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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
All good with these coming back, but let's keep the racist puffin in the past.
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.
I miss the simpler days
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?
Memecenter dweller?
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