Yeah, I’m sitting here like “memes? Motherfucker most people didn’t have internet in '94”. The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.
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lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months agoBytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn’t even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.
I am not saying social media hasn’t had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn’t the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.
warbond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Our copy of doom had a handwritten label
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Legit.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s hard to find any fault in you for that. I’m so sorry you had to go through that situation, but I’m glad you’re still here with us. You are stronger than most.
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
“All your base are belong to us” is from the like '92
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
From Know Your Meme:
So, the saying DOES come from 1992, but the internet meme formation did not happen until 1998.
I was wrong of when that meme started, but I do remember the meme when I was playing ROBLOX in 2008. Also, memes use to last a lot longer then they do now as well. But thank you for correctly correcting me 👍
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah… I’m that old man on the porch yelling about how you kids read about that shit, but I lived through it. Of course there wasn’t a meme of it in 1992 because 56 kbps was considered blazing fast internet. You could literally watch an image being drawn line by line in your web browser. Our main form of social media back then was a fucking mixtape.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did not reach widespread knowledge until 2001
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Memes weren’t a thing in 92. Or their rough equivalent certainly weren’t called memes.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No but there was ASCII art and image macros. They just didn’t really have a name.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Before 2003ish, they were called “fads”! At least on YTMND, and SA.