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[Kite]

I used to love stick figure fights.

 

[Tarkus]

I always thought that 'S' was a badly recreated Suzuki logo.

This is what I've always thought it was

 

[CazTGG]

The song was actually a big part of the Meme, IIRC. I was a member on the Gaming-Age forums when this meme exploded and it was because of threads/ posters linking to the original flash file that this derived from. This video is what pushed AYBBTU into the mainstream internet.

Not arguing that it didn't help launch it or Zero Wing into internet infamy, just that the meme itself preceded the song with several images of it on the internet and that being the earliest exposure to said meme coming from.

 

[HotHamBoy]

I used to love stick figure fights.

Me too!!

I used make a bunch of stuff in MS Paint, including various stick figure animations. Mine were never as good as this one.

Can anyone else post some great old-school stick fighting gifs?

 

[Bravoexo]

The "I Love You" virus.

 

[TAJ]

I had the Where's The Beef? board game.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

All your base are belong to us.

Loved it then, love it now.

 

[MrCunningham]

Not arguing that it didn't help launch it or Zero Wing into internet infamy, just that the meme itself preceded the song with several images of it on the internet and that being the earliest exposure to said meme coming from.

Yeah indeed.

And speaking of old flash videos... The Demented Cartoon Movie was one of the oldest ones that I can think of that made me laugh.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Mr. T vs. Everything

The one I remember is Mr. T vs. Slayers. Now that I've actually watched Slayers, time to read it again. EDIT: I remember that back in the day, it actually took a pretty long time for each page to load, making the short pages a real pain for me. Anyway, why does the author insist that Lina's enemies keep coming back to life? It was literally just Rezo once, right? And this is years before Evolution-R came out.

Anyway, for me, it has to be All Your Base and O RLY for Internet-wide memes. I actually never encountered the Dancing Baby outside of people complaining about it years later, oddly enough. Other notable ones are Numa Numa and Moskau.

 

[Easy_D]

We used to draw this on all kinds of things (back in the 80s) and I don't think any of us knew what it actually was.

The 80s?! I thought this was a 90s thing

 

[Dali]

Probably the one I found the funniest when first introduced to it was "leeroooooooooooy Jenkins!" The girl saying "goddammit Leroy" as though he's done it so much she's just resigned to having it happen from time to time had me in tears.

Never played Wow a moment of my life.

 

[13ruce]

I used to love stick figure fights.

Ah ofcourse i forgot about those the roflcopter and stick figures. In middle school we had a program on the computer named pivot and me and my friends made the most crazy stuff lol. From stick figures jerking off or doing it together to epic super saiyan fights, it was hilarious.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Even now I'm impressed by the stick figure fights and how good it looks with (or more likely, because of) the simple art style.

 

[tanooki27]

probably the Budweiser frogs.

 

[A Link to the Past]

Numa Numa I'd have to say. There are memes before that, like LUEshi, but Numa Numa is the first time I thought "that's a meme" - as far as I recall anyway. If I'm misremembering, Orly Owl is definitely the first.

 

[Guess Who]

Probably All Your Base.

 

[sphinx]

exactly what year or how old is O rly Owl?

I remember by the time I was lurking on GAF (2004-2005) it being used a lot.

 

[Kite]

Me too!!

I used make a bunch of stuff in MS Paint, including various stick figure animations. Mine were never as good as this one.

Can anyone else post some great old-school stick fighting gifs?

I'm sure plenty of people made these, but the one I remember is Xiao Xiao, here is 28 min of his stuff.

 

[QuantumSquid]

stick figure fights must not be a meme because over a decade later, they're still fucking sweet

 

[AlStrong]

zombo.com

 

[Tonedeff]

Dancing baby and Xiao Xiao are the first I remember if they count. I almost wanted to be an animator to learn how to do those stick figure fights myslef when I was younger

 

[FStop7]

Dancing baby
Ate my balls
All Your Base

 

[Shadowheart]

 

[Azzanadra]

Didn't know "all your base" was that old... the first meme I identified consciously as being a "meme" was the troll face and the associated phrase, "you mad bro?".

 

[MonorailCat]

Good old Poker times. Brags, beats and variance.

 

[Like the hat?]

Peanut butter jelly time or the dancing baby
Edit man those stick figure fights bring me back

 

[PillarEN]

That was like a non-internet meme. Cool.

I guess the dancing 3d baby is what I remember as the first thing that seemed to go viral enough to become a meme.

 

[sanstesy]

They should put the most dank memes on the Voyager Golden Record to be honest. The information on that thing at present doesn't reflect our race in a good light anymore.

 

[AlexMogil]

 

[Spenny]

Yep. Killroy is the oldest meme I've personally witnessed.

 

[Muffdraul]

If we're talking specifically internet, the first one I remember was probably the "I KISS YOU!" guy. 1995 or '96.

If we're talking about meme-ish things in general, I guess the first one I remember seeing everywhere was "Have A Nice Day" with the yellow happy face.

 

[MrCunningham]

Ninja Burger from 1999: http://ninjaburger.com/
Real Ultimate Power from 2002: http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm

 

[Erekiddo]

I dug deep for this one. Site is still alive, too.
http://www.emotioneric.com/

 

[Jeremy]

Alt+F4.

 

[gaugebozo]

 

[ThatStupidLion]

A/S/L?

 

[umop_3pisdn]

Posting on forums in the early 2000s this is the first image macro I can remember.

 

[War Eagle]

TROGDOR

 

[xZoneHunter]

Not as old as others, but damn, can't believe this is already 5 years old. Still cracks me up.

 

[Daingurse]

All your base are belong to us, I think?

 

[Krowley]

Probably "All your base are belong to us"

Unless I'm forgetting something else.

 

[Princess Viola]

The Game

Spoiler

You just lost it

 

[RustyNails]

uhh...pedobear?

 

[JC Sera]

Hamster Dance
Badger Badger Badger
this asshole:

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Probably the "all your bases are belong to us" meme.

Same. Though I didn't know what a meme was then to know that is what I was seeing all the damn time.

 

[Crayolan]

 

[Frankenstrat]

 

[Stinkles]

The earliest meme I can remember finding funny was a Do a Barrel Roll YTMND.

What about YTMND (you're the man now dog)

And all your base?

 

[impirius]

"_____ ate my balls" is the first one I remember that seemed to spread solely by force of weirdness

 

[The Faceless Master]

trout slaps or me am brazil?