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Antique Memes Roadshow

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Submissions should be vintage memes or commentary about vintage memes. Commenters are advised to appraise the internet value and provenance meme antiquities.

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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.world 125 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IIRC, even those "recent" pictures are old πŸ˜…

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Gregorian calendar is from 1582

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Yeah and we’re missing 10 days ever since

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago

Time gets away from us all.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I must not be that old, I don't see the memes of my generation. Philosoraptor will never be old.

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 72 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago

Oh man, I never realized philosoraptor was a digimon! He's EVOLVED! But into a bone thing? Was he evil the entire time!?!

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

Advice dog got so old it went to the park and never came back

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you think that's bad, you should see I Can Haz Cheezburger cat today

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i just checked, HappyCat hasn't aged a dayHappyCat on transparent background, no text

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Taxidermy is an underappreciated art

Nope, Chuck Testa.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My 202026 resolution is to get meme famous so people can feel hella old in 10 years when I will surely look like a withered ghost of my former self.

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 22 points 3 days ago

Decent goal. Smart of you to give yourself 200,000 years to achieve it too.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 3 days ago

I'm pretty sure 200000 years from now you'll look fairly old already

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My 202026 resolution

Well you better get on it, you only have 200000 years to practice!

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...the fuck happened to the world. Why do I perceive old people as less competent than young ones. It should be the other way around, what the hell managed to switch my perception so much.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 26 points 3 days ago

Harold got my back

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago

I don't need to see these to make me feel old...

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I believe before those we just used and remembered disgusting images like tubgirl.

Well or ASCII art of trolls with fishes.

I guess there just wasn't enough bandwidth to send images around and not many platforms supporting images or hosting them. Traffic and bandwidth where expensive

[–] addie@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago

Goatse and LemonParty also had very short URL links to their images, so you could sneak in the <img src= bit into a comment field that only allowed like, fifty characters, and still have some room for a bit of text too.

NVR4GET

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Let's not forget ASCII Bambi vs. Godzilla.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aliens guy def got a cryo pod from the aliens

I miss the Scumbag Steve days. Was a much better time. With all this AI nonsense I’ll never forgive them for what they took from us!

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

Brian just lost the braces, otherwise he hasn't changed at all.

Laina wins there