We might think of the internet as this newfangled bit of technology, but in practice, it’s been around so long that some moments have gone down in history and should be identified and secured so as to not get lost in the endless sea of content that is on the internet.
The “internet hall of fame” Twitter account gathers posts, tweets, and screenshots that deserve to be preserved and commemorated for future generations. So get comfy and prepare to visit a selection of all-time greats as you scroll. Make sure to upvote your favorite posts below and comment your own thoughts below.
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i'm pretty sure there were days when i did not leave the couch for 13 hours but i think that's a me problem
Sitting pretty at 1.8M followers, the Internet Hall Of Fame is undoubtedly quite popular with people who want to stay on top of Internet lore and history. As internet usage becomes ubiquitous, the sheer amount of content continues to grow and grow making it literally impossible for one person to consume it all.
For example, just Youtube, not counting any other video hosting sites and platforms, has approximately 800 million videos, with an average video being about 11.7 minutes in length. Some enthusiasts did the math, which amounts to roughly 17,810 years of consecutive watching to just finish youtube.
The guy who spends upwards of eight hours wearing a mask in a steam-filled kitchen, washing dishes in the heat of summer agrees with Soledad.
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that there is a lot more than just Youtube out there. The result is that taking a break from social media usage can feel disorienting when one returns. New events, memes, heroes and villains are being discussed, sometimes with vocabulary and jokes that are already unfamiliar. The internet has its own form of FOMO, where missing a specific story feels downright bad.
This is why pages like “the internet hall of fame” exist, not so much as to preserve, as a Twitter account preserving Twitter content is a bit redundant, but as a way to filter important or particularly popular posts away from the ocean of mundane, everyday content. Gone are the days when something viral meant that everyone could see it, now hugely popular media can be simultaneously unknown to significant segments of the population.
I am a despicable human being because I do the same thing with my wife. It's the old good cop - bad cop game and I am always the good cop.
This is totally me and my husband! Lol... I've been in the auto industry for nearly 30 years... and he knows nothing about cars, everyone in his family thinks it's a hoot that I "take care" of the "car stuff" lol
Load More Replies...As I quiet, laidback man who married a fiery, talkative redhead. Because without her I'd be agoraphobic lonely shut-in. With her there is always something interesting to watch or listen to.
And without you she'd lack someone to share those things with. A match made in heaven!
Load More Replies...Makes me think of the problem of husbands not being able to find things and then crouching in the shadows like Gollum thinking: "We could ... let *her* do it..."
I'm too polite (blame my parents) but I adore brash girls who will speak up with abandon when I don't have the social standing to do so and they, somehow, believe they do.
Lol not my woman but this is my sister and I. I'll do without mashed potatoes to prevent negative attention, but better believe she's going to say that I ordered mashed taters 😂
As a quiet, laid back person I love that I found my loud, outgoing husband. I enjoy getting out SO much more now that I know I don't have to make small talk. *shudder* He loves chatting with people. I can just sit back, laugh, add a comment when I actually have something to say and people watch.
There are also quiet, laid back men who go for quiet, laid back women. We stay at home.
This was me and my late fiancé. We would just stuff from an app at 2am and he’d get a text to pick it up. At 2am in Las Cruces..we usually picked Jack in the Box after smoking a bowl. Since we were already chill…and the weed makes us more chill…we were just happy that after an hour or so when we remembered..”Hey didn’t we order Fanta and Jack in the Box tacos ???” Yeah. Good times. Lol
Load More Replies...well he outta luck w me cuz im fiery but i sure as hell am socially awkward when it comes to servers cuz i dont want them to have a worse day than they alrdy did
Can confirm gotta be spicy for my fiance some times cause he doesnt realize when hes being taken advantage of sometimes
Just showed this to my husband and he's very excited our relationship is a meme lol
Myhusband's favorite song was "Hard Headed Woman." He said he was very happy that he had one.
Genetic, opposites attract. One of the questions my psychiatrist asked to determine if I had ADD was, Is your wife a secretary and then started to expand on it. I said, Bookkeeper. He stopped in midsentence. My wife handles what she knows the procedures for, which is a lot, and I handle the rest the best I can without complaint. As our kids grew up, the family environment was stable and functional. It still is.
My husband let's me do the bargaining. He'd just pay the price displayed.
