"All your base are belong to us" What is that??

[Dagger75]

Okay I just proved my ignorance and uncoolness to you all by asking you what this means. I have seen this phrase pop every now and then and have no idea what anyone is talking about.
I must be getting old

 

[Wolfspider]

http://www.wagz.net/allyourbase.html

 

[enrious]

Wow, that question is so 2001

 

[Kamard]

NoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

why, god, why???

*looks around*

Oh. Ahem. Right.

All your base yatta yatta yatta is a line from an extremely poorly translated japanese video game that originally appeared on some crappy home game system. A legion of geeks then disseminated this to the universe at large, where an even greater legion of geeks AND mainstream yutzes have allowed even tribesmen and aborigines from a week away from the nearest Sega system or computer to hear about it.

And that is your history lesson for the day.

 

[Someguy]

Something Awful had a large part in it's popularity as well.
here is a time line...The timeline of AYB

 

[Dagger75]

Thanks. Man you guys reply very fast.

 

[Dagger75]

Now I feel bad wasting all your valuable time and the bandwidth on this server that could have been spent discussing Time Stop and Haste questions

 

[Someguy]

I was actually jsut re-reading that site when you asked the quesiton...so no prob...

 

[Number47]

Because it was brought up, I thought I could post this one again:

Oh, and one more