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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just for a bit of context I was "surfing the internet" in 1994 via Gopher, an early alternative to the web as we know it now and I used it primarily to find and download apps stored on computers connected to the internet.

In 1995 I was using the Mosaic browser and later Netscape to surf the World Wide Web mostly via webrings that were individual webpages that had links to other wepages of similar content linked to them.

I don't recall and am not aware of anything that would resemble a meme from that time? This is a year or so before Dancing Baby which is usually considered the first viral video and even then that was originally shared via email forwards.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Memes back then were under construction gifs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Geocities circa 94-96. The first place anyone could have a little webpage.

We didn't even have CSS then! We had to build our pages in a cave with a box of HTML tags for scraps. You could do some sick shit with some fancy nested TABLE tags tho.

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

I remember when they depreciated tables for use in styling, and everybody was freaking out because how could you make a pretty website without them?

We didn't know back then how spoiled we would be with CSS.

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

I'm pretty sure that all the hats for CSS is from people who never experienced the web before it.

IMHO CSS is a gift from the Gods.

[–] brygphilomena 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That green wireframe rotating skull and crossbones. That was everywhere

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

While playing a sick White Zombie midi file.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Usenet was absolutely swarming with memes. They were text-based rather than image-based but they were definitely memes.