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Antique Memes Roadshow

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 86 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Mushroom... Mushroom....

Oh God...

[–] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ohhhh its a snaaakeeee

Ohhhhh its a snake

Its a

Badger

Badger

Badger

... Still loving it and already showed it to my kids

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

My first memes were all in ascii art.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

I still remember seeing those for the first time, right up there with hearing dr. sbaitso and the wav2pc speaker app.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago

Mine were PETSCII using C-64 graphical codes from shifted letters. I had an animated signature line on one BBS of the Enterprise that would redraw it, making it warp out to the side of the screen. It works well because of the slow baud rate. :D