On: Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]

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Rickrolling was not born in the early-2000's as the author says. It was alive and well in the late 1990's, at least at U.T. Arlington.

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A simple web search would have gotten you there: https://tinyurl.com/arlington-multimedia

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I'm sorry. I didn't save screen-shots in 1997.

I do remember that there were Rick Astley videos uploaded to YouTube under throwaway accounts for years before Rick Astley started uploading his own videos to YouTube.

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I'm calling BS, I was there for the Duckroll.