The older the internet gets, the more it’s like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What’s is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?
You must log in or register to comment.
Probably de-motivational posters? Those are the oldest big thing I can think of.
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators
This is semi adjacent bc I was feeling nostalgic earlier and I watched about an hour worth of vines while making dinner.
7 days
Pretty sure this is actually older than Keyboard Cat.
Edit:
Ok so, this whargarbl is 2008, technically, keyboard cat was first uploaded in 2007, but it didn’t “become a meme” untill somebody else used the clip at the end of another video, for comical effect, in 2009.
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Split between the “I haz a buckit” sea lion and the migraine guy who says “Not this shit again.”
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Technically that was a screensaver not a meme. How about the Oswald/Ruby band?
(
)
So many references from the pre-youtube era occupy a permanent part of my brain.
Arrowed
Schfifty Five
Peanut butter jelly time
TGS and Group X got me through college.
Two hawt chaim and cheesus and two meester cokes.
- 7 days
I’m in my 40s and Homestar/TGS/Sbemail quotes are more of my vernacular than I even know. I’ll watch an old toon with my partner and they’ll be like “THAT’S WHY YOU SAY THAT IN THAT WAY?!”
The system is down. There’s a swiss cake roll in your motherboard.
I have to stop myself from making references, because it’s so old that they don’t land anymore.
- 7 days
Wait until you get so old that you use the actual product this meme is advertising.
- 7 days
When I was young and that video was new, one weekend I went to hang out with a bunch of friends. They were all quoting it and I hadn’t seen it. I was real worried about Al’s butt until someone showed me the video.
- 7 days
Ok first off… Badger badger badger not being mentioned in this thread is a crime
But this one still gets me
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/283749
And this one
