In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.
“I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup…those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more”
Remember goatse? Wasn’t that a cute rabbit?
Sending your friend’s email contacts and invite to the lemon party they were hosting
Was always quite fond of TubGirl, myself
So to this day, I don’t know, what was on her face? I’m not talking about the liquid diarrhoea, but like was it a slice of American cheese?
Same thing
I think it was just a weirdly square splash? I actually had to go look it up because I didn’t remember anything other than the golden arch.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
No, that was the 2001 election webpage. You’re thinking of tubgirl.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Blue Waffle.
My fav sfw
Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.
Guy opens a-bag-of-doritos to show everybody.
You mean people won’t even remember who all the base are belong to?
Or even who can have a cheeseburger
I only remember who can has cheeseburger.
Who can have one?
Fat kitty cat can haz chezburgr, but that cropped up a few years later, I believe.
Make your time.
I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
You forgot Tubgirl
No I didn’t… You never forget
Truth.
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R
Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff’s 1997 cover of Blue Swede’s cover of BJ Thomas’s “Hooked on a Feeling”
I do remember. 2003.
Close, 1998.
Technically, 1996.
Figuratively, 1987.
Theoretically 1832.
The episode aired in January 1998
Remember Mr T Ate My Balls? Remember Mahir “I Will Kiss You”?
Do you remember “Papa Smurf, Can I Lick Your Ass?” None of my friends do. It was either weeble’s stuff or ebaum’s world, I don’t even remember, it’s all like rustling leaves in my brain.
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
Legend.
The original was better
And more accessible to photosensitive epileptics!
What you say…?
MAIN SCREEN TURN ON
We got signal!
Domo arigato.
Kilroy!
Kilroy was here
Damn, an even more ancient meme
Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary’s silly dance and lip sync to the “numa numa” song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don’t miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days…
There’s been an HD version for a few years now
That’s beautiful. It’s looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D
Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect…
Fun story: Someone said he was only popular because of the pretty girls in his videos, so he dropped this banger with only himself in it.
Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here’s awesome band Red Baraat covering it!
Don’t check his Wikipedia page if you still want to enjoy that song.
After all these years I still don’t understand if what he did was amoral-- the “human trafficking” listed on the page was to smuggle people into the US, but that’s as much information as I can find. If he put those people into nefarious circumstances that’s one thing, but if he basically acted as a conduit to get people into the US who otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity it’s a different matter entirely.
I’d love some clarification on the issue.
From what I can find, he took money from some people to get them into Canada and the US illegally then did nothing, then he took 2 groups into the US as his tour dancers so they could enter the US illegally.
He’s no sex trafficker as far as I can see, but taking money from people trying to get out of their country then not doing it is a cunt act, even if they were gonna be going into the us illegally.
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🐴 🤩
👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.
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Or something like that
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☝️🤓 🪐>(🌆🌇🌉)
🤫👩 👉🐴You win, that was genuinely magical
I could hear this comment thread
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🎼 Get on my horse…… 🎶
I think that’s cute they think those were the first memes.
That badger animation is from 2003. “First memes,” my ass!
First ERA of memes is implied.
2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.
But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.
Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.
Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!
Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”
this is the most Eternal September thing I’ve ever heard
That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.
I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.
And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.
I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.
And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.
Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!
Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.
And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.
I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
Terrible‽ The fuck you on about?
Remember the time you defended deportation for autism awareness tattoos?
No because I didn’t do that, you’re still a moron and a stalker that is worthy of reporting.
Report away friend, just make sure you don’t have any visible tattoos because that might cause problems.
That’s the funny thing, I do. But I would never compare them to the numbers printed on the prisoners at Auschwitz, because that would be something only a gigantic asshole would do!
“the first memes” yeah right
The Hampster Dance meme happened 5 years before the Badger meme.
Whoever made that gif should be punished.
It’s Hampster, because it’s in honor of Hampton the Hampster.
Also, did you know where the Hampster dance is from, as music? I was today years old when I learned this.
Robin Hood being my favorite Disney movie from my childhood, I did indeed know that! I liked the song before I ever saw the Hampater Dance, so it was a shock to me seeing it the first time
I loved it as a kid but never made the connection consciously as far as I remember.
Also fine, but I guess what I was trying to express is that memes have existed forever and any claim that this is the “first” one is just silly.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg
All your base are belong to us!
I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.
Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for “nerds”.
I remember when nornies didn’t even know how to.
And now we’ve gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.
Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.
My mom used to call the house from work at a random time between when my brother and I got home from school and when she left work. If she got a busy signal, she would wait about 15 minutes to half an hour and call back. If she got a busy signal a second time she would assume one of us was on the Internet and we would get in trouble when she got home.
Oh that’s pretty smart of mom.
I’m getting nostalgic over thinking about the sound of the modem and the emotions that went with it.
If she knew a little more, she could be calling until crash the connection.
Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the word f*ggot was used constantly.
Like, constantly.
