Tunak Tunak Tun
You might remember it as Daler Mehndi Tunak Tunak Tun
1998·Early web, before YouTube
An early global music-video meme and a rare non-Anglophone item from the pre-YouTube era.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Daler Mehndi Tunak Tunak Tun
- Spread in
- 1998
- Began as
- A commercial release
- Where it started
- commercial-release
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Playable from the source
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release. The version shown here is an official copy on YouTube, published by a rights holder.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.
View the official copy on YouTube
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.