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2014-ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge was a 2014 internet trend involving the dumping of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and encourage donations to research. -
2015-A Year in Space
In 2015, NASA Gave twitter users a first-hand look of what an entire year in space looks like as astronaut Scott Kelly does missions and spends a calendar year onboard the ISS. -
2016-Fake, Fake News
2016 was the year of the presidential elections. Unfortunately, it was also the year of the rise of #FakeNews, where it seemed that you couldn't trust a single news outlet to give you actual, unbiased news. -
2018-Tide Pods Challenge
While I wouldn't consider this of the most 'important' things to happen in internet history per se, but it's crucial to understand the ability of the internet to influence young people. There was a challenge on the internet that convinced people to eat Tide Pods which 'looked delicious.' Serious illness was the result of many people all over the world. What a time to be alive.
