In the year 2100 on my 120th birthday, looking to the adoring eyes of my decedents.
“I was there, at the beginning, it was glorious and it was terrible, we had Charlie the Unicorn and Nyan cat, but also there was two girls and one cup…those days are gone now; forgotten the memes have morphed and combined new ones have spawned, the originals are no more”
Remember goatse? Wasn’t that a cute rabbit?
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.
No, that was the 2001 election webpage. You’re thinking of tubgirl.
No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Blue Waffle.
My fav sfw
Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.
Guy opens a-bag-of-doritos to show everybody.
I still watch nightly streams from FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn creator). Great getting low key downtempo small streams from a legendary meme lord.
You forgot Tubgirl
No I didn’t… You never forget
Truth.
I don’t get this. And I’m le tired.
I’ll take a nap.
AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!
Legend
… wait for it… dary!
And then afterwards IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ0000R
Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff’s 1997 cover of Blue Swede’s cover of BJ Thomas’s “Hooked on a Feeling”
I do remember. 2003.
Close, 1998.
Technically, 1996.
Figuratively, 1987.
Theoretically 1832.
The episode aired in January 1998
Remember Mr T Ate My Balls? Remember Mahir “I Will Kiss You”?
Do you remember “Papa Smurf, Can I Lick Your Ass?” None of my friends do. It was either weeble’s stuff or ebaum’s world, I don’t even remember, it’s all like rustling leaves in my brain.
Domo arigato.
Kilroy!
Internet was much better when it was just Star Wars Kid and All your base.
Legend.
The original was better
And more accessible to photosensitive epileptics!
What you say…?
MAIN SCREEN TURN ON
We got signal!
Kilroy was here
Damn, an even more ancient meme
Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary’s silly dance and lip sync to the “numa numa” song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don’t miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days…
There’s been an HD version for a few years now
That’s beautiful. It’s looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D
Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect…
Fun story: Someone said he was only popular because of the pretty girls in his videos, so he dropped this banger with only himself in it.
Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here’s awesome band Red Baraat covering it!
🐴 👀
🐴 🤩
👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.
✊️🐴
🛩
🐴
✊️🍆
Or something like that
👧🤮
🫵🤔
🚫🙈
📍🍋🏭
🍬🍋
👉🐴
🚶♂️➡️➡️👀🪐
(🌆🌇🌉)
☝️🤓 🪐>(🌆🌇🌉)
🤫👩 👉🐴You win, that was genuinely magical
🐴 🕶️ 🎹
🎼 Get on my horse…… 🎶
I just want to say, all you degenerates in this thread, you are my people. Thank you for remembering the terrible shit we shared.
Terrible‽ The fuck you on about?
Remember the time you defended deportation for autism awareness tattoos?
No because I didn’t do that, you’re still a moron and a stalker that is worthy of reporting.
Report away friend, just make sure you don’t have any visible tattoos because that might cause problems.
That’s the funny thing, I do. But I would never compare them to the numbers printed on the prisoners at Auschwitz, because that would be something only a gigantic asshole would do!
I think that’s cute they think those were the first memes.
That badger animation is from 2003. “First memes,” my ass!
First ERA of memes is implied.
2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.
But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.
Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.
Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!
Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”
this is the most Eternal September thing I’ve ever heard
That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.
I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.
You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.
And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.
I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.
And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.
Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!
Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.
And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.
“the first memes” yeah right
All your base are belong to us!
The first? Idk about that, im 27. And am well aware of memes prior to my existance. The oldest i can think of is the dancing baby meme.
Or more relavent to this would be the hamster dance
Memes are also not inherently digital. Going back to the definition set by Richard Dawkins (trans-hating bigot he is), a meme is anything that “conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” Perhaps that’s a bit broad of a definition compared to what we conventionally think of as memes, but it’s how we got to where we are.
People in ancient Egypt building pyramids and obelisks because someone before them built pyramids and obelisks is a meme. Cathedrals being built in much the same way throughout Renaissance Europe is a meme.
But those examples aside, there are still a few pre-internet examples that would still resonate more with the idea of memes as we know them today. Kilroy was Here is considered a meme and goes back to World War II. Or a bit before that, this “How you think you look” cartoon which I am not entirely sure was overly meme-like in its day but certainly feels relatable today.
But even slogans or popular sayings could be considered memes; if we consider internet terms/phrases like “pog” or “Are ya winning, son?” or (dating myself) “I can haz cheezburger?” to be memes, what about pre-internet sayings like “Luke, I am your father,” “It’s just a flesh wound,” or “Where’s the beef?” Or going way, way back, what about saying “Break a leg” before a performance, or “All the world’s a stage,” or even “Carpe diem”? I think one could make a case for just about any repeated and widely understood concept, really.
Knights fighting snails goes back even further.
Even further back, cave paintings of spirals and stenciled hands.
Memes don’t need to be digital
🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🍌📞
Too too too doodledoo
🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
👤🤙🍕
👤🤙🐱
👤🤙⬜🏠, 💬🗨️
👤🤙🌎
👷🫱🇨🇳
🍌📞
🔔🔔🔔
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I have no idea what the snake and mushrooms are and I was born before the internet existed, so it’s not only kids.
Same.
Hey guys… remember Newgrounds? Heh… Remember Spoony? Hehe…
How is he these days? I heard Oreo passed away at some point but I haven’t kept up with any of the TGWTG people in a few years.
He was doing let’s plays last i saw. But that was a while ago. Poor guy was an early victim of the internet before we realized how bad it was going to be.
