
On May 28, 2000, Audacity was released as Audacity 0.8 to the public. The project was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University, initially under the name CMU Visual Audio. Executables with VST3 support are licensed GPL-3-only to maintain license compatibility. It was previously served from Google Code and SourceForge, where it was downloaded over 200 million times. Īs of December 6, 2022, Audacity is the most popular download at FossHub, with over 114.2 million downloads since March 2015. GPL v2 or Later, CC-BY-3.0 (documentation) Īudacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marathi, Norwegian ( Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh.The meme continued to spread across social media throughout the year, with a focus on Reddit and Facebook.

On the same day, Facebook page Launceston Memes posted a version of the meme, garnering over 500 reactions and 80 shares in 3 months (shown below, right). On July 20th, Redditor yeborne uploaded an HD template of the image to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial. On July 19th, 2020, Redditor RealChronicle posted a version of the meme to /r/ memes, garnering over 23,000 upvotes in 3 months (shown below, left).

This is one of the earliest known public posts of the image macro. On July 19th, 2020, Redditor Flaffelll posted an image macro featuring the phrase over top of a promotional image from "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" film to /r/rareinsults (shown below). The text post was reposted by multiple Facebook meme pages throughout December and January. On December 15th, 2019, Facebook meme page Meme'N posted a text post featuring the same phrase over a different background, garnering over 1,800 reactions, 1,700 comments, and 28,000 shares in 11 months (shown below).

The earliest known public instance of the phrase was uploaded to Facebook on December 12th, 2019 as a simple text post by the page The Eternal Dreamers.
