I thought so! I remember setting up all the computers in the labs to start playing the musical All Your Base animation at the same time at full volume. That was definitely 2000 or early 2001.
It's like someone posted a clip of Technoviking earlier, and the Wikipedia entry said it went viral in 2007 on Youtube, but I swear I saw it on ebaumsworld by 2003. It apparently happened in 2000 and uploaded to the internet in 2001 so it's not impossible.
I did enjoy when TBS bought Walker Texas Ranger, which allowed Conan to have a Chuck Norris lever that played a random out of context clip every time he pulled it.
They were a derivation of very similar Vin Diesel facts, though the Vin Diesel facts depicted him as badass without deifying him. I liked those better in many ways.
There was one that I saw, IRL and really wish I had gotten a picture of. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had a dent in the side that looked like it got slammed into a telephone pole, and pushed in the rear passenger door and window. The owner had painted on the side of it, "CN was here."
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 72 pts · 271d
the years for norris facts and rickroll are correct, but all your base was a meme by 2000 and Leeroy Jenkins happened in 2005.
fitgse@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 271d
Yup. When I entered college in computer science in 2001, there was an all your base belong to us joke in it, which means it was at least a year old
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 271d
I started in the fall of 99 and that spring semester it was evertwhere. It was like, 6-7 levels for a while
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 270d
Golden age of internet
czardestructo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 271d
Sigh. 20 years ago. Thanks for that...
ksigley@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 271d
There's still plenty of time left, old boy. Spend it wisely.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 270d
Too expensive to spend on anything.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 270d
I thought so! I remember setting up all the computers in the labs to start playing the musical All Your Base animation at the same time at full volume. That was definitely 2000 or early 2001.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 270d
It's like someone posted a clip of Technoviking earlier, and the Wikipedia entry said it went viral in 2007 on Youtube, but I swear I saw it on ebaumsworld by 2003. It apparently happened in 2000 and uploaded to the internet in 2001 so it's not impossible.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 271d
I for one do not miss the jokes deifying the second rate martial artist/fifth rate actor/first rate bigoted fundie at all.
They got old somewhere around the second or third one and then people kept doing it for like a fucking DECADE if not longer!
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 271d
Originally the Norris jokes were ironic, because he played "badass" roles in a bunch of shitty movies.
Of course that went the way every single ironic joke goes.
ksigley@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 271d
I'm waiting for the "Change my mind" meme format to die because I'm tired of seeing Crowder's stupid, racist face.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 270d
I did enjoy when TBS bought Walker Texas Ranger, which allowed Conan to have a Chuck Norris lever that played a random out of context clip every time he pulled it.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 270d
That was the only good running Chuck Norris joke. Walker was so absurd even in context, the lever just made it hilarious.
deathbird@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 270d
They were a derivation of very similar Vin Diesel facts, though the Vin Diesel facts depicted him as badass without deifying him. I liked those better in many ways.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 270d
There was one that I saw, IRL and really wish I had gotten a picture of. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had a dent in the side that looked like it got slammed into a telephone pole, and pushed in the rear passenger door and window. The owner had painted on the side of it, "CN was here."
That one made me chuckle.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 271d
When Chuck Norris walks into a bar, the bar says "Ouch."
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 14 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups, he pushes the Earth away.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 12 pts · 271d
The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris once killed two stones with one bird.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 13 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris was once bitten by a poisonous snake. And after a month of excruciating pain, the snake died.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris made his cowboy boots himself from real cowboys.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 10 pts · 271d
Chuck Norris can make onions cry.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
Chuck is the poisonous one, since the snake died. The snake was venomous.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 6 pts · 270d
I'm so glad pedantry is not dead.
opossumo@lemmings.world · 15 pts · 271d
AYB is from like 1997.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 270d
thank you, that was bugging me
i got dsl right before d2 and this meme was already all over
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 12 pts · 271d
AYABTU is older than 2004, isn't it?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 271d
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
Here I got us some ibuprofen.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 2 pts · 271d
Thanks
4am@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 271d
At least 4 years older
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
There were T-Shirts with Zero Wing quotes on them in 2001, so yeah
aramis87@fedia.io · 11 pts · 271d
You should post that Egyptian meme with all the other memes hieroglyphed on the wall ...
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 20 pts · 271d
Like this?
dumbass@piefed.social · 24 pts · 271d
aramis87@fedia.io · 1 pts · 271d
That's not Loss!
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 270d
Hello all you gentlemen.
bfg9k@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 270d
WHAT YOU SAY??
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
You are on your way to destruction. Make your time.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
Someone set us up the bomb.
tym@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
deathbird@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 270d
Thanks for your service.