WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere

Yeah, dancing baby was 1996, 9 years before 2005, which is an eternity in internet years. Leeroy is one of the internet's older memes, sure, but way too new to qualify as one of the oldest.

Lol for real... This title made me feel old

Dancing baby was a mere screensaver, no?

Those really were the days.

Before analysts had as much data to take advantage of people's low standards.

There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao

Homestar Runner released a video too!

In a way, this is what I wanted back in the 90s when so few people understood the potential of video games as a serious art form.

Same, but definitely not for competitive multiplayer games. That's the antithesis of the direction gaming should go in.

Instead, we should've moved more towards co-op. Gamers would be happier and healthier, which is why it was decided they should not appreciate it.

I genuinely feel bad for all the people getting suckered into wasting hundreds of hours in a game like fortshit just because it's free and their loser friends got suckered into playing it, too. They have no idea what's happening around them. If they ever realize it, it will likely be too late.

We'll always have the memories from before we knew.

Yeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.

The internet: manufacturing 'spontaneity' for laughs and karma for the past 30years.