{"id":9831,"date":"2022-08-01T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:21:15","slug":"all-your-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2022\/08\/01\/all-your-base\/","title":{"rendered":"All your base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take a little trip back in time to one of the internet&#8217;s oldest and most famous memes: &#8220;<em>All Your Base&#8221;.<\/em> AKA &#8220;<em>All your base are belong to us<\/em>&#8220;, this internet meme was based on a badly translated phrase from the opening scene of a video game called&nbsp; &#8220;<em>Zero Wing<\/em>&#8220;. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game. This is a slightly cleaned-up version of the original.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3j_3hF0m3w\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" align=\"middle\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We actually still have a copy of the original <a href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/projects\/flash\/curios\/ayb\/\">AYB flash presentation<\/a> tucked away in the GarfNet archives. But unfortunately you need a &#8220;flash player&#8221; installed in your browser in order to see it. And if you never heard of it, then there is quite a good Wikipedia page on the subject&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Gallery<\/h2>\n<p>This is a gallery of the pictures used in the video&#8230;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<hr>\n<h2>Wikipedia Page<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take a little trip back in time to one of the internet&#8217;s oldest and most famous memes: &#8220;All Your Base&#8221;. 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