The best viral videos, from Flash to YouTube, of all time - Polygon

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Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming , looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. The genre of “Dumb Internet Video” has evolved considerably since connection speeds became fast enough for file-sharing. For a long time, online videos were something special — uploaded to archaic file-sharing sites or hosted as Flash animations or passed around message boards as very early-stage YouTube links. Then, suddenly, there were tons of videos on the internet, with no real way to find them other than via bloggers and other curators. If yo

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