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 *[[Adobe Flash]] was released in 1996, providing a platform for creating and sharing digital content.
 *In 1999, [[Frau1.exe]] was considered the first screamer [[game]] created as a trojan. Additionally in 1999, [[Albino Blacksheep]] was created initially as a personal platform for Steven Lerner's creations, but evolved into hosting user-generated content. Tekzone.net was also created as another platform for user-generated content on November 29, 1999, which later became the infamous [[TeKZoned]] website.
+==2000s==
+===2000===
+*In March 2000, Meal Schpeal founded Liquid Generation in Laredo, Texas, which gained notoriety for their Sabotage screamers, a series of online pranks that culminated in a jump scare to startle or embarrass the viewer.
+*In October 2000, Ogrish.com launched as a website for hosting shock videos and images. Later that year, in December 2000, the infamous image for Tubgirl first circulated around the internet.
+*The first version of Winterrowd.com, named "Winterrowd Solutions," was made in the spring 2000. The website did not contain any screamers until shortly after the rise of Winterrowd's creation, The Maze.
+*During 2000, Monster.exe and McDonalds.exe emerged as .swf or program applications in the Chinese community, with the former being a screamer and the latter being a joke malicious program.
+*Magic Eye was submitted as a "contributed work" of the Goatse website.
+===2001===
+*During summer 2001, scareware programs such as Hikaru.exe and Madoka.exe were created and spread in Japan. On July 26, 2001, the website YTMND was registered with its name derived from a line spoken by Sean Connery in the movie Finding Forrester.
+*In 2001, internet troll Kevin Ealy launched Klerck.org, which hosted famous shock content including Dance.swf. This year also saw the release of Rate My Poo, which allowed users to view and rate pictures of feces on a scale of 1 to 10. Liquid Generation also introduced their Sabotage screamers this year.
+===2002===
+*During the early 2002, An animated image of a messy room became popular and circulated on various websites, including TeKZoned. Kikia, a Flash animation, was also first posted on a Taiwanese service called Kimo by Netspooky in early 2002.
+*In February 2002, What's Wrong? was released, which is considered one of the most famous screamers of all time. This screamer was the first to use the famous image of a pale woman with black eyes and her hands on her face with her pinky fingers raised, which many other screamers in future years imitated.
+*On October 3, 2002, Lemonparty.org was registered, inspired by the infamous Goatse.cx website.
+*Nickelodeon created a Clickamajig game called Black Licorice on October 31st, 2002, but it was quickly removed from the website due to complaints from parents.
+*GNAA, an internet trolling organization, was founded in 2002.
+*Say It, created around 2002, was considered to be the first screamer to use the Regan MacNeil.
+*Reaction videos using screamers were already being used in 2002. The first known example is the video "What's Wrong With This Picture?" which featured a blonde woman trying to identify the problem with an image before being startled by an eyeless woman with a loud scream.
+*Forest-wmv screamer circulated with its alternative names martian-wmv, jungle-wmv, and jungle.mp4. It was also claimed that it was hosted on Albino Blacksheep with the name forest.mp4.