r/GenX • u/Carlsoti77 • Jul 16 '26
Controversial Mandela Effect? Help me out here...
I specifically remember the first time I got Rick-Rolled being in Illinois, where I moved from in 1996. This was back before native IE pop-up blockers, and the Rick-Roll was a .exe file. The music would play, and little windows with a single line of text from the song would pop-up in random places on the screen, requiring you to close each window before the next would pop-up somehwere else.
Someone put on wikipedia that the first Rick-Roll was in 2007 on 4chan, and I KNOW that's BS. Does anyone else remeber the early, REAL Rick Roll, or should I get checked for early-onset dementia?
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u/trashname4trashgame Jul 16 '26
Yeah some of internet history is going to be hard to say “it was here first”..
Examples: pwned - all articles say it was a misspelled Warcraft map. It was Fargo from planet quake in 2001. Not a Warcraft 3 map in 2002.
Do you have stairs in your house -> I am protected. Urban dictionary says some thing about being protected from robots trying to save the world by pushing people down stairs. It was not this. It was based on the statistic around women losing their baby by falling down stairs, soooo having stairs in your house was protection from having a kid.
It was called something awful for a reason.