• Sasquatch@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Baby shark predates the internet, no? I learned it on a fieldtrip in the late dialup era, well before casual internet browsing was mainstream (at least for kids my age)

    • You got me curious so I looked it up, and you’re right. Apparently it was a campfire song that’s been around since like the 70s? I never heard of it until pinkfong put it on blast. Thanks for the education!

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        14 days ago

        Yeah, we were singing it a long time before the internet was a thing accessible to children. It was passed down by those who went to camps along with such songs as “da moose da moose”

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      15 days ago

      It hurts to read “The original song dates back to the 20th century” in the Wikipedia article.