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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?

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 115 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

O RLY?
It's the only meme I have ever truly loved.

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[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 50 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (7 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

Vell, go take a nap...

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I say "Hokay" at work to find my people

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[–] abc@suppo.fi 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 51 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'd forgotten about that brief period where we all put giant black frames around all our memes. Feels classier. It was hell on the printer ink though.

[–] micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I think it went: Motivational posters > demotivational posters > generic means

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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 46 points 22 hours ago (6 children)
[–] ennof@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago

Shoop da whoop, my fren.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I'mma wearin' my blazerrr!

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

I'm a farmer in Malaysia

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 104 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Absolutely. I used an archeology analogy. This fits perfectly.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 89 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I still talk like this sometimes

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[–] Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] waggz@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

finally found my people in this thread

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Made it onto Ally McBeal TV show, which was the hot show at that time.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 115 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

So many references from the pre-youtube era occupy a permanent part of my brain.

Arrowed

Schfifty Five

Peanut butter jelly time

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[–] expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not that old, but I was just now looking up the Scottish Guy Gets Stuck on a Roof.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (7 children)
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