I wish I had saved some of the super niche memes from back in my days on the Penny-Arcade and usenet forums I frequented in the late 90’s up until about graduating high school. I suspect many of them would be confusing as shit even when they weren’t in-jokes centered around those specific communities just because they’re like ancient Egyptian to these more 18th century aged memes.
I miss philosoraptor
I miss the simpler days
I don’t get half of the comments. Ragecomic boomer here.
I dunno if you can claim Boomer if rage-comics were your time; maybe Gen-X?
I had to blow the dust off this one https://conanzeromus.ytmnd.com/
Jesus Christ, I can’t believe ytmnd is still around
Speaking of ancient memes I showed this to my teen the other day and they didn’t even begin to understand.
Hmm, wired earbuds (RIP) and the phone with buttons dates it a bit, but captchas are still around (and infidelity). Although, I’m seeing less and less of the distorted text kind these days.
I haven’t seen a captcha like that in years and my teen didn’t even understand it as a captcha at all. If you’re still seeing those I’m definitely curious where.
Uhh, I’m thinking I’ve had to fill them out to read scientific papers at some point recently. Maybe other more web 1.0 type pages, although most of them are moving over to the Cloudflare JavaScript checkbox service.
There was a time when memes were just dudes fighting snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts.
𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔬𝔬𝔱𝔥! 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡. ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢.
Whoa, do you know where this is from?
All good with these coming back, but let’s keep the racist puffin in the past.
There was a time when all memes were demotivational posters.
I CAN’T HANG IN THERE TIL FRIDAY
THAT’S OK, YOU’RE WORKING SATURDAY TOO
Despair.com (apparently still around!) was my go-to back in the day for those
I miss those
It was a more civilized age back then…
We where supposed to build the future.
Got addicted to memes instead.
Sorry Gen Z
Ate too many Avocado Toasts for it and forgot to shake the job tree with all the jobs for us.
But those memes though
Wait, TikTok wasn’t supposed to be the whole future? /s
Successful black man where have you been?
Trump has been in office. He went into hiding.
Venezuela.
There are no successful black men, and we’ll prove it by making sure they leave the country.
There was a time when all memes were le text
What the fuck did you just call me? *holds up spork*
I am le tired of that.
Well go take a nap, and then le text all the memes
Back when racism was at least thinly veiled…
I always saw it as mocking racists, but with the power of hindsight I guess it’s a real Schrödinger’s racist situation.
Dumbasses not understanding irony, same as it ever was
Agree. The whole point is to lean into a racist stereotype, and then subvert it.
I miss the veil
