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the years for norris facts and rickroll are correct, but all your base was a meme by 2000 and Leeroy Jenkins happened in 2005.
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
I started in the fall of 99 and that spring semester it was evertwhere. It was like, 6-7 levels for a while
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