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Yeah, the 'zerg' meme originates from Starcraft. It's been commonly used (often pejoratively) in gaming circles to describe situations in which superior numbers dictated the outcome of an encounter.

On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29.

Edit : I was kind of surprised to see this meme explicitly explained. I've always thought of it as being one of the most ubiquitous out there.

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> On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29.

Do you remember a time before Google? Google was started the same year as Starcraft was released - 1998.

(Weirdly Armageddon and Deep Impact were released in 1998)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_film)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998)

I think Lycos is the earliest search engine I remember using

Altavista.digital.com, not to be confused with the poor sod who had altivista.com.

But then, for some reason, I thought it was a Toy Story joke.

I remember Lycos, Altavista, Excite, Infoseek and Yahoo as being the search engines I used throughout middle school. I don't think I began using Google until 99 or so.

However, I also remember using BBS systems. TradeWars 2002, anyone?

Didn't play TradeWars 2002 but spent a fair amount of time with Legend of the Red Dragon.

Metacrawler was awesome at this time.

The term "Zerg Rush" is based on the term "Grunt Rush" from Warcraft II. A Grunt Rush is when you build your Barracks first before your Town Hall to start churning out Grunts as fast as possible. It's a degenerate strategy that's pretty much indefensible. The term was coined by a player named Tou in 1996. The Zerg race in StarCraft were particularly good at attacking with many units early in the game, so this term was coopted by StarCraft players and it became "Zerg Rush."

Consider that there are kids out there who are 10 years old, but weren't alive to experience 9/11.

just blew my mind

scary!

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