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Requesting OLD memes/popular images
For a project I'm working on please give me your oldest oldhead internet bites
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>>1577861
https://knowyourmeme.com/
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>>1577862
I've already got everything I need from there, looking for more obscure stuff some people might have
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>>1577861
https://macrochan.org/tagTree.php
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Pic related is Looty/Lootie, an ancient oldfag meme from hurricane Katrina. The source of many creative photoshops.
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>>1577861
this is from 2011/12 /b/ era, still wouldnt consider it old school but i didnt save much from before
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>>1577861
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>>1577861
This is as old as it comes, dancing baby from 1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby

If you want pre-internet memes, check out Kilroy Was Here (a simple face and slogan written all over the world by US GIs during WWII) and 23 Skidoo, which was effectively 67 (number based nonsense slogan) but all the way back in 1906
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_skidoo
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>all your base
>The penguin of doom
>Epic fail guy
>Advice dog
>Slowpoke
>Imma firin' mah laz0r
>I'm in ur base killing ur d00ds
>Call up GameStop and ask if they have Battletoads
>Newfags can't triforce
>That fucking cat
>GIRUGAMESH
>Roflcopter

Same genre:
>How to make cool crystals
>Delete System32
>Apple Wave

Sources:
>AVGN, TGWTG, TVTropes, Cracked.com, YTMND, Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Something Awful, ebaumsworld, I Can Haz Cheezburger, LOLcats

Other millennial stuff:
>Weird Al Yankovic, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Whitest Kids u'Know, The Lonely Island

A bonus interesting fact: Poland uses "xD" constantly up to today even though the rest of the internet barely uses it

Also if you want the deep lore, check out this 4chan history page: https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History
And absolutely do not under any circumstances include Milhouse
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>>1578067
>And absolutely do not under any circumstances include Milhouse
Milhouse himself isn't a meme, but the phrase "Milhouse is not a meme" is.
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>>1578065
At least 23 and skidoo seemed to originally mean something, 6 7 is gibberish.

5150 is a great album BTW.
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I'm just now realizing that a good number of pics I saved from 2006-07 /b/ are nsfw and thus can't be posted here.
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>>1577925
This is a goldmine thank you
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>>1578067 here again, I have more

>I did it for the lulz
>A winrar is you
>The internet is a series of tubes
>DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
>Ron Paul, /b/
>Exploding yellow van + internet hate machine
>Who is this 4chan?
>The hacker known as 4chan
>JEWS DID 9/11
>Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
>You must construct additional pylons

Also, a thought: go on Encyclopedia Dramatica and look for GETs. A lot of old memes come from GETs, like "lol internet" which was the 100,000 GET on /b/
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>>1578086
I'd argue it's as meaningful as 67 when you combine "23" and "skidoo" together. 67 was originally a(n admittedly stupid) hip hop lyric, it wasn't just a kid saying the numbers out of thin air. Which again is pretty crazy that there was a very popular post ironic meme in the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.

Also OP, I remembered another (literally) ancient meme. It's a so called "Sator Square". It was a palindrome thing found throughout the early Roman Empire and it goes
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
Which roughly translates to "Sator the farmer uses and works his wheels [likely metonymy for plow]". Theories range from it being a magic charm, to an early Christian dogwhistle, to just being a catchy thing to write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square
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>>1578152
*Arepo the farmer use and works his wheels
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World war II meme coming through
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>>1578173
In the UK during rationing, they used to draw the same lil guy and he would always say, "wot no bananas?" or "wot no milk?" or whatever was lacking at the time



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