Remember a time when sharing a funny clip or a shocking image meant sending it straight to someone's phone? That was often the world of viral MMS websites, a place where content really took off, seemingly overnight. These sites were once a big part of how things spread quickly, long before today's social feeds became the main way we share. It was a different kind of digital word-of-mouth, if you will.

Back then, the very idea of something becoming "viral" was pretty fascinating, too it's almost. As my text explains, something "viral" is a message or a clip that "spreads quickly because people share it on social media and send it to each other." This rapid propagation, this quick popularity, was the core of what made these MMS