Antique Memes Roadshow

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Not sure if antique or prehistoric (i.giphy.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Badger Badger was 2003, and it was the first thing I saw escape the confines of internet nerd-dom and go viral in office spaces. Dancing Baby was mid-90's, so several years earlier, but I never saw it referenced out of the community of the terminally online. Heck, the web was still in it's infancy in the mid-90's.

[–] mark3748 10 points 6 months ago

It was on Ally McBeal and then in other mainstream media for years. It was the origin of the term “viral video”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Dancing baby made the news and I think it was even in a movie or two.