby, ’10 Things Project’ is a platform to share thoughts, or just browse through other’s favourite picks and reminisce.
Web fans are offered ten categories through which they can build their own time-capsule of the funnies and weirdest web moments of their past. The site pulls automatically popular content to help the memory. All the lost, treasured and forgotten moments will be captured and saved for everyone to enjoy.
Jon James, executive director of Broadband at Virgin Media had said, “It’s only when you look back you realise how important broadband has been over the last ten years and how we’d feel utterly lost without it. With speeds increasing and our launch of 100Mb by the end of 2010, we’re proud to have been at the forefront of this incredible phenomenon and look forward to exciting new services the next ten years will bring.”
The home page of the Project displays an overview of all visitors’ choices. It forms a collective digital picture of the best of the last decade, and a great place to see what makes us tick, or just to go and have a laugh muttering ‘Oh, I remember that!’
To join the fun, visit www.10thingsproject.com and mark your favourite bits of history.
