The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes. Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood. Bill Porfido, president of a merchandising firm called Abatis International, eventually purchased the site, and described the resulting disaster as"How one man sunk a million trying to turn the world's most annoying website into the biggest thing in kiddie entertainment.

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