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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

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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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I'm comin' up with 32.33 (repeating of course) percentage of feeling your age.
  • @Denjin@lemmings.world
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    114•4 days ago

    internet’s oldest memes

    2005

    Dancing baby would like a word

    • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      10•3 days ago

      All your base are belong to us.

      Make your time…

      • ms.lane
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        5•3 days ago

        Mushroom Mushroom

    • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      20•4 days ago

      Chewbacca would like a word.

      • @LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world
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        Chewbacca ate my balls.

        • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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          5•4 days ago

          You get it

    • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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      14•4 days ago

      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.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3•3 days ago

      Lol for real… This title made me feel old

    • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      3•3 days ago

      one of

      • @Denjin@lemmings.world
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        1•3 days ago

        10 years…

        • Something Burger 🍔
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          2•3 days ago

          20

          • @Denjin@lemmings.world
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            2•3 days ago

            10 years between Dancing Baby and Leeroy Jenkins

    • @CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
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      Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?

    • @Visstix@lemmy.world
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      8•4 days ago

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

      • @robolemmy@lemmy.world
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        26•4 days ago

        Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

        • @Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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          8•4 days 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
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            18•4 days 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
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          I meant leroy, not the baby.

          • @robolemmy@lemmy.world
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            Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

      • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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        16•4 days ago

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

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