This refers to a notable 4chan cyberbullying event that become a popular meme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejGGwq4qTmE

The Google Play Store is an open system wherein developers can push their code to the store almost immediately. This is great for developers who play by the rules (or play by the norms), but since lots of developers employ dark patterns, the Play Store has a lot more spammy and shitty apps than the App Store.

People became less likely to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing clients like Limewire for music.

Limewire became known for the prevalence with which it infected users' computers with malware. File uploaders often embedded executable files into music downloads, leading to suspicious filenames like britney-spears-toxic-2007.mp3.exe

Weev is a hacker who discovered a vulnerability in AT&T’s system that exposed the emails of over 100,000 people. Weev allegedly (I’m informed by the tales of Internet lore) tried to disclose this vulnerability to AT&T but was largely ignored. When he made the emails public, he was convicted and sent to prison.

The blue box is a device that generates the same tones as a telephone operator’s dialing console, allowing the user to make calls for free.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are known to have built and distributed these boxes for fun and profit.

When he was a young teen, Tom Anderson (aka Myspace Tom) was a hacker known by the pseudonym Lord Flathead.

At age 14, he cracked the security of Chase Bank via a telephone modem. Tom’s house was later raided by the FBI.

aka money

I’m gonna cut the Snapchat stuff off here. If you’re interested in elaboration, I wrote a full blog post about Snapchat, discussing how it changed social norms and how it violated users' privacy. You should read it – after I blasted their “public leaderboard”, they killed the feature.