Eddie Murphy’s one earlier standup special (Raw?) drops it a bunch. I meannn even in the later oughts the one big joke in The Hangover was “paging Dr. Faggot!!!” Straight up trailer material to boot, if I’m not mistaken. More like 80s-early 2000s. Most people learned over time to change for the better socially, for a bit at least.
For me, I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I (thought I) didn’t know a single gay person personally. So many people were in the closet back then.
I didn’t really say fag much but for us kids, gay meant lame. “That’s gay” - I would hear or say it many times a day. It didn’t even mean homosexual, although once I got older I could see how it was harmful. Once people I knew came out and I knew gay adults I made the conscious decision to stop saying it.
Hardly unique to there though. It was a dark time.
That’s true enough, I guess we were formed & forged out of necessity. If you wanted to surf web well, you had to figure all kinds of shit out. If you wanted to pirate, same deal. Watch porn? Better delete that web history, but also make it look believable.
It was baked into our brains at a young, impressionable age. And we absorbed it all.
Now these kids don’t seem to know how to do shit. Frustrating. They should be tech savvy.
I know parents who don’t own PCs. Just phones. A bunch of working class kids are without access to a PC. Of course they’re going to be worse at it than we were. How are they supposed to learn?
It’s not like we did it because we wanted to show off our useful skills on the job market, lol.
I was chronically online back then! Haha I mean, not chronically necessarily, but I got super into el interneto around 1995 and then waxing and waning every now and again. 2002 I was a journalist…yep chronically online for sure!
Anyway, thanks for linking that. I realized that I just completely forgot about anything other than the “badger badger badger” line. It’s been so long and I’m old. :)
a few years earlier
7 years earlier, to be precise.
Yeah, but back then the internet wasn’t as obiquitous as it is now, so something being online didn’t necessarily mean that you’d have seen it, whereas now if something is a hit you’ll see it in a matter of hours, really.
Like I probably did see the Hampster dance in the 90’s possibly, but like the computer in the library wasn’t one you could really use the speakers on, and I think it took until like 99-00 for dad to get a computer with an Internet connection. No it couldn’t have been that late I was looking up Zelda faqs when playing Ocarina of Time and that was a few years earlier, as N64 came out in 1996. OOT came out in 98 okay.
Same.
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Too too too doodledoo
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👤🤙⬜🏠, 💬🗨️
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The first? Idk about that, im 27. And am well aware of memes prior to my existance. The oldest i can think of is the dancing baby meme.
Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance
Dancing Baby was the first normie meme. Its popularity spread through TV and print.
All Your Base is more of an actual “first” internet meme.
A/S/L?
19/F/Hawaii any hot guys here?
I should download an IRC client. Is mIRC still around?
Yup
hunter2
Bash.org is still available - https://bash-org-archive.com/
/slap
Are you challenging me to a bass off?
That’s not a meme. That’s a chat room.
14/f/france
🎶 Can’t touch this
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Damn totally forgot about “all your base are belong to us” what a trip. But i was going for viral normie memes since i mainly remember these memes taking popularity outside of the internet. People were singing the hamster song at parties when i was little so i think its influence as a meme was way more than even dancing baby. And then later 2003 or 4 the badger song. And after a while that duck song took off and my little sister wouldnt stop asking “got any grapes”?
You normie. You forgot the 2002 classic, Peanut butter Jelly time.
Anything that showed up on Family Guy is a certified normie meme.
damn… you got me. Heres my degen card.
You can have it back, but im putting a hole punch in it first.
And with 10 holes you get a free sub.
Memes are also not inherently digital. Going back to the definition set by Richard Dawkins (trans-hating bigot he is), a meme is anything that “conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” Perhaps that’s a bit broad of a definition compared to what we conventionally think of as memes, but it’s how we got to where we are.
People in ancient Egypt building pyramids and obelisks because someone before them built pyramids and obelisks is a meme. Cathedrals being built in much the same way throughout Renaissance Europe is a meme.
But those examples aside, there are still a few pre-internet examples that would still resonate more with the idea of memes as we know them today. Kilroy was Here is considered a meme and goes back to World War II. Or a bit before that, this “How you think you look” cartoon which I am not entirely sure was overly meme-like in its day but certainly feels relatable today.
But even slogans or popular sayings could be considered memes; if we consider internet terms/phrases like “pog” or “Are ya winning, son?” or (dating myself) “I can haz cheezburger?” to be memes, what about pre-internet sayings like “Luke, I am your father,” “It’s just a flesh wound,” or “Where’s the beef?” Or going way, way back, what about saying “Break a leg” before a performance, or “All the world’s a stage,” or even “Carpe diem”? I think one could make a case for just about any repeated and widely understood concept, really.
Knights fighting snails goes back even further.
Even further back, cave paintings of spirals and stenciled hands.
Memes don’t need to be digital
Hey guys… remember Newgrounds? Heh… Remember Spoony? Hehe…
How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven’t kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.
He was doing let’s plays last i saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.
