this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 14 points 1 year ago (3 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] hydrospanner 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a fisherman, I've seen this typo go the other way countless times...but this is a first.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] Frozzie 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach 5 points 1 year ago

feature length

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's about how old I am, yeah.

[–] ramenshaman 5 points 1 year ago

They should bring this back with chat GPT integrated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I still hear the modulated voice in my head

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

...yes 😭

[–] waigl 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was already old when those were new.

[–] agent_flounder 15 points 1 year ago

I, too, miss the days of ASCII art.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

The sad thing is this ain't that old.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Fades 5 points 1 year ago

And who could forget

wololo

[–] Rotten_potato 4 points 1 year 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.

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[–] Pregnenolone 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Delphia 27 points 1 year ago

I was online before the cat wanted a cheeseburger.

[–] GrammatonCleric 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] havokdj 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't you be getting to bed, grandpa?

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

Can't, gotta fix these network servers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Etterra 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Dedwin 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a computah stop all the downloadin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mmm body massage machine GO!

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

Always get these songs in mind when I see them Trololo

[–] ramenshaman 10 points 1 year ago

This era of memes > current era of memes

[–] fne8w2ah 9 points 1 year ago

First term of Obama old.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I remember when the internet started

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

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

Schfifty five

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

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

[–] CreativeShotgun 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

I grew up around the mlg meme era

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

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

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