All Your Base Are Belong To Us

4 Mar 2001

History as Amit understands it: (please email corrections and new facts to amitp@cs.stanford.edu)

The “all your base are belong to us” phenomenon was underground for some time (back in December[1], it was mostly on gamer message boards), and then went mainstream around February 17, 2001, when Flash video by Jeffrey Ray Roberts[2], including the screen shots of the game set to music, started spreading. It showed up on Fark[3], Memepool[4], Metafilter[5], and other such sites. It spread like wildfire, and then started to decline. A week later, Wired News[6] picked up on it, and it enjoyed a second, larger burst of popularity. However this too is fading. A third burst is expected, since Time Magazine[7] picked it up on March 5.

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Links

  1. [1]: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=24539&pagenumber=1
  2. [2]: http://thefever.com/AYB2.swf
  3. [3]: https://www.fark.com/
  4. [4]: http://www.memepool.com/
  5. [5]: https://www.metafilter.com/
  6. [6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405141209/https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42009,00.html
  7. [7]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010301044518/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,100525,00.html
  8. [8]: http://www.ign.com
  9. [9]: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22all+your%22+%22are+belong+to+us%22+-base+-bases
  10. [10]: https://allyourbase.net/