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The Dancing Baby, the internet’s first viral sensation before social media

Discover how the Dancing Baby became a 1996 internet phenomenon and helped shape the future of viral online culture.
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Ally McBeal's dancing baby, one of the internet's first viral memes, first graced screens 28 years ago

The dancing baby had already been making the rounds by email when David E. Kelley's assistant shared it with him Ally McBeal starred Calista Flockhart as the titular character, a lawyer at a ...