Microsoft - History of the Internet

2009 OMMA Award Winner for Best [Standalone] Online Video

This video was created for a web developers conference in Las Vegas called MIX09. However due to its humorous content, we knew that it had the capacity to go viral. After it initially aired at MIX09, the web developers in the room started to Tweet about it. We responded to those Tweets by offering up a tinyurl link to the video. The number of Tweets escalated until it was one of the top 10 Tweeted items of the day. It was then picked up by a number of the major tech blogs and was covered by the LA Times. At nearly five minutes long, this video is longer than your standard viral fair. However, the video has still managed to spread virally. When a corporation such as Microsoft can show a sense of humor, it gives the video an element of surprise.