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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 71 points 6 days ago (8 children)

the years for norris facts and rickroll are correct, but all your base was a meme by 2000 and Leeroy Jenkins happened in 2005.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yup. When I entered college in computer science in 2001, there was an all your base belong to us joke in it, which means it was at least a year old

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

I started in the fall of 99 and that spring semester it was evertwhere. It was like, 6-7 levels for a while

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Golden age of internet

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