'Rickrolling' — luring people into clicking a link that leads to a 1987 pop video — began on the message board 4chan in 2007.

2007

The bait-and-switch prank pointed unsuspecting clickers to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' It grew into one of the internet's most enduring in-jokes, and Astley himself has embraced it, even surprise-performing the song to rickroll a live audience.