#Message Boards

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Video thumbnail — All Your Base Are Belong To Us (Original)
Trends 1999–2002

All Your Base Are Belong to Us

A hilariously broken line of video-game English that became one of the internet's first true memes. In February 2001, a techno remix and a Newgrounds video put 'All your base are belong to us' on forum signatures, Photoshopped billboards, and eventually YouTube's own maintenance page.

gamefaqs
Trends 1995–present

GameFAQs

A vast library of fan-written, plain-text walkthroughs in monospaced ASCII — hand-drawn text maps, boss strategies, and the one password you needed. Players printed fifty-page guides on the family printer or scrolled giant text files over dial-up. GameFAQs was how you beat the unbeatable.