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2007 wasn’t early internet lol.
Early internet’s most famous meme was probably either hamster dance or dancing baby. All Your Base wasn’t long after.
That toaster cat shitting rainbows!
Edit or the beep beep frog with the schlong
Edit edit: guess that last one was a whole video...not a meme
Re: peanut butter jelly time - my 8 year old picked it up somewhere along the way and is one of his favorite songs now.
Nyan Cat
That's quite recent still tho
See the edit edit edit edit...
I mean there were even fax machine "memes". Checkout Faxlore if you weren't around at the time.
Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.
I miss the days of looping flash videos. The Badger Song, The Llama Song, Magical Trevor, etc. Those defined my childhood.
Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers mushroom mushroom
Here's a llama, there's a llama and another little llama
But I'm le tired...
Okay, have a nap.
THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
even this is pretty late-stage flash content. We must go deeper.
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For sure dancing baby. Was shared as an attachment on emails even before YouTube was a thing
Nuhuh.
True early internet meme was pics from Madonna's coffee table book. Iykyk.
Ron Livingston playing piano as a cat.
He was imitating this video which went viral before his.
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