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The imaginary photos in the video soon became reality, as websites for the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Guardian, and Wired published stories on its popularity. When students from North Carolina University hacked into a local news station’s weather-reporting system in 2004, “All your base are belong to us” is one of the phrases they used as digital graffiti. And now, 20 years later, it still pops up from time to time thanks to folks like billionaire dork Elon Musk and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

While its cultural cachet may not be the same as it was two decades ago, “All Your Base” was an important precursor to the meme-filled World Wide Web we know today. It saw disparate creators come together and iterate on a singular joke, making everything from music to elaborately edited photos and animations to celebrate a few silly lines from an obscure import Genesis game.

“All Your Base” is indicative of an era when the internet felt like a wild frontier rather than a place of business owned by a few massive corporations. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go try to wrap my head around the fact it’s been 20 years since I first saw this video.

Take off every ‘ZIG’!! For great justice.