of course they were, but i wouldn't consider 1337 speak an internet meme because it predated the current form of the internet we know. people were using 1337 speak when you had to dial into a BBS.
acheron
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Can't get to all of the links, but did any of them mention the Internet Coffee Pot yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
BassBomb
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1998 was hampster dance
dancing baby was 1996
are these memes or just viral videos/gifs, and whats the difference between meme and viral media
AstroManLuca
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Another really early one was Mr. T Ate My Balls. Also 1996. I remember this one from when I was in junior high.
Even that I wouldn't consider the first internet meme though. I think memes have existed probably as long as people have been sending messages to each other over the internet, it's just that they weren't well known before the mid 90s when everyone started getting internet access. There were probably a great number of memes or inside jokes that existed in the 70s and 80s (or even earlier) that died off before any large number of people saw them.
EDIT: Also a lot of memes transitioned to the internet over time. What used to be chain letters migrated to e-mail. Remember that e-mail about an expensive cookie recipe? Yeah. Snopes.com is a good place to track old chain letters (apparently that story has been around since the 40s in various forms).
Even that I wouldn't consider the first internet meme though. I think memes have existed probably as long as people have been sending messages to each other over the internet, it's just that they weren't well known before the mid 90s when everyone started getting internet access. There were probably a great number of memes or inside jokes that existed in the 70s and 80s (or even earlier) that died off before any large number of people saw them.
EDIT: Also a lot of memes transitioned to the internet over time. What used to be chain letters migrated to e-mail. Remember that e-mail about an expensive cookie recipe? Yeah. Snopes.com is a good place to track old chain letters (apparently that story has been around since the 40s in various forms).
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It was definitely Mr. T Ate My Balls, followed up by the successful sequel Chewbacca Ate My Balls
moshquerade
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I was going to say Hamster Dance too.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3035231
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hahaha, that's great. The big timeline did show that one.
One of the dorms in my school had something like that... except it showed the occupancy status of all bathrooms (and later laundry machine usage) in the building. And by 'showed', I do not mean with a webcam.
QueBert
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Use to chat with Iconclast on IRC, don't remember who posted that ad, but he was semi famous for a minute after that. While I never found out I'm pretty sure due to this he actually got laid LOL. With that pic it was like he was begging somebody to make that ebay auction.
With that said slapping people with a large trout was definitely the first internet meme, it even predates the WWW. I was doing it on EFnet in 1993
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waggy
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lol yeah the trout shit got annoying. got to the point any channels i got into made it a instant permanent ban LOL
goatse went by few diffrent names. i remember it as Stinger during my time on Efnet
That shit was hilarious I remember when it was posted too. I don't agree with the slapping of the large trout with the same way I don't agree with 1337 speak. That was a different time and a vastly different internet.
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guyver01
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it was mentioned 22 posts above yours.
check post 22.
i guess this makes the first internet meme.. REPOST!
silverpig
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I came in here to post it too and was also surprised it took this long to get mentioned. IIRC it was 1999.
edit: apparently it was 2001... *shrug*
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hello my future girlfriend? asianprince? animated gifs on geocities pages? dunno, everything from back then gets lumped together in my brain.
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it was actually called 3L1T3..
I remember some of my friends on AOL making a program that said that font style was elite.
And i believe they took that term off mIRC.
I think tho it blew up because of pagers when we did pager code like
43110 for hello.... but alpha numerics and text messengers killed 3L1T3 in general.
But i dont think anything preceeds
"LOL" and "ROFL"
I know LOL has been around VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME.
<-- guilty of being an mIRC user a long time ago.. Botwars and trying to take over channels was fun.. well not unless it was you being attacked.
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