Dancing Baby (1996)
In 1996, the "Dancing Baby" meme (also known as the Oogachaka Dancing Baby and the Cha Cha Baby) took the Internet by storm and is widely known as the first viral video or meme. The viral short video, created by Character Studio, features a 3D rendered baby dancing to the intro of "Hooked on a Feeling" by the Swedish rock group Blue Swede. Originally spread by email, message boards and both commercial and private websites, it eventually crossed over to traditional television as a recurring hallucination on the TV series, Ally McBeal.