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[–] Denjin 112 points 1 month ago (7 children)

internet's oldest memes

2005

Dancing baby would like a word

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All your base are belong to us.

Make your time...

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Mushroom Mushroom

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah that's maybe youtube's oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Denjin 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Lol for real... This title made me feel old

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Denjin 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Denjin 2 points 1 month ago

10 years between Dancing Baby and Leeroy Jenkins

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?