Twitter users reveal their age without revealing their age, make Orkut trend

A/S/L ? https://t.co/60vZyO215z

— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) January 26, 2022

Blank call! :) pic.twitter.com/RgN3lSMum0

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 26, 2022

The trend was triggered by a post asking, “Without saying you age, say something a young person today wouldn’t understand.” A Twitter handle named Keh Ke Peheno posed the question along with photographs of antenna and the Doordarshan icon. Among other things that the post dug out was Orkut.

What about you? pic.twitter.com/WdXhXYVgG8

— Keh Ke Peheno 🆒😜👕 (@coolfunnytshirt) January 26, 2022

As #Orkut started trending on the micro-blogging platform, memes, jokes and a generous dose of nostalgia flooded Twitter. Memes tried to explain Orkut to the younger generation used to Meta and Snapchat, while others remembered the good old time where online world came without controversies.

“Bhai please ek achha sa testimonial likh dena please…” pic.twitter.com/DKEyfC1ypi

— THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) January 26, 2022

Back in the day, they created tutorials on “how to chat” on #Orkut 🤣 pic.twitter.com/i4tdjnv2tY

— Arpit Apoorva (@arpit_apoorva) January 27, 2022

When I see #Orkut trending,
Orkut and Yahoo: pic.twitter.com/r6lNEJri0J

— ℳ𝓇.𝒜🏏 (@cricdrugs) January 27, 2022

how i feel while explaining Orkut to meta & snapchat generation. #orkut pic.twitter.com/orOzcV2sWd

— Shawez Shaikh 🇮🇳 (@ShawezITsales) January 27, 2022

Then also we use to check other profiles
Now also….

#ThrowbackThursday#Orkut pic.twitter.com/DtXvEtHavA

— Krupesh Kothari (@krupeshakothari) January 27, 2022

Life in #Orkut was simple. Idea of talking to a stranger from the other side of the world was amazing!

No controversies. Only scraps

— Abhinab Chetia (@jonak8) January 27, 2022

Why are people missing Orkut? pic.twitter.com/LC63e9F1iw

— WPSettingbox (@WPSettingbox) January 27, 2022

When i see Orkut trending 😍 pic.twitter.com/HpyTn8XzPy

— Vaiibhav Nigam (@writer_vaiibhav) January 27, 2022

Last pic of my Orkut account.🙁 pic.twitter.com/YcckI5RJbf

— Rahul Purbey 🇮🇳 (@rahul_purbey) January 26, 2022

Last year, a similar trend was seen when speculations were rife that Twitter and Facebook maybe banned in India. Among the many ‘Plan B’ that netizens came up with was the long lost Orkut.

Named after its creator Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish engineer working with Google at the time, the platform was launched in 2004 but gained widespread popularity in 2007-08, particularly in Brazil and India.

On September 30, 2014, the website announced that it was shutting down the platform. Although its creator later launched a similar platform called Hello, it never got the same love.

Orkut was launched in 2004, the same year when Facebook was founded. According to reports, Orkut was a “20 per cent project” or a project which was born out of Google workers spending a fifth of their time on ideas, not necessarily related to their job responsibilities.