Mastodawn

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

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i

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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually Feb 17

@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”

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Irenes (many)Feb 17

@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.

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@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.