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No. 087 · Fossil record
Dancing Baby
Infans renderus
A crude 3D-rendered baby, frozen mid cha-cha, forwarded by email before most of the internet had email.
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- Habitat
- Corporate inboxes, 1996
- First observed
- 1996
- Diet
- Forwarded attachments
- Call
- A looping ooga-chaka
- Composition
- Baby model, 1. Dance loop, endless.
Conservation status
EXEWCRENVUNTLC
Extinct in the wild
Field notes
Built as a demo file for 3D animation software, then leaked into office email chains long before anyone called anything viral. It later got a cameo on a network sitcom, the closest thing this meme has to a victory lap.
At the printer
A simple humanoid figure in a dance pose. The tricky part is dating it, not printing it.