Kilroy!
Domo arigato.
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
Legend.
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.”
I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
Kilroy was here
Damn, an even more ancient meme
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
Hey guys… remember Newgrounds? Heh… Remember Spoony? Hehe…
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.
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. :)
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.
Hardly unique to there though. It was a dark time.
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.
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.
Good God, this takes me back to middle school when we were obsessed with this song/chant/animation (what even was it?)
“the first memes” yeah right
All your base are belong to us!
Why do you think the web was born? Porn porn porn!
And NOW I have that song stuck in my head. You people are terrible for my productivity … of reading random Lemmy posts.
A song stuck in your head?
Allow me.
Reading about the Hampster Dance just now, I learned that it’s actually sampled from this. I was today years when I learned why it had always seemed so familiar when first hearing it.
I hate each and every one of you know. This is basically psychological warfare.
(I really don’t hate anyone and I honestly kinda like the hamster dance song).
I hate each and every one of you know.
The syntax is sort of weird. Does it imply I have multiple personalities? Or that you hate every one of the personalities I know about?
Punctuation matters. It’s the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
No I was referring to the others that had suggested other ear-worms that I can’t get out of my head now. Sorry for the confusion.
And if I had an uncle Jack, I’d probably do both? Just kidding, he could likely get down on his own.
(Ok this was funny in my head… I’m weird)
Yeah I got that. But I woke up somewhat drunk and had some… musings.
(Ok this was funny in my head… I’m weird)
Me too man. Me too.
Thanks, now I have that freakin’ song stuck in my head.
And fuck I feel old now. Get off my lawn!!!
I’m still stuck on CAT. Imma kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance, and I dance-dance-dance
I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
The picture is missing two badgers (sing the song in your head and count).
I am too old to remember this
Oooh, that was when Mayahee, mayahoo was first on YT wasn’t it? That and all those twisted humour animations. Fun and disturbing times.
Did you just call NumaNuma mayahee, mayahoo?
Apologies, it’s been a while I forgot the name. I just knew it started like that.
