Rick roll is hardly early internet.

Source, im old

Yeah, but goatse isn’t very wholesome. Let the kid believe :P

You’re the man now dog?

Dancing baby?

Hell there were viral things before Google existed.

Goatse is the definition of some hole, tub girl on the other hand…

No, but it is hole-some.

Star wars kid, daft punk hands, daft punk girls, ninja kid there are tons of earlier internet memes.

I forgot about daft punk hands. Wow.

Badger badger badger was always fun. So was End of ze world.

And even those are pretty late memes.

I second this comment. I am old too. 🤣

I think all your base is pretty wholesome :3

I mean, TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG!! 🥰

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Even that one wasn’t that early. That was like 2000/2001 or something like that. I remember listening to the mp3 of the song on my drive to college.

Actually it was found that Rick roll was originally inspired by an old Internet video dated back to the late 70s. They did a research on that if you’re interested.

Knew what “a research” was linking to, but I clicked it anyway.

I got an ad before the video, ffs. My day is ruined.

Ope, link preview coming in clutch.

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You spoiled the surprise

Why, when I saw my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!

2007 wasn’t early internet lol.

Early internet’s most famous meme was probably either hamster dance or dancing baby. All Your Base wasn’t long after.

That toaster cat shitting rainbows!

Edit or the beep beep frog with the schlong

Edit edit: guess that last one was a whole video…not a meme

Re: peanut butter jelly time - my 8 year old picked it up somewhere along the way and is one of his favorite songs now.

Between All Your Base Are Belong To Us and Peanut Butter Jelly Time, you guys are giving me a trip down memory lane! Or down CanIHazCheezburger and Shoop Da Whoops (although those are more recent, I believe)

Nyan Cat

That’s quite recent still tho

See the edit edit edit edit…

I mean there were even fax machine “memes”. Checkout Faxlore if you weren’t around at the time.

Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.

THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES

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even this is pretty late-stage flash content. We must go deeper.

I miss the days of looping flash videos. The Badger Song, The Llama Song, Magical Trevor, etc. Those defined my childhood.

Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers mushroom mushroom

Here’s a llama, there’s a llama and another little llama

For sure dancing baby. Was shared as an attachment on emails even before YouTube was a thing

Nuhuh.

True early internet meme was pics from Madonna’s coffee table book. Iykyk.

Ron Livingston playing piano as a cat.

He was imitating this video which went viral before his.

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Like many other commenters, I wouldn’t consider rickrolling to be “early internet.” First of all it’s a mutation of the duckroll meme, and dates as late as 2007. Trogdor predates rickrolling by 5 years.

But, I do have to say, I appreciate the rickroll as the internet’s official prank. Tricking someone into watching a slightly cheesy but inoffensive music video to an actually pretty good song about being a faithful lover is pretty okay.

It’s better than when a link could bring you to meatspin, lemon party, or Goatse

Don’t forget tubgirl!

Two girls one cup. That would be a horrible prank.

“HEY EVERYBODY I’M LOOKING AT GAY PORN.”

Youtube isn’t the early internet friend.

I still remember the first time someone told me about YouTube. I thought they were saying U2, the bad, and was really confused.

Fuck I’m old.

Going off the comments, did we all just get trolled hard?

An early meme in a more modern format is this one.

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