The Internet in our country came in the late 90s and early 2000s. At that time, people did not know what the internet was, how to use it and how to spend time on the internet. As the ShiftDelete.Net family, we established our website in 2005, which is a pioneer in Turkey’s internet journalism era. Maybe we weren’t phenomena at that time, but Türkiye had started to produce the first internet phenomena. Here are Turkey’s first internet phenomena…
The first phenomena that left their mark on Türkiye’s internet history
1- The Internet
Internet Mahir Çağrı, nicknamed Mahir, became the first internet phenomenon both in Turkey and in the world with his website I Kiss You, which he founded in 1999. Internet Mahir, who introduced himself in his humble English on the website he established, reached millions of people in a short time and became a popular person all over the world.
Private parties and celebrations were organized around the world, and he received movie offers with various content. Internet Mahir, who rejected these offers and returned to the country, is now married and leads a happy life. Internet Mahir’s website ranked 3rd in the list of “100 memorable internet events” prepared by Yahoo in its 10th year.
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2- Uncle Christmas
“I am Uncle Noel, young man. I’ll cripple anyone who doesn’t like my gift, hey!” Uncle Santa with the slogan is actually a line design. Uncle Noel, who became famous on the site Grafi2000, was created by a user with the nickname flashberk. Uncle Noel, which has his own unique style, met with the users with his animation videos. He then left an indelible mark on the internet world.
3- Ayça_22
Especially by MSN users, Ayça_22 is the first love of every male user who has just entered the internet world. Ayça_22 is actually an internet virus. At that time, people who used a user’s photos without permission made MSN-like virus ads saying Ayça_22 logged in. Those who clicked on these ads got many viruses on their computers. Who Ayça_22 was could not be solved for many years.
4- Karate Kamil
Karate Kamil, a fictional character like Uncle Noel, is a character created with the imagination of Cemre Özkurt, a Graphic Design graduate of Mimar Sinan University. Karate Kamil, who first appeared on the website called pistachio, was one of the candidates in the European Flash Festival in 2001. The first 4 episodes of Karate Kamil, which was published as an internet cartoon series, have been published. But episode 5 never came.
