The oldest meme you remember - Holy crap is that dancing baby real?!

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Also a whole lot of "Don't have a cow, man" shirts.

Let's not forget: Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.
 
If we're talking oldest possible, I think the very first meme I was ever aware of was probably The Clock Crew on Newgrounds.
 
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Longcat busy being long up in Heaven. :semperfidelis:

Well I remember the dancing baby. And that fairy wearing nothing but a ribbon that would bounce her cleavage. My spoon is too big, I'm bleeding, All your base.

And I remember the early days of weeaboos adding random Japanese to their messages. Not sure if that's a meme. But it seemed to spread like the Bubonic Plague and got pretty annoying. You couldn't go to an anime fansite without seeing ne, minna-san, nani, baka, kawaii, sugoi or any of the other cutesy easy to remember words peppered all over the place. Everyone was a chan, san or sama. I learned a bunch of words just by browsing AniPike. :lol:

Baka-ing all over the damn place. And there was no "muh cultural appropriation". So the weebs were free to be as weeby as they wanted with the only negative responses coming from people who just hated weebs.
 
If we're talking about meme-able 1980s advertising slogans, obviously "Where's the Beef?" but that's already been mentioned so I'll go with "Time to Make the Donuts" which I think predates "Where's the Beef?" although this particular Dunkin' Donuts ad is from 1984, which was the same year as Wendy's "Where's the Beef" campaign if I remember correctly.

 
Duck rolling. Before rick rolling, like way before, you'd craft a url that looked like something you'd want to click on but instead it was a pic of a duck on wheels.
Found on IRC usually. It was way before image hosting sites so you'd need your own server.

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‘Kilroy was here’

Not that I was around for its origin; but it was mentioned in a comic I read as a child, asked about what it was, and so was technically the first and hence oldest meme I encountered.
 
A teacher in my class room pulled up The Hamster Dance on her computer, this would have been 2000.

First meme I was really exposed to was when X-Play aired the "all your base" music video sometime in 2003 I think, also heard of the Star Wars kid on TV around that time.

I think it's also possible they aired "Space People" on TV around that time too?

First meme I would have been exposed to when actually using the internet myself would have been the Mobile Alabama Leprechaun video ("TA ME IT LOOK LIKE A LEPRECHAUN TA ME"), Snakes On a Plane, "The End of The World" and "Schwenty Five"

I couldn't tell you what the first 4chan meme I saw was sadly, I'd have to think about it.
 
I Like Monkeys

The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought this
was odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a
gift horse in the mouth so I bought 200 of them. I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one of drive. His
name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright.
They kept punching themselves in the genitals. I laughed. They punched me in
the genitals.

I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new
environment. They would screech and hurl themselves off the couch at high
speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost
its novelty halfway into it's third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive; they
all died. No apparent reason. They all just sort of dropped dead. Kinda
like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. God damn cheap
monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my
room; on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I
had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work.
It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and one hundred ninety-nine
dead, dry monkeys.

I tried to pretend that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for
awhile, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real
bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in my toilet and I didn't want to
call a plumber. I was too embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately
there was only enough room for two at a time, so I had to change them every 30
seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't go bad.

I tried to burn them, but little did I know that my bed was flammable. I
had
to extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in
my freezer, and one hundred ninety-seven dead, charred monkeys in a pile on
my bed, The odor wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of the dead monkeys and I
really had to use the bathroom. So I went and severely beat one of the
monkeys. I felt better.

I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said the city was not
allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him I had a wet one. He
couldn't take it either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My
friends didn't quite know what to say. They pretended to like them, but
I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
 
Not the oldest one I remember. But a lot of older ones I remember have already been posted and this thread made me remember this and it wasn't posted yet so...this one

 
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