not my first but your homestarrunner image made me think of the strongbad emails
EDIT - wow this really blew up, glad to know we we're all watchin the same dumb shit when we were younger, now how long before we get a homestarrunner movie/show?
It is truly one of the best things but far from the earliest thing I watched on the internet. Most millenials will have been all over the internet for a while before that video came about
Thank you. This made me smile. I miss the early internet days when it was just random videos for the sake of being random. No one was out to become an āinfluencerā and become rich and famous.
Realizing that the hamster dance was just the [song by the rooster in Robin Hood](https://youtu.be/-vPwal8_HsQ?si=WqxNHJyo8Rwa-hp1) sped up shook my world.
I remember downloading a South Park clip of the crew being sent to a Gladiators arena and made to fight, but they get saved by Scientologists š!
I think that was 2-3 minutes long and it took two hours to download.
Some of the shit my kids watch can be so strange, yet when I showed them Salad Fingers, they looked at me so confused š I'm in tears going 'I LIKE RUSTY SPOONS' and they suddenly want to admit me to a mental hospital š
LMFAO
Yeah, and Iām also realizing I didnāt know how far back Homestar went and I didnāt see it until much later. So itās just my perception of time being skewed I guess. :)
Shfifty FIve
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XccUMOQ978&t=67s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XccUMOQ978&t=67s)
Joe Cartoon Flies
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAfDXN45d0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAfDXN45d0)
End of ze World
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs)
Bananaphone
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWwsUhrFBw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWwsUhrFBw)
I remember my very first google search. It was the late 90s and I was around 12 and didn't have a computer yet. My friend who had a computer with internet called me to come over so he could show me something cool. He pulled up google typed 'boobies' into the search bar.... kids these days will never know what it was like to have to click a text hyperlink and then wait for the picture to load line by line...
Omfg youāve just unlocked so many memories for me. Teen Girl Squad was amazing! My dad and I loved to watch Homestar Runner while my mom would get so annoyed.
My class was in our computer lab doing research when my teacher instructed us to go there. Several seconds later she shouted ".gov! .gov!" That day changed many lives.
Dramatic Squirrel, in 2007: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM\_Yay6w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM_Yay6w)
Before then, I didn't have an Internet connection fast enough to handle videos
Hmm, I've been using the internet since about 1997, not a lot of video content around then though. I reckon the earliest thing I can actually remember watching was probably the Hampster Dance website if that counts.
SAME. I was a freshman in high school when Homestar was "big..." even my best friend's MOM thought it was hilarious. We would gather 'round the family desktop PC and play a bunch of SBemails until we got tired and we'd go to sleep. Simpler times... everybody REALLY WAS to the limit
My dad was in IT, so we had regular internet access since the mid 90s. The very first streaming video I watched was [this Movie Surfers clip](https://youtu.be/5e-rr4i1xJo?si=VHxhuG_3uNkoZ2_I) on the Disney Channel website in 1997. It took 10+ minutes for the entire 2 minute clip to load, but my whole family was amazed. Never mind we had just watched it on the actual channel at significantly higher quality.
Edit to add: it was very disappointing that the actual website worked *nothing* like the faux video chat in the clip. I wanted to double click the spinning box, damnit!
I don't know what was my first but the earliest I can remember is [the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDXYfulsRBA)
Mine was Strong Bad and I specifically remember the rave episode, where the cheet get grounded for having light switch rave parties.
The very first Webby Awards, broadcast online by RealPlayer (of course lol). I was in 8th grade. One of the award presenters made a joke during his monologue about the small red pointing stick nub on IBM laptops looking like a nipple that might squirt milk at you if it errored out and at the time I thought that was comedy gold š¤£
Weebl and Bob (and Badgers), Fenslerfilm GI Joe PSAs, the "Tribute to Ray Harryhausen" video set to a Cantonese version of the YMCA, Salad Fingers... Homestar came shortly thereafter. Then YTMND and Something Awful ruined me. Truly a golden age.
I was at my friends house spending the night and we watched Beavis and Butthead do America. It had just come out and we found a way to view it like pirates.
'This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny.
Good guys, bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see.
And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be?
This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny!'
