internet's oldest memes
2005
Dancing baby would like a word
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Lol for real... This title made me feel old
one of
10 years...
20
10 years between Dancing Baby and Leeroy Jenkins
Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?
All your base are belong to us.
Make your time...
Mushroom Mushroom
Yeah, dancing baby was 1996, 9 years before 2005, which is an eternity in internet years. Leeroy is one of the internet's older memes, sure, but way too new to qualify as one of the oldest.
Chewbacca would like a word.
Chewbacca ate my balls.
You get it
Yeah that's maybe youtube's oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.
Dancing baby was way before youtube existed
There was a lady lawyer show on TV called ally mcbeal and she was like crazy or something and used to hallucinate the dancing baby. I don't remember it that well as it was an old people show and I was a kid but yeah way before youtube
Dancing baby was everywhere, truly the first Internet driven viral phenomenon. And yes, it did feature in Ally McBeal which was a huge TV show mid-late 90s which goes to illustrate how truly viral the dancing baby meme was at a time where Internet usage was still limited to only a minority of people with access to desktop computers.
I meant leroy, not the baby.
Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit
One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.
I feel like Leeroy Jenkins is the millenials "Jeronimo", I 100% shout it in its place and I can assure you some shouted it while jumping out of an airplane and their instuctor or officer had no clue what they were talking about, and that will always make me chuckle.
Ya rly!
NO WAI!
A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, "yes, yes I know about that video." She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.
There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao
My wife loved it too even though she didn't play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.
She couldn't get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.
I did have to explain DKP
"So basically imagine if capitalists distributed loot"
Man, reading that old 2005 PC Gamer article really brings me back to older, better and happier times of gaming journalism too. It even mentions the bundled DVD with demos, mods and goodies you'd get each month. Those really were the days.
Sure but... I'm subscribed to Humble Monthly. So instead of getting a CD with a magazine containing a bunch of demos, I get a bunch of keys for full games. A lot of them pretty neat indies.
For gaming news... Well, on Lemmy there's this guy.
Not a guy
They just don't make memes like they used to, and none of us can just run in without fearing the wrath of strangers. The folks who take games too seriously won.
Maybe not everywhere, but multiplayer games for sure have more serious elements to them than I ever thought.
In a way, this is what I wanted back in the 90s when so few people understood the potential of video games as a serious art form.
Wait, what? Ask A Ninja uploaded a new video?!
It's been - what? - 14 years since the last one...
Is the internet coming back alive again? Is nature healing?
Homestar Runner released a video too!
Ask a ninja is back! He's been uploading at least once a week for a couple weeks now.
I get what you meant but a couple means 2, so someone uploading once a week for a couple of weeks means he uploaded 2 videos, which could just be coincidence, not a pattern.
Wish leeroy wasn't staged man. Biggest disappointment.
Yeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.
We'll always have the memories from before we knew.
hahahha oh man, I've never seen that. that's really funny.
He’s done a couple new ones, exact same format and theme song and everything. It was surreal having that pop up in front of me.
Still one of my favorite memes of all time.