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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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2007 wasn’t early internet lol.
Early internet’s most famous meme was probably either hamster dance or dancing baby. All Your Base wasn’t long after.
That toaster cat shitting rainbows
Edit or the beep beep frog with the schlong
Edit edit: guess that last one was a whole video...not a meme
Edit edit edit: how do we feel about peanut butter jelly time?
And edit edit edit edit...omg stupid rainbow cat just looked old enough for me to mis remember...its not old at all
See the edit edit edit edit...
Re: peanut butter jelly time - my 8 year old picked it up somewhere along the way and is one of his favorite songs now.
Between All Your Base Are Belong To Us and Peanut Butter Jelly Time, you guys are giving me a trip down memory lane! Or down CanIHazCheezburger and Shoop Da Whoops (although those are more recent, I believe)
I mean there were even fax machine "memes". Checkout Faxlore if you weren't around at the time.
Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.
But I'm le tired...
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Okay, have a nap.
THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
even this is pretty late-stage flash content. We must go deeper.
I miss the days of looping flash videos. The Badger Song, The Llama Song, Magical Trevor, etc. Those defined my childhood.
Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers mushroom mushroom
Here's a llama, there's a llama and another little llama
Nuhuh.
True early internet meme was pics from Madonna's coffee table book. Iykyk.
For sure dancing baby. Was shared as an attachment on emails even before YouTube was a thing
Ron Livingston playing piano as a cat.
He was imitating this video which went viral before his.
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