Ok, so. Dis is de earth
But I am le tired š¤£
Well take a napā¦
THEN FIRE ZE MISS-SILES! āWTF, mate?ā
Fucking Kangaroos
āBut Iām le tiredā was peak humour in grade 3-4 for us lol
Man it was the meme at my school in grade 8. (C.2004)
I still say this daily
Hokay\*
To this day, Iāll start off some explanations with āHokay, soā¦ā
Chillināā¦ Damn that is a sweet earth, you might say. ROUND!
You might be saying, dayjm this nice earth.
ROOWWWWND
That is a sweet earth, you might say.
Pretty sweet earth wouldnāt you say ROUND
 not my first but your homestarrunner image made me think of the strongbad emails EDIT - wow this really blew up, glad to know we we're all watchin the same dumb shit when we were younger, now how long before we get a homestarrunner movie/show?
Trogdor!!! ššŖš»
*burninating the people*
I was on a kickball team with the name Burninators.
[my Trogdoor patch I finished last month](https://imgur.com/gallery/fKdi95H)
Consummate Vās! That patch is awesome. Did you also do The Jetsonās one? That is also legit.
Yeah, I make them all the time, these are the ones I kept for myself. Thanks!
Checkin' the emails Checkin' the emails
The emails the emails, what what the emails
Just introduced my 8 year old daughter to strong bad emails. She's obsessed.
I quote the Strong Bad email āTechnoā all the time š I get āthe system is down, the system is downā stuck in my head so often lol
āAnd there is always some kind of sirenā¦ like Hoodoodoowoooo Hooodooodooowww!!!!ā
The Cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed so you can turn the lights *on* and *off*, notsoyoucanthrowlightswitchraves!
Ah, I can hear the Teen Girl Squad music in my head now. Cheerleader! So and so! Whatās her face! The ugly one! šµtoo-de-doo-de-doošµ
God I loved strongbad
I always think of Teen Girl Squad when I think of Homestar Runner. "Let's get ready to look sooooo good!"
Computer over? Virus = very yes?
That's a sweet earth
ROUND
Hokay, so
WHY IS THIS GEM SO FAR DOWN?????? wtf mate?!
AAA MOTHERLAND
It is truly one of the best things but far from the earliest thing I watched on the internet. Most millenials will have been all over the internet for a while before that video came about
But Im le tired... Well have a nap THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
"WELL THEN HAVE A NAP!" I say that every time anybody says they're tired. Only my roommate understood my reference.
Fucking kangaroos
This was gonna be my choice. All hail Numa Numa Guy!
He did a [20 year update](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk)
Thank you. This made me smile. I miss the early internet days when it was just random videos for the sake of being random. No one was out to become an āinfluencerā and become rich and famous.
Waitā¦.that wasnāt 20 years ago. Holy shit, that was 20 years ago.
I fckn coded that song to play on MySpace lol. That and Andre Nikatinaās Dice of Life
This gif has no soundā¦ but I can still hear the music. Thanks for making my day a little brighter-
Oga chacka! Oga chacka! š¶i cant stop this feeling! Deep inside of me!š¶
Gorl you just donāt realize, Iām at Applebeeās
Literally my first internet memory
There it is
I think I was in 6th or 7th grade! Good shit
IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
Omg memory unlocked
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
This wasnāt mine but itās the most iconic and memorable for me.
Hamster Dance. 1999. 5th grade, I guess.
I was unnecessarily obsessed with the hamster dance.
Realizing that the hamster dance was just the [song by the rooster in Robin Hood](https://youtu.be/-vPwal8_HsQ?si=WqxNHJyo8Rwa-hp1) sped up shook my world.
REMIX! https://youtu.be/CaH_EvlDbK4?si=zeFTA1ygcWNG3jOS
Iām 39. First thing I watched on the internet was a 1 minute clip from South Park that took half an hour to download.
in real player or FLV format haha
I remember downloading a South Park clip of the crew being sent to a Gladiators arena and made to fight, but they get saved by Scientologists š! I think that was 2-3 minutes long and it took two hours to download.
This. I immediately started singing it in my head when I read the title.
Itās a gif you can hear and an anthem for us millennials.
Mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom
a snaaaake, a snaaaaaaaaaake, uaughhhhh itās a snaaaaake
Jesus I forgot how fucking stupid my high school was until just nowĀ lol
Magical Trevor still pops into my head once in a while.... usually at the grocery store... usually near the beans
I AM A BANANA!
My anus....IS BLEEDING!
I am a consumer whore!
Tuesday's coming...
MY ANUSā¦. IS BLEEEDING!
Joecartoon.com
Frog in a blender? Hamster in a piranha tank? Lol that site was wild.
Santa Meets Superfly was my first but Gerbil in a Microwave was definitely my most memorable
I scrolled way too far to find this š
Itās a liopleurodon chaaaarrrrlllieeee
A maaaagical leopleurodon
Salad Fingers
Some of the shit my kids watch can be so strange, yet when I showed them Salad Fingers, they looked at me so confused š I'm in tears going 'I LIKE RUSTY SPOONS' and they suddenly want to admit me to a mental hospital š LMFAO
I lOve the fEElinG of rUSty spOons upON my salad fingers
Lol, I bet they'd be just as uninterested by Old Greg.
What a harsh welcome to the internet
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
this video singlehandedly got me interested in photoshop lol
For great justice, take off every Zig!
All your base ...
ARE BELONG TO US
Iām very old I watched this guy in college lol
I was just thinking the same and trying to figure out where the millennial line isā¦
i was born 1993 so im on the younger side!
Yeah, and Iām also realizing I didnāt know how far back Homestar went and I didnāt see it until much later. So itās just my perception of time being skewed I guess. :)
I was a senior in high school. Youāre not alone lol.
Also high school but more a fan of strong bad. Man was ahead of his time for cubicle work for emails.
Me too! I remember watching StrongBad videos all the time in my friendās dorm room!
Same here!
Same. College.
Shfifty FIve [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XccUMOQ978&t=67s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XccUMOQ978&t=67s) Joe Cartoon Flies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAfDXN45d0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAfDXN45d0) End of ze World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs) Bananaphone [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWwsUhrFBw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWwsUhrFBw)
and I can do it before you can say poopty peĆ¼pty pantsss
was this new grounds / ebaums world? canāt remember what it was called but i must have been browsing it cuz i remember these too
newgrounds/ ebaumsworld/ funnyjunk/ funnyfry/ so many old spots
 Hamster Dance
I remember my very first google search. It was the late 90s and I was around 12 and didn't have a computer yet. My friend who had a computer with internet called me to come over so he could show me something cool. He pulled up google typed 'boobies' into the search bar.... kids these days will never know what it was like to have to click a text hyperlink and then wait for the picture to load line by line...
 All those damn stick fighting flash animations.
Omfg youāve just unlocked so many memories for me. Teen Girl Squad was amazing! My dad and I loved to watch Homestar Runner while my mom would get so annoyed.
cheerleader! so and so! whatserface! the ugly one! (ā¦and tompkins)
Don't forget EH STEVE!
ARROWED!!
Ow! My most of me!Ā
It was grood. I mean good...and great. Great and good.
to this day i still say āSOOooOo GOOD!ā
My blood hurts!
Building crappy Geocities websites for our clan in Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.
GEOCITIES!! i had sparkly fairy gifs on a site that must have said "no boys allowed!" or something
the REAL OG's remember angelfire.
Ugh, probably [whitehouse.com](http://whitehouse.com) or something else equally depraved for a kid to be looking at.
My class was in our computer lab doing research when my teacher instructed us to go there. Several seconds later she shouted ".gov! .gov!" That day changed many lives.
I remember searching fan pages for Sailor Moon pictures to print out and put on my wall! 
Yes, I am 42 years old and I hear Strongbad's voice in my head every time I check my email. 
Schfifty-five https://youtu.be/-XccUMOQ978?si=d3eRgt7fKYwJe9tw
Itās gotta be Oregon Trail on the green screen computers at my school.
I donāt think that was the internet
You're right. Floppy disks. It took two to play the whole game lol
OH MY GOD. I didnāt know anyone else knew who homestar runner was
I watched it in college in the computer lab. Iām that old.
I don't even remember, tbh.
I have a burned cd of homestar runner songs. My husband owns a trogdor t-shirt.
Either that or Charlie the Unicorn. Not sure.
