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WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah that's maybe youtube's oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I meant leroy, not the baby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week 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.