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Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere

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WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere

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Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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I'm comin' up with 32.33 (repeating of course) percentage of feeling your age.
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    internet’s oldest memes

    2005

    Dancing baby would like a word

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      Chewbacca would like a word.

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        Chewbacca ate my balls.

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          You get it

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      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.

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      All your base are belong to us.

      Make your time…

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        Mushroom Mushroom

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

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        Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

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          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

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            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.

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          I meant leroy, not the baby.

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            Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

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

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      Lol for real… This title made me feel old

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      one of

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        10 years…

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          20

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            10 years between Dancing Baby and Leeroy Jenkins

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      Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?

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