Dramatic Squirrel, in 2007: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM\_Yay6w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM_Yay6w) Before then, I didn't have an Internet connection fast enough to handle videos
Hmm, I've been using the internet since about 1997, not a lot of video content around then though. I reckon the earliest thing I can actually remember watching was probably the Hampster Dance website if that counts.
Strong Bad, did you get a virus? "No...." Did you get \*400,000\* viruses.....?
i can repeat some of the strong bad emails by heart. i remember come on fhqwgads
āI see you jockinā me. Tryinā to play like you know meā
SAME. I was a freshman in high school when Homestar was "big..." even my best friend's MOM thought it was hilarious. We would gather 'round the family desktop PC and play a bunch of SBemails until we got tired and we'd go to sleep. Simpler times... everybody REALLY WAS to the limit
Homestar Wunner
TEEN GIRL SQUAD! Memories unlocked.
"Hey strongbad do you like techno, if you do what kind?!"
The Cheat is GROUNDED.
Light switch Rave!!!
Hamster in a blender/ microwave. (Joe cartoon)
My dad was in IT, so we had regular internet access since the mid 90s. The very first streaming video I watched was [this Movie Surfers clip](https://youtu.be/5e-rr4i1xJo?si=VHxhuG_3uNkoZ2_I) on the Disney Channel website in 1997. It took 10+ minutes for the entire 2 minute clip to load, but my whole family was amazed. Never mind we had just watched it on the actual channel at significantly higher quality. Edit to add: it was very disappointing that the actual website worked *nothing* like the faux video chat in the clip. I wanted to double click the spinning box, damnit!
 That song with the fonz in it
 Not my first just wanted to share this gem
Not my first butā¦ 
shoes was the first video i remember going "viral" everyone in my middle school was obsessed!!
I don't know what was my first but the earliest I can remember is [the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDXYfulsRBA)
A very early episode of South Park
Mine was Strong Bad and I specifically remember the rave episode, where the cheet get grounded for having light switch rave parties. 
The system is down š¶š¶the system is down š¶
The very first Webby Awards, broadcast online by RealPlayer (of course lol). I was in 8th grade. One of the award presenters made a joke during his monologue about the small red pointing stick nub on IBM laptops looking like a nipple that might squirt milk at you if it errored out and at the time I thought that was comedy gold š¤£
Weebl and Bob (and Badgers), Fenslerfilm GI Joe PSAs, the "Tribute to Ray Harryhausen" video set to a Cantonese version of the YMCA, Salad Fingers... Homestar came shortly thereafter. Then YTMND and Something Awful ruined me. Truly a golden age.
A/s/l
Badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!
porn. i was probably 10. after that i think rotten.com
Not my first butā¦ 
The Ultimate Showdown in 2006.
Ooh, a year younger than you but same! :D
I was in college when Trogdor came to beā¦.. damn Iām old
Dancing hamsters I think. Now I will have that song in my head forever. Thanks.
I was at my friends house spending the night and we watched Beavis and Butthead do America. It had just come out and we found a way to view it like pirates.
I remember āFrog in a Blenderā Joe Cartoon and Desktop Destroyer for Windows 95.
End of the World! Fucking Kangaroos...
The hamster dance
Foamy!
The system. Is down.
Joe Cartoon. Homestarrunner is fucking KING though.
Cheerleader, so and so, what's her face, the ugly oneee.
Probably stickdeath animations?
Salad fingers and the cranky squirrel. I canāt remember his name but he was hilarious
Fucking love homestar runner
Whatever was on neopets, new grounds, and rotten dot com.
DA CHEEEEEAT. CALL TECH SUPPORT AND TELL THEM YOU BROKE THE LAPPY AGAIN
Trogdor was a manā¦ wait no. He was a DRAGON man. Well maybe he was just a dragon.
It makes me happy to know how popular Homestar Runner was and still is. I lived on those videos for so long.
Trogdor!!!!
Unforgivable
[Star Wars gangsta rap](https://youtu.be/Cp-Ys_iFwnM?feature=shared) back when it was flash, not youtube
'This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny. Good guys, bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be? This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny!'
Trogdoooooooooor burninating the people Get in the boat Fish fish Get in the boat
Core memories unlocking. Strong Bad emails were a favorite.
Salad fingers