the years for norris facts and rickroll are correct, but all your base was a meme by 2000 and Leeroy Jenkins happened in 2005.
Yup. When I entered college in computer science in 2001, there was an all your base belong to us joke in it, which means it was at least a year old
I started in the fall of 99 and that spring semester it was evertwhere. It was like, 6-7 levels for a while
Golden age of internet
Sigh. 20 years ago. Thanks for that...
There's still plenty of time left, old boy. Spend it wisely.
Too expensive to spend on anything.
I thought so! I remember setting up all the computers in the labs to start playing the musical All Your Base animation at the same time at full volume. That was definitely 2000 or early 2001.
It's like someone posted a clip of Technoviking earlier, and the Wikipedia entry said it went viral in 2007 on Youtube, but I swear I saw it on ebaumsworld by 2003. It apparently happened in 2000 and uploaded to the internet in 2001 so it's not impossible.
I for one do not miss the jokes deifying the second rate martial artist/fifth rate actor/first rate bigoted fundie at all.
They got old somewhere around the second or third one and then people kept doing it for like a fucking DECADE if not longer!
Originally the Norris jokes were ironic, because he played "badass" roles in a bunch of shitty movies.
Of course that went the way every single ironic joke goes.
I'm waiting for the "Change my mind" meme format to die because I'm tired of seeing Crowder's stupid, racist face.
I did enjoy when TBS bought Walker Texas Ranger, which allowed Conan to have a Chuck Norris lever that played a random out of context clip every time he pulled it.
That was the only good running Chuck Norris joke. Walker was so absurd even in context, the lever just made it hilarious.
They were a derivation of very similar Vin Diesel facts, though the Vin Diesel facts depicted him as badass without deifying him. I liked those better in many ways.
There was one that I saw, IRL and really wish I had gotten a picture of. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had a dent in the side that looked like it got slammed into a telephone pole, and pushed in the rear passenger door and window. The owner had painted on the side of it, "CN was here."
That one made me chuckle.
When Chuck Norris walks into a bar, the bar says "Ouch."
Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups, he pushes the Earth away.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris once killed two stones with one bird.
Chuck Norris was once bitten by a poisonous snake. And after a month of excruciating pain, the snake died.
Chuck Norris made his cowboy boots himself from real cowboys.
Chuck Norris can make onions cry.
Light doesn’t travel faster than Chuck Norris - he gives light a head start.
Whenever Chuck Norris’s parents had nightmares at night they would come to his bedroom.
Chuck Norris doesn’t lift weights. They rise out of respect.
Chuck Norris can win Connect4 in three moves
Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his toes.
Chuck is the poisonous one, since the snake died. The snake was venomous.
I'm so glad pedantry is not dead.
AYB is from like 1997.
AYABTU is older than 2004, isn't it?
Closer to '98/'99, and was alive still in 2000 but was already fading out by 2004.
Source: oldness.
Here I got us some ibuprofen.
Thanks
At least 4 years older
There were T-Shirts with Zero Wing quotes on them in 2001, so yeah
You should post that Egyptian meme with all the other memes hieroglyphed on the wall ...
Like this?
That's not Loss!
Hello all you gentlemen.
WHAT YOU SAY??
You are on your way to destruction. Make your time.
Someone set us up the bomb.
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