Oogachaka oogachaka.
Welcome!
Serious Ally McBeal vibes.
You are the only person in the comments so far to mention where this baby “originally came from” is in where it got the widest audience at the time. I didn’t even watch Ally McBeal but I knew at as “the dancing baby from Ally McBeal” forever.
‘Going Viral’ wasn’t a term yet and ‘Meme’ didn’t yet mean what it does today, but as someone who was a nerdy teen in the geocities era, this is the first thing I remember that started on the internet and reached a truly mass audience.
Can anyone think of any earlier example of an internet meme going viral?
Back when meme transmission was “hey, did you get that e-mail? I’ll forward it to you the next time I log on”
Back when your grandma would print out an email chain letter and bring it to your house.
When I got this back in the day the subject line was something like:
Fw: Fw: Re: Fw: Fw: ad infinitum
what is this from like the 1900s?
Yes!