You don't need to be rude you know? Hell, you don't even need to be stern. Just wave the waiter over and let them know you got the wrong side or whatever. They're, 99 times out of 100, more than happy to help, because mistakes happen, and if you aren't an a*****e about it, then it should go smoothly.
Something tells me you aren't socially anxious or introverted
Load More Replies...While the account is more tongue-in-cheek, as the content is mostly humorous, with a few profound and unhinged moments, it does, perhaps accidentally, raise an important question regarding preservation. While Twitter is and is likely to remain a predominant social media platform, it’s entirely possible that massive amounts of content, posts, jokes, and art could all disappear should someone trip over the wrong wire.
When people think of preserving digital content, the focus tends to be on art, or at least endeavors that are more similar to the media normally digitized, like old films and books. But why not take a conscious effort to preserve content like this beyond the servers of one company? As silly and unserious as most of it is, future linguists and anthropologists would no doubt love to see the direct text from people of the past.
While that might seem far-fetched, there is already a lot of popular internet content around the idea of what people of the past thought and wrote. Take a complaint from ancient Babylonian bureaucrats. “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.” Thousands of years later, it is just as relatable to anyone having to deal with stubborn managers.
In fairness the gospels were written after Jesus died so unreliable and Judas sold all the VHS tapes the disciples took for even more silver, then the guy who bought them recorded the Golden Girls over them so there's no actual record any more.
A real tragedy is that so much significant text, ideas, and conversations are all lost to time because they were never written down. Now that we have the technology, we would be doing those who come after us a disservice not to document as much of our popular culture as possible. At the very least, it might help answer some confusing questions and eliminate the sort of myths we no doubt make about the past.
Took me a minute, but the mother is right 🤣, stay off crazy astro persons.
Also and above all: won the gas&oil lottery and thus is rich as f**k. Norway is basically a democratic and egalitarian Gulf country.
I'm seeing this so much that I have a question: Can I please sit with him at the crock pot and share the buffalo dip? Very honestly speaking, I haven't even tasted buffalo sauce before.
No it's, "You need to sit in a room all day doing nothing with over a hundred other people. We could give you fifteen bucks, but you don't want that right? You want to differ that. Chance of COVID? Yeah, but don't worry about it."
I used to be the "main character" like this at a bar I went to. I've married the bartender and now we have our own little spinoff.
Go slow. With anything, test the natural receptors in your body. Eat a half of a gummy, eat a stem and cap of shrooms. Wait. Gauge your bodies' response. Be careful and have good friends around.
I would have hired you on the spot. Someone that thinks that fast 100% deserves a job.
Alright, let's go. Word has an F-ton of functions and options that few people even know about. Moving an image is easy, if you know how to do it and tweak the options a bit. PDFs are literally made to be non-editable once saved. It is so they can be safe for storing important documents. Ever wandered why all stores send you bill in a PDF version? It's so you cannot edit it and do scams. Also there are few other programs that can edit them. So if you don't know how to use Word, don't blame the program for your incompetence. If you managed to read it all the way here, thank you for your attention and apologies for the rant. XD
My man if what I do in my real life had any reflection of what I do in my dreams, I'd be out there fighting dragons with pet armadillo's, scouring castles looking for a ghost that owed me money and raising a single chicken in a barn that aliens visited but apparently didn't really like.
And this kids is why you don't believe everything you see on the internet
I'm just here to check if the "I also choose this guy's dead wife" gem is included.
This stuff always makes me laugh! Nice after a 10 hour day! Was kinda missing the one where the guy went back to a bar that he was banned from years ago and as soon as he walked in, the bartender was like, get the hell outta here [guy's name]!!
probably only a couple of these were new to me, the rest is the same stuff that gets posted on every site
Welcome to to bored panda lol where the memes are stale and literally ancient
Load More Replies...I'm just here to check if the "I also choose this guy's dead wife" gem is included.
This stuff always makes me laugh! Nice after a 10 hour day! Was kinda missing the one where the guy went back to a bar that he was banned from years ago and as soon as he walked in, the bartender was like, get the hell outta here [guy's name]!!
probably only a couple of these were new to me, the rest is the same stuff that gets posted on every site
Welcome to to bored panda lol where the memes are stale and literally ancient
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