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It's actually wholesome that early internet most famous meme/ viral video is a song about "never giving someone up and never letting them down" (lemmy.world)
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[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 145 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Rick roll is hardly early internet.

Source, im old

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, but goatse isn't very wholesome. Let the kid believe :P

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

You're the man now dog?

Dancing baby?

Hell there were viral things before Google existed.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Goatse is the definition of some hole, tub girl on the other hand...

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No, but it is hole-some.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star wars kid, daft punk hands, daft punk girls, ninja kid there are tons of earlier internet memes.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I forgot about daft punk hands. Wow.

Badger badger badger was always fun. So was End of ze world.

And even those are pretty late memes.

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second this comment. I am old too. 🤣

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think all your base is pretty wholesome :3

I mean, TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG!! 🥰

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even that one wasn't that early. That was like 2000/2001 or something like that. I remember listening to the mp3 of the song on my drive to college.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually it was found that Rick roll was originally inspired by an old Internet video dated back to the late 70s. They did a research on that if you're interested.

[–] PithyPolynym@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Knew what "a research" was linking to, but I clicked it anyway.

[–] blindjezebel@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I got an ad before the video, ffs. My day is ruined.

[–] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ope, link preview coming in clutch.

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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You spoiled the surprise

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, not everyone has the ID memorised... I'm not one of them, but still

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Why, when I saw my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!