Rick roll is hardly early internet.
Source, im old
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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Yeah, but goatse isn't very wholesome. Let the kid believe :P
You're the man now dog?
Dancing baby?
Hell there were viral things before Google existed.
Goatse is the definition of some hole, tub girl on the other hand...
No, but it is hole-some.
Star wars kid, daft punk hands, daft punk girls, ninja kid there are tons of earlier internet memes.
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.
I second this comment. I am old too. 🤣
I think all your base is pretty wholesome :3
I mean, TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG!! 🥰
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
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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.
Knew what "a research" was linking to, but I clicked it anyway.
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Why, when I saw my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!
2007 wasn’t early internet lol.
Early internet’s most famous meme was probably either hamster dance or dancing baby. All Your Base wasn’t long after.
That toaster cat shitting rainbows!
Edit or the beep beep frog with the schlong
Edit edit: guess that last one was a whole video...not a meme
Re: peanut butter jelly time - my 8 year old picked it up somewhere along the way and is one of his favorite songs now.
I mean there were even fax machine "memes". Checkout Faxlore if you weren't around at the time.
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I miss the days of looping flash videos. The Badger Song, The Llama Song, Magical Trevor, etc. Those defined my childhood.
Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers mushroom mushroom
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Nuhuh.
True early internet meme was pics from Madonna's coffee table book. Iykyk.
For sure dancing baby. Was shared as an attachment on emails even before YouTube was a thing
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Like many other commenters, I wouldn't consider rickrolling to be "early internet." First of all it's a mutation of the duckroll meme, and dates as late as 2007. Trogdor predates rickrolling by 5 years.
But, I do have to say, I appreciate the rickroll as the internet's official prank. Tricking someone into watching a slightly cheesy but inoffensive music video to an actually pretty good song about being a faithful lover is pretty okay.
It's better than when a link could bring you to meatspin, lemon party, or Goatse
Don't forget tubgirl!
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Consummate V's!!!!!
Youtube isn't the early internet friend.
I still remember the first time someone told me about YouTube. I thought they were saying U2, the bad, and was really confused.
Fuck I'm old.
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Just for a bit of context I was "surfing the internet" in 1994 via Gopher, an early alternative to the web as we know it now and I used it primarily to find and download apps stored on computers connected to the internet.
In 1995 I was using the Mosaic browser and later Netscape to surf the World Wide Web mostly via webrings that were individual webpages that had links to other wepages of similar content linked to them.
I don't recall and am not aware of anything that would resemble a meme from that time? This is a year or so before Dancing Baby which is usually considered the first viral video and even then that was originally shared via email forwards.
Memes back then were under construction gifs.
Geocities circa 94-96. The first place anyone could have a little webpage.
We didn't even have CSS then! We had to build our pages in a cave with a box of HTML tags for scraps. You could do some sick shit with some fancy nested TABLE tags tho.
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Usenet was absolutely swarming with memes. They were text-based rather than image-based but they were definitely memes.
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This is the moment to mention that Rick Astley still makes music and just released a new song, it's called Never gonna stop. I'm not kidding, also, it's a banger.
Rick Astley is an amazing vocalist, for real. I've heard some of his more recent stuff, and it's very good.
With that being said, I'm still not clicking that link
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Dancing baby is the early internet meme.
I hate that baby!
That was not early internet.
My spoon is too big
Lol dude what the fuck? That is not early Internet. That's a good decade and a half past early Internet.
Hah. "early internet." Just like how Video Games' first foray into existence was in 2003 with Knights of the Old Republic. Before then, nothing existed.
"You wouldn't get this from any other guy" is less wholesome and more incel, TBF.
Memes are as old as humanity, so Internet memes are as old as the Internet, starting ca. 1993.
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