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We're Old School, we're Vibrant, a Shining Beacon, we're a Time Capsule, a Digital Brigadoon. I guess you could say we are getting a little long in the tooth ... and claw.

It's been 25 years since SpongeBob SquarePants first appeared and Rhaomi made a fantastic megapost in celebration! Come check out all the various origins of characters, behind the scenes information and more about everyone's favorite sponge! Photo by Paul Wilkinson via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/)

Photo by Scott Swigart on Flickr

Wobbuffet casts a mage hand with a smashing megathread for Dungeons & Dragons 50th birthday (more or less)! 🐉

Fatboy Slim by alterna2 (cc by)

Hippybear provides us with this week's Throwback Thursday, which is about the 25th anniversary of Fatboy Slim's album "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" and the various sources of the musical and vocal samples.

oh to be 20 again..... by Beatnik Photos (cc by)

AskMetafilter recently turned 20 and various members stopped by to give a shout out! Here's to 20 more! How should we celebrate when AskMe turns 21?!

In Metatalk, the podcast has its 16th anniversary (and all episodes now have transcripts!), and Fizz posts an open gaming thread.

Birthday pie by Droid Gingerbread (cc by)

Happy 19th birthday Metafilter!

They Might Be Giants - John Flansburgh by CLender (cc by)

In 1990, They Might Be Giants released their classic album "Flood". Over the last few months, musicians on MeFi Music have been posting cover songs for the entire album, which was recently completed, and all tracks can be heard here just in time for the 25th anniversary.