The older the internet gets, the more it’s like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What’s is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

  • Linda R@nord.pub
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    2 days ago

    The original versions of a lot of Weebl’s Stuff things.
    Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger…badgerbadger, mushroom mushroom! Salad Fingers.

    And yes, of course AYBABTU. Move zig move zig!

    Ro***n.com

    Then there’s We Like The Moon.
    And cowswithguns.swf
    And im_a_cow.swf

    And of course the world used to be so much more 1337. It meant something that the clock was showing 13:37. Now that means nothing to people :(

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      2 days ago

      The badger song has permanent processing space in my brain. It will play whenever I am exceptionally bored and waiting for something. I often have to suppress the urge to badger dance.

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        Also, why was everything full of cows back then? It felt so natural for every third meme to reference cows that I never even questioned it back then.

        What has changed? Why are cows no longer inherently funny?

      • Linda R@nord.pub
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        I had forgotten about this one!

        Something important is lost when these videos are no longer easy to loop forever. Especially the way Badgerbadgerbadger eventually went out of sync if you kept playing it for a couple tens of minutes.