Life After Net: Giving Birth to the Dancing Baby

(via Great Big Story)  Before dank memes, Reddit trolls, hacktivism, there was Michael Girard and Robert Lurye. Don’t recognize those names? You’ll recognize their work. All they wanted to do was demo some new animation software—instead, they birthed a diaper-clad monstrosity that crawled out the uncanny valley and into internet ignominy forever. This is the story of the Dancing Baby.