The history of the Internet's first viral video

My vote goes to the exploding whale. Gwar weren’t far behind.

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imma go through some old image cd-roms I think I have older stuff, but I know I have this too so that will be interesting to see

h/t @cleveremi:

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Man, I remember downloading binary files from a usenet group and manually splicing them together in a text editor in order to see the exploding whale.

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Wife Natasha and I are from Trenton

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Some precision would be nice.

Troops was gumming the corporate pipes in the summer of 1997.

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I came here to espouse the same hypothesis!

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I was only remembering the donkey in the field when the man’s
trousers do a whoops last week :slight_smile:

Don’t spoil the illusion, comrade.

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De da de da de da doe doe, da da de da de de doe

Dude, they had cybernetics in the eighties, according to metal gear solid 5…

back in the seventies, “cybernetics” meant something different.

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I think the dancing baby was before that by as least a year

Not the first one out, but the first I remember passing around and seeing referenced everywhere, online and IRL:

And another one from the good ole days:

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The best part about the Hamster Dance song is seeing people’s reactions when they find out it’s the opening song from Disney’s Robin Hood.

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