Remember the days when a dancing baby could captivate the entire internet? Or when a simple phrase like "All your base are belong to us" would leave us in stitches? Welcome to the golden age of memes, where the internet was a wild west of creativity, and the simplest of ideas could become overnight sensations.
Memes can continue living only if people are sharing them. Memes are ideas, images, trends, or pieces of information that spread through one's culture, be they iconic garments to catchphrases, cat emojis, and gifs online.
"All your base are belong to us" is a catchphrase that originated all the way in 1992. However, even if it is one of the world's first memes, how come no one is using it now?
Brace yourself, millennials, we are getting old. The evidence is right here on the 20th, yes, TWENTIETH anniversary of the “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” video. Yes, the one we all waited minutes to load on our desktop computers with dial-up and 56k modems and laughed at in the early days of the wired world.
It was an internet meme before we even knew the word “meme” (or thought it was pronounced mee-mee”). Today internet fads and memes come and go within hours, but it’s worth remembering just how big “All Your Base” was.
But first … let us remember.