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.
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 month ago
internet’s oldest memes
2005
Dancing baby would like a word
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All your base are belong to us.
Make your time…
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mushroom Mushroom
Visstix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah that’s maybe youtube’s oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dancing baby was way before youtube existed
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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@lemmings.world 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 1 month ago
I meant leroy, not the baby.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Lol for real… This title made me feel old
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
one of
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 month ago
10 years…
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 month ago
20
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 month ago
10 years between Dancing Baby and Leeroy Jenkins
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Chewbacca would like a word.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Chewbacca are my balls.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You get it