2012 – 2016
Take a Trip Back
A little walk down memory lane from our IHS years.
2012
- ✦Gangnam Style broke YouTube.
- ✦Instagram had just launched Android, and Facebook bought it for $1B.
- ✦London Olympics. Team USA cleaned up.
2013
- ✦Vine: seven seconds, endless replays. RIP.
- ✦Harlem Shake was… a thing.
- ✦"Blurred Lines" was inescapable.
- ✦The word "selfie" made Oxford Dictionary's word of the year.
2014
- ✦Flappy Bird, deleted before we could win.
- ✦Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS.
- ✦Frozen: "Let It Go" on repeat.
- ✦iPhone 6 finally went big.
2015
- ✦The dress: blue/black or white/gold?
- ✦Left Shark stole the Super Bowl.
- ✦Back to the Future 2 said we'd have hoverboards. Sort of.
- ✦Adele's "Hello"… hello from the other siiiiiiide.
2016
- ✦Senior year at IHS. Enough said.
- ✦Pokémon GO took over every park in Jersey.
- ✦"Damn, Daniel." Back at it again with the white Vans.
- ✦Beyoncé dropped Lemonade.
- ✦Gas: about $2.14/gal · Movie ticket: about $8.65 · Netflix: $9.99/mo
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