25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

[themnwolf@furry.engineer]

@jwz You know what you doing. Take off every 'Zig.'

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jwz one time at work there was a form I really didn't want people printing (fuck printing) so I encoded that in white type on a white background on the web page: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

On screen, invisible, but those bloated LaserJet 4si would turn it to regular black type.

People lost their shit. Some called me up "have we been haaaaacked??"

I would just say, "you printed the form, didn't you?"

[mark@mastodon.fixermark.com]

@jwz It is... hard, to think back far enough to really remember the emotional tone of being hit with this by someone.

"You haven't seen AYBABTU?"

"What's an AYBABTU?"

... and then this happened.

It felt... weird. And a little tedious. Like the joke is clear at way before the halfway point.

And yet... It also felt, I dunno... Significant? That one person could do this for like no money on the stuff they had rigged together?

I think that was the most important part. The "Check out what one person can do" part.

(... given, of course, that the one person hadn't actually created all the art assets they pulled from. A fact that would also prove significant in the future...)

[funkybob@chaos.social]

@jwz What I love about this is it's from the time before generative AI ... so all of that work is photoshop, not photoslop.

[javensbukan@mstdn.ca]

@jwz Somebody set us up the bomb!!

Also brb getting my walker now.

[etard_the_lifecaster@mastodon.online]

@jwz
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" WoW Now that takes me back to the good old days of the Net.
Long before MySpace or Facebook, back in a time where it was IRC Chat & Internet Forums like phpBB or vBulletin.
Good Exploits sure lasted way longer back then.
Thanks for the flashback to old times.

#AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@jwz

I was working as a network security engineer at a major data center provider (pre-cloud, people rented space in data centers and bought servers to put in them! Barbaric, I know).

Anyway I sat one cubical over from the team that did spam monitoring.

Someone in IRC said “all your base are belong to us.”

I mused out loud as to what that could mean and a lady from the spam team overheard me and yelled loudly “OH GOD NOT YOU TOO”

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@rk @jwz we were in our final year of highschool, and somebody used a math lab computers to play the SWF. we watched something like three times in succession.

with hindsight, it may have been the moment we decided SWF wasn't all bad as a format.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@jwz LUVIT you brilliant bastard. well done.

[melissawm@pynews.com.br]

@jwz @autobrain efemérides

[biogeo@mefi.social]

@jwz This animation was published closer to the founding of Apple Computer than to today.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@jwz wat you say

[rperezrosario@mastodon.social]

@jwz "There is no escape, make your time."

[dec23k@mastodon.ie]

@ireneista @rk @jwz
The peak of SWF for me was Happy Tree Friends.
I downloaded all the Flash files I could, and then I bought the DVDs.

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@jwz all your base can rent a car

[michaelaltfield@mastodon.social]

@jwz for those of us that can't use YouTube

Sepia Search

A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft

Sepia Search (sepiasearch.org)

#PeerTube #AllYourBase

[gatrnerd@blimps.xyz]

@jwz wait this meme is from 2001?????? wild

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

@jwz What a time to be alive. I had forgotten how many already-old memes were jammed into this meme when it was brand new-ish. Thanks for this.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@jessamyn @jwz and I was forced to re-remember that The Matrix is almost 27 years old

[bangskij@climatejustice.social]

@jwz first and only meme I saw in real life before I saw it on the internet. It was scrolling on a LED sign in an Amsterdam coffeeshop.