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Showerthoughts

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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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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Re: peanut butter jelly time - my 8 year old picked it up somewhere along the way and is one of his favorite songs now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] bhmnscmm 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean there were even fax machine "memes". Checkout Faxlore if you weren't around at the time.

[–] Regna 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.

[–] kiwifoxtrot 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] kiwifoxtrot 2 points 2 years ago

THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES

[–] Donebrach 2 points 2 years ago

even this is pretty late-stage flash content. We must go deeper.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I miss the days of looping flash videos. The Badger Song, The Llama Song, Magical Trevor, etc. Those defined my childhood.

[–] TimoBRL 6 points 2 years ago

Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers mushroom mushroom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Here's a llama, there's a llama and another little llama

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Nuhuh.

True early internet meme was pics from Madonna's coffee table book. Iykyk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

For sure dancing baby. Was shared as an attachment on emails even before YouTube was a thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ron Livingston playing piano as a cat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He was imitating this video which went viral before his.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.