Celebrate the best bits of broadband with Virgin Media
Virgin Media have unveiled its new ‘10 Things Project’ website as part of its ongoing celebrations of a decade of broadband. First launched by Virgin Media on 31st March 2000, broadband inspired the nation with music, video, virals, gossip, games and so much more. Ten years on, the ‘10 Things Project’, available at 10thingsproject.com, is set to capture the favourite bits and bobs that we’ve lost, treasured or forgotten, to immortalise the most definitive list of the best, or worst, that broadband has brought us over the last decade.
The ‘10 Things Project’ provides visitors a social platform to pick and choose their favourite ten things from the net. 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’ will allow users to share their thoughts through social networks or just browse others’ favourite picks and reminisce about all those dodgy viral emails we’d all rather forget!
Through a choice of ten distinct categories, web fans will have the chance to build their own historic picture - a time-capsule - from the funniest, scariest, weirdest and most memorable web moments. To help visitors create their '10 Things', the site pulls in popular content from sites such as YouTube and Flickr to locate images and videos to depict their chosen moments and memories. For example type in your favourite artist, celebrity or movie star and pick from a list of their best moments on the web and post them to your page before sharing through social networks for friends and family to see.
Jon James, executive director of Broadband said, “We’ve had some real fun putting together the 10 Things Project. 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.”
Giving an insight to the popular picks, an overview of visitors’ choices are gathered onto the ‘Our 10 things’ home page which forms a collective digital picture of the decade’s best bits. Users can click on the various elements to get inspiration for their own choices or simply enjoy the YouTube vids, websites, film clips, images or soundtracks of the decade and mutter ‘Oh I remember that!’. Will Lady Gaga be the most wanted artist to have over for dinner? Will The Twilight Saga be chosen as the favourite movie? Or will YOUR tweet or status be immortalised for everyone to revere? You decide!
To join the fun, visit 10thingsproject.com and mark your favourite bits of history.