Originally published at: For great justice: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" is 20 years old this week | Boing Boing
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Zero Wing Rhapsody was of the first videos I ever downloaded to keep. I still can’t get over the mechanic’s squint on “Someone set up us the bomb.”
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Twenty years! WTF?
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Puts a whole new spin on “make your time”, doesn’t it?
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I should have listened to that 20 years ago! Have I actually made my time? I don’t know…
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I know reference was made to prior appearances of this meme, but I really think it was more widespread than the article represents…I have a friend that I haven’t seen or heard from since the '90s for whom this was a favourite expression.
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Here is an HD copy of that song.
I think this was a sequel to that song done by the same person/group. I actually really like it.
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Oh good. It’s time for another episode of Things that make me feel old.
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some guys at work and I were throwing a party I was going to Dj back then and we promoted it with flyers that said “all your bass are belong to us” with little icons we found on the Kinko’s copyshop computer of bass bins on either side.
the party was a bust, unfortunately.
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Reused many times.
This, the Orly owls, and the laughing colonial made up my early Fark days.
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The Laziest Men on Mars - fun fact, Wikipedia says only one member of the techno trio has ever been publicly identified.
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As always, there’s an appropriate XKCD. 
xkcd: All Your Base
Fun tip: Hover over the webcomic for the alt-text easter egg, written 14 years ago. 
286: All Your Base - explain xkcd
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Fun fact, Fark is what brought me here.
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I was also on Fark.
Robert A Wilson and Timothy Leary brought me here. I think Wilson had written something for the boingboing zine, but that was before my time.
Do you remember future shock? I have Future Depression, the future just depresses me. Why is my techno-utopia still 20 years away?
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This is very much the case, but prior to 2000’s the meme was just about the poor/funny translation. It wasn’t until late into 2000 that The Laziest Men on Mars did their song and an animation was made for it that the meme took it’s most widely remembered form. There’s also a good chance that while as the article states the animation appeared on Newgrounds on February 16, 2001 that some form of it or the song by itself was first floating around the SomethingAwful.com forums.
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I also associate this expression with the old Japanese computer game “AE” (After Earth) for some reason. Not the 2010 ish version, this one was Apple ][ and/or Commodore Amiga. Maybe just because I played that game with my friend who used the expression.
Yes. This future is not what we were promised…
I hate to break it to you, but it probably doesn’t exist… We’re really never going to make that next improvement in our societies if we don’t address our social and cultural problems too. There just is no technology that’s going to be a silver bullet. It’s really just putting in the hard work and making good, humane use of the technologies we do develop. Sadly, historically, we suck at that, many times.
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