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Widely considered the first true internet meme, the Dancing Baby—also known as “Baby Cha-Cha” or the “Oogachacka Baby”—is a 3D-rendered infant dancing awkwardly to the song “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede.

Originally shared in underground tech circles between 1996 and 1997, the Dancing Baby cemented its status as the first internet meme when it appeared on the 1998 television show Ally McBeal, where it reached an audience of 11 million viewers.

The Dancing Baby, in its digital format and irresistible appeal, would prove the utility of a new kind of universally recognized expression—one that possessed the necessary ingredients to form the recipe for a new digital means of communication capable of bridging cultural and linguistic barriers in a world rapidly moving online.

Though its formula for mass appeal may be difficult to define, there can be no doubt that the Dancing Baby struck a collective nerve deep enough to achieve unprecedented levels of popularity. Its spread was driven largely through email forwards that tested the limits of the early World Wide Web’s capabilities. And while its imprint on the collective unconscious is what the Dancing Baby is best remembered for, its historical relevance lies in the fact that it proved the capacity of an expanding internet to validate a network capable of transferring information seamlessly across the globe in record time. Without a slightly more mature internet, there would have been no Dancing Baby.

The Dancing Baby—undefinable in its appeal, unprecedented in its proliferation, and emblematic of the technological capabilities of its day—will forever hold a place in the nostalgic bones of those who opened the email that gave birth to an adorable image that somehow etched itself into history as the very first of its kind.