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Before there was the Numa Numa Dance or Mentos in Diet Coke, we haplessly surfed an interwebz populated by animated GIFs and 11-year-olds looking for love...

E-mail forwards and random web droppings eventually gave way to viral video as we know it -- but we couldn't have gotten here without those extra-cheesy contributions of the late '90s.

Before Web 2.0, we took what we could get. And maybe, just maybe, we miss it a little. Here are some of our favorite blasts from the past.

  • 1. Schfifty-Five by Group X, 1999 - One of the first viral flash animation/music videos


  • 2. Hello My Future Girlfriend, 1998-99 - The infamous 11-year-old's web personal ad with creepy audio


  • 3. Mock G.I. Joe PSAs, 1998-99 - First recontextualized video series that went viral





  • 5. Hamster Dance, 1998 - The e-mail forward of choice for cat-lady receptionists and moms everywhere