Join Our Newsletter
  • Visit Our Store
  • Come Write for J-List!
J-List Blog
Visit J-List - Your Favorite Online Shop and Friend in Japan
  • Featured
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Product Reports
  • Your Friend in Japan
No Result
View All Result
J-List Blog
  • Featured
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Product Reports
  • Your Friend in Japan
No Result
View All Result
J-List Blog
No Result
View All Result

All Your Internet Memes Are Belong To Us

Peter Payne by Peter Payne
13 years ago
in Your Friend in Japan

Tuesday is an auspicious day for the Web: the 10th anniversary of the “All Your Base are Belong To Us” video that spread like wildfire across the Interwebs a decade ago. (The meme existed before this point, but Feb. 15, 2001 is the day the infamous Flash video was released, marking its emergence as a global explosion of weirdness culminating in a call from your Mom asking what “All Your Base” meant.) A line of especially bad English from the 1989 game Zero Wing released for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis console, the phrase was sampled and put to music, and was turned into an Internet phenomenon by various sites including the Something Awful forums. It was most people’s first introduction to the now-familiar concept of the “Internet meme,” which describes an image, video, joke or other concept that spreads quickly through the frictionless tubes of the Internet. Now these memes are a daily occurrence, from Giga Pudding to Popin’ Cooking DIY Sushi Candy to spinning leeks and jokes about numbers being “over 9000,” and it’s hard to remember that there was once a simpler time when pictures of cats did not rule our world.

Feb. 15 is the 10th anniversary of “All Your Base.”

Tags: foodmemesSega

More Posts Like This

Bokuben Depressed Manga Panel
Your Friend in Japan

Describe Yourself Through Manga Panels!

by Peter Payne
2 years ago

One reason Japanese manga has become popular all over the world is that the characters and jokes are so relatable,...

Bokuben We Never Learn Emotional State
Your Friend in Japan

Show Us Your Current Emotional State with Anime!

by Peter Payne
2 years ago

One reason we all enjoy anime is that it’s features characters in situations we can relate to and identify with....

15 Anime That Accelerated Quickly

16 Times When Anime Escalated Quickly!

2 years ago
No Meme Culture In Japan

No Meme Culture in Japan? Three Things Japan’s Internet Lacks

2 years ago
The End Of Takoya Article

Food in Anime, and the End of Takoyaki?

5 years ago
Art by Pomu https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2302136

What is Christmas in Japan?

6 years ago
Next Post
Idolmv

Japan, Chocolate and Obligation

Trending Today

Neko Pako Fuck Paradise
Featured

J-List’s Top 11 Hentai Cosplay JAV Works

3 years ago
Summer Heat Anime Fan Service
Your Friend in Japan

Summer Heat! What Were the Best Fan Service Moments This Season?

4 days ago
My Tiny Senpai Episode 10 Shiori Red Bikini
Featured

My Tiny Senpai, Ep 10: Smol Contest for Big Dreams

11 hours ago
Anime Maids May10 2023 3
Featured

Anime Oni Girls Who Might Let You Grab Their Horns

5 days ago
Get the Newest Figures from J-List - Your Favorite Online Shop and Friend in Japan
Summer Heat Anime Fan Service
Your Friend in Japan

Summer Heat! What Were the Best Fan Service Moments This Season?

by Peter Payne
September 17, 2023

Goblin Slayer II: Fall Premiere with New Studio

Blue Exorcist Returns With Shimane Illuminati Saga

16bit Sensation, Heir to World God Only Knows, to Air

Villainess Level 99 Dark Otome Isekai Life

TenPuru, Ep 11: Maid Service Means Serve the Maid?

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Discord
  • YouTube

© J-LIST. All trademarks, characters and images are property of their respective owners.

No Result
View All Result
  • Featured
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Product Reports
  • Your Friend in Japan

© J-LIST. All trademarks, characters and images are property of their respective owners.