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minus-square@thallamabondlink12•9 hours agoYou mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes? A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
minus-square@gruelinkEnglish4•edit-23 hours agoSigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture. This is a “'90s Rickroll:” (According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
minus-square@thallamabondlink2•2 hours agohttps://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
minus-square@Raiderkevlink10•8 hours agoTbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
minus-square@thallamabondlink5•6 hours agoAnd that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
minus-square@FauxLivinglink6•9 hours agoNo, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc Google them at your own risk
minus-square@thallamabondlink12•8 hours agoNo, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 hours agoImagine being the historian researching these for dates…
minus-square@gruelinkEnglish3•3 hours agoKnowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time. Not even joking about that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•8 hours agoExcuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.
You mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes?
A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
Sigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture.
This is a “'90s Rickroll:”
(According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
Tbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
And that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
No, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc
Google them at your own risk
No, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
Imagine being the historian researching these for dates…
Knowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time.
Not even joking about that.
Wasn’t it a duck roll back then?
Nobody likes a pedant
Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.