2012

1. A milestone from 2012. Only real ones.

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• A second-grade memory: something in the basement, something at the pool.

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My tracks

On the charts that year

• Call Me MaybeCarly Rae Jepsen
• Somebody That I Used to KnowGotye ft. Kimbra
• Gangnam StylePSY
• We Are Youngfun. ft. Janelle Monáe
• PayphoneMaroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa
• What Makes You BeautifulOne Direction
• Thrift ShopMacklemore & Ryan Lewis

• Giants 21, Patriots 17Super Bowl XLVI, February 5. Eli over Brady, again.

• A photo from 2012. Drop files in public/photos/2012/ and run npm run photos.

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Video

• NBA 2K13mineOctober 2; Jay-Z as executive producer, and a Wii U launch game in November.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops IINovember 13; the future setting and Nuketown 2025.
• Nintendo Land and the Wii UNovember 18; the GamePad.
• New Super Mario Bros. UA Wii U launch game.
• Madden NFL 13Calvin Johnson; the Infinity engine.
• MLB 12: The ShowAdrian Gonzalez, then a Red Sox.
• Minecraft on Xbox 360May; split-screen on the couch.
• Halo 4November.
• Skylanders GiantsToys on a portal.
• Lego Batman 2June; the minifigs talk now.
• FIFA 13
• Temple Run and Subway Surfers
• JourneyMarch.

Mine

Everyone's

• Super Bowl XLVI on NBCFebruary 5; Giants 21, Patriots 17, Madonna at halftime.
• London on NBCJuly–August; Phelps' 22nd medal, Gabby Douglas, the women's soccer final.
• RG3 on Sunday nightsA rookie quarterback and a division title in Washington.
• The AvengersMay 4.
• The Dark Knight RisesJuly 20.
• The Hunger GamesMarch.
• SkyfallNovember.
• Wreck-It RalphNovember.
• BraveJune.
• Trouble with the CurveSeptember; Clint Eastwood as a Braves scout.
• Gangnam StyleJuly; the first video to a billion views, in December.
• Gravity Falls premieresJune.

• Celtics take the Heat to sevenEastern Conference Finals, June 9; LeBron's 45 in Game 6.
• LeBron's first titleNBA Finals, June 21; Heat over Thunder in five.
• Kings win the CupJune 11, as an eighth seed.
• London 2012Phelps finishes with 22 medals; Bolt repeats the double; the USWNT wins gold.

In the house

Out in the world

• iPhone 5Lightning connector and a taller screen.
• Windows 8 and SurfaceOctober 26; tiles on a desktop.
• iPad mini and the Retina iPad
• Nexus 7
• Wii UNovember 18; a controller with a screen.
• Apple MapsiOS 6's rough first version.
• Galaxy S III
• Raspberry PiA $35 computer, February.

• Strasburg shut downSeptember 8; 159 innings, and the Nationals stopped him with a division title coming.
• Harper, Rookie of the YearA 19-year-old with 22 homers; the Nationals won 98 games and the NL East.
• Giants sweep the TigersWorld Series, October 28; Pablo Sandoval's three homers in Game 1.
• RG3 wins the NFC EastDecember 30, beating Dallas; the Redskins' first division title since 1999.
• The Red Sox hit bottom69–93 under Bobby Valentine; the August trade that sent $260 million to the Dodgers.

• NBA 2K13 case
• Instagram filter
• Windows 8 tile
• Wii U GamePad
• iPhone 5
• Slender page

• Gangnam StyleJuly; the first video to a billion views, in December.
• Facebook buys Instagram$1 billion in April; Instagram for Android arrived the same week.
• Facebook IPOMay 18.
• Tumblr and Pinterest at their peak
• Kony 2012March; the fastest-spreading video to that point.
• Grumpy Cat, Bad Luck Brian, Overly Attached Girlfriend
• Ermahgerd
• Draw SomethingFifty million downloads in fifty days.
• Kickstarter's breakout yearPebble and Ouya.