• yenahmik@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 hours ago

    Good God, this takes me back to middle school when we were obsessed with this song/chant/animation (what even was it?)

  • cute_noker@feddit.dk
    5·
    1 day ago

    the way things are going the “Nigger stole my bike” might even do a comeback

    Edit: but in all honesty it is actually hard to imagine that it was a thing once

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          24 hours ago

          2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.

          • Wren@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            24 hours ago

            But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.

            Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.

            • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              24 hours ago

              Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!

              Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.

    • Wren@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.

        • Wren@lemmy.worldOP
          5·
          2 days ago

          And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.

          I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.

          • sunflowercowboy@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.

            Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!

            Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.

            And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      2·
      2 days ago

      How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven’t kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.

      • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        He was doing let’s plays last night saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.

  • slappypantsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      38·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, but were you chronically online in 2002? Ie exposed to the memes of the time.

      Nowadays all sorts of normies fill the internet. Internet used to be explicitly for “nerds”.

      I remember when nornies didn’t even know how to.

      And now we’ve gone around again and the youngest generations have really poor PC skills because they just do everything on their phone.

      Do you remember the dancing baby? That was a few years earlier than Badgerbadgerbadger.com but it was more mainstream, being like in Ally Mcbeal etc.

      • slappypantsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        I was chronically online back then! Haha I mean, not chronically necessarily, but I got super into el interneto around 1995 and then waxing and waning every now and again. 2002 I was a journalist…yep chronically online for sure!

        Anyway, thanks for linking that. I realized that I just completely forgot about anything other than the “badger badger badger” line. It’s been so long and I’m old. :)

      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        That’s true enough, I guess we were formed & forged out of necessity. If you wanted to surf web well, you had to figure all kinds of shit out. If you wanted to pirate, same deal. Watch porn? Better delete that web history, but also make it look believable.

        It was baked into our brains at a young, impressionable age. And we absorbed it all.

        Now these kids don’t seem to know how to do shit. Frustrating. They should be tech savvy.

        • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          I know parents who don’t own PCs. Just phones. A bunch of working class kids are without access to a PC. Of course they’re going to be worse at it than we were. How are they supposed to learn?

          It’s not like we did it because we wanted to show off our useful skills on the job market, lol.

      • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
        10·
        2 days ago

        My mom used to call the house from work at a random time between when my brother and I got home from school and when she left work. If she got a busy signal, she would wait about 15 minutes to half an hour and call back. If she got a busy signal a second time she would assume one of us was on the Internet and we would get in trouble when she got home.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          Oh that’s pretty smart of mom.

          I’m getting nostalgic over thinking about the sound of the modem and the emotions that went with it.

        • gibmiser@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the word f*ggot was used constantly.

          Like, constantly.

          • JollyBrancher @lemm.ee
            2·
            1 day ago

            Eddie Murphy’s one earlier standup special (Raw?) drops it a bunch. I meannn even in the later oughts the one big joke in The Hangover was “paging Dr. Faggot!!!” Straight up trailer material to boot, if I’m not mistaken. More like 80s-early 2000s. Most people learned over time to change for the better socially, for a bit at least.

            • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              For me, I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I (thought I) didn’t know a single gay person personally. So many people were in the closet back then.

              I didn’t really say fag much but for us kids, gay meant lame. “That’s gay” - I would hear or say it many times a day. It didn’t even mean homosexual, although once I got older I could see how it was harmful. Once people I knew came out and I knew gay adults I made the conscious decision to stop saying it.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, but back then the internet wasn’t as obiquitous as it is now, so something being online didn’t necessarily mean that you’d have seen it, whereas now if something is a hit you’ll see it in a matter of hours, really.

          Like I probably did see the Hampster dance in the 90’s possibly, but like the computer in the library wasn’t one you could really use the speakers on, and I think it took until like 99-00 for dad to get a computer with an Internet connection. No it couldn’t have been that late I was looking up Zelda faqs when playing Ocarina of Time and that was a few years earlier, as N64 came out in 1996. OOT came out in 98 okay.

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    98·
    3 days ago

    In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.

    “I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup…those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more”

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    41·
    2 days ago

    Dunno maybe this was localized but

    Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.

    It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D

    It still freaking slaps. :D

    It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary’s silly dance and lip sync to the “numa numa” song was proliferating everywhere.

    I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don’t miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days…

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        5·
        2 days ago

        That’s beautiful. It’s looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D

    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 days ago

      Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect…

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
        8·
        2 days ago

        After all these years I still don’t understand if what he did was amoral-- the “human trafficking” listed on the page was to smuggle people into the US, but that’s as much information as I can find. If he put those people into nefarious circumstances that’s one thing, but if he basically acted as a conduit to get people into the US who otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity it’s a different matter entirely.

        I’d love some clarification on the issue.

        • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          From what I can find, he took money from some people to get them into Canada and the US illegally then did nothing, then he took 2 groups into the US as his tour dancers so they could enter the US illegally.

          He’s no sex trafficker as far as I can see, but taking money from people trying to get out of their country then not doing it is a cunt act, even if they were gonna be going into the us illegally.