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Antique Memes Roadshow

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[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 81 points 2 years ago

Ironically it makes you seem rather young to think remembering this makes you old

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 68 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Remember the striper versions on porn sites?

I never understood who the market was. Like why would you want a little stripper clippy/bonzo buddy assistant?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

The same people who wanted a loud 3D envelope telling them they received an email.

[–] ballogh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Damn I 'membah even I used it on my PC

[–] Frozzie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

feature length

[–] deetz@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

That's about how old I am, yeah.

[–] Evil_Opossum@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I still hear the modulated voice in my head

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

They should bring this back with chat GPT integrated

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

...yes 😭

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago

They were on peak 10 years ago. Bar is not too high imho

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was already old when those were new.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I, too, miss the days of ASCII art.

[–] Treefox@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

The sad thing is this ain't that old.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You think you're old, but are you creepy-ass CGI dancing baby old?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I'm even older. I was around to see the very first internet viral meme. That CGI dancing baby. I saw it even before it was featured on Ally McBeal, thus also starting the tradition of killing a viral meme when it hit mainstream.

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was there when All Your Base was created, 3000 years ago...

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

And who could forget

wololo

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Viral memes on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched CGI babies dance in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People who are old wouldn't remember these since they're too new

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

I was online before the cat wanted a cheeseburger.

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldn't you be getting to bed, grandpa?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Can't, gotta fix these network servers.

[–] tryptamine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] ShadyGrove@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They set us up the bomb!

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bro, I'm "xeroxed jokes in the workplace" old.

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I’ m making a basic program to spell out 80085 on the Teletype paper tape old.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Older. I'm old enough to remember the cutting edge upgrade to the 36k modem.

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I've sent emails over a 1200 baud modem line.

That's 1.2k. You could literally see each character appear one by one on the screen.

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[–] Dedwin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Opossum@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Mmm body massage machine GO!

[–] deroyonz@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

me and the other grandpas over 18yo reminiscing over ancient funny poker face meme

[–] PierrAlz@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always get these songs in mind when I see them Trololo

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

This era of memes > current era of memes

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

First term of Obama old.

[–] adventure@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

People would use these templates to create meandering comic style blog posts and present them as memes. It seems like they were the first generation of memes that went fully mainstream and imo were very bad because people could not help but make the comics very long and boring.

[–] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I remember when the internet started

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

Schfifty five

[–] CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Killfrog, Joe cartoon, bonzai buddy, hamster dance...

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[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

I grew up around the mlg meme era

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I member when memes were called taglines and we distributed text files of them on FidoNet.

[–] mcqtom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You're the man now, dog!

[–] Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, I remember viewing these with my lumia windows phone in 2014, when I was 10

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