Wednesday, November 28, 2018

SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg gave the internet language

Although SpongeBob SquarePants has been airing more or less consistently for nearly 20 years, the show’s first three seasons — which aired between 1999 and 2004 — were its most influential. Those 60 episodes were the only ones personally overseen by creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died yesterday from ALS. They aired during a critical period for today’s 20-something adults. We were young enough to be engrossed with the show’s silly, absurd characters, returning home after school to watch any episode of SpongeBob that played on Nickelodeon. I was seven when SpongeBob first aired, and I recall those early seasons vividly.

It was also a time when that same generation was just starting to go online, eventually making the internet what it is...

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