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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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    green penguin (she/they) <333
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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. 

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    Ty Stratton-Quirk
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    moggie63
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It'd be interesting watching somebody run the 100m in 4 seconds and explode just past the finish line.

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    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. 

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    Jason
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd rather have a 35+ where it's pretty chill and quiet. Everyone is welcome. Got good restaurants and low-key stuff to do. Also no internet connectivity so I can get some relaxing in. Age limit not enforced just a lifestyle choice.

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    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. 

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    Rizzo
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    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. 

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    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. 

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    Maggie
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A man thought he was too old for university and said, 'when I graduate I'll be 42 years old', so his friend said to him, 'how old will you be if you don't graduate?'.

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    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. 

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    Tim Nicebutdim
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    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. 

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    Panda Kicki
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Took me a minute, but the mother is right 🤣, stay off crazy astro persons.

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    Donkeywheel
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    SheamusFanFrom1987
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Bella
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Usually it's not for a lack of ability but things like extreme exhaustion or injuries that they are needed for! There was an incident during an aerobic routine that a coach saved the olympic swimmer just last year.

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    Colin
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Greg Louganis smacked his head during a dive and the life guard had to pull him out. 1988 Olympics I believe.

    Renegade
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched that live. There was a big hullabaloo because he had to disclose is positive HIV status which was a huge deal at the time.

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    AJJ
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to lifeguard swim meets and practices. Read about shallow water blackout.

    Waddling Land Fish (She/her)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And? Lifeguarding still takes a different level of training than competitive swimming. Even without the swimming differences, I doubt many of the competitors are trained in CPR and first aid.

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    Wednesday
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    5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be a rare and terribly exciting thing for a lifeguard to have to jump in the pool at the Olympics. I mean there's spectacle and then there's spectacle.

    Mary Peace
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But surely he's being paid to be there, so does he mind if he does nothing all day?

    olaff 422
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you feel useless, there is still someone in your hometown that thinks they're a rapper.

    Peta Warren
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of those life guards saved a synchronised swimmer who had a medical emergency.

    Ellie Ahmed
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dunno, remember "Eric the Eel" from the 2000 Olympics? He was from some country that are not normally known for their swimming prowess and it turned out that he never actually swum in an Olympic-sized pool before. He did finish the race (very slowly) but I'm pretty sure through the last lap when he started becoming visibly exhausted and looked like he wasn't going to make it the lifeguards were getting pretty twitchy

    Jaybird3939
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A synchronized swimmer passed out during her routine (something with oxygen of course). Her COACH had to jump in and save her. You had ONE job lifeguard!!

    Cory Holliday
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not that a great swimmer can't drown, it's more that there's all eyes on them and a whole platoon of great swimmers nearby, you would really hope that they would be saved without needing a dedicated lifegaurd

    Mickie Shea
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least she gets to observe nearly naked young men in smaller than tiny whities.

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    Not sure he takes it that seriously as he has not even bothered to put his suit on

    C Cat
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's wearing swim trunks and a shirt... I'm sure it's cold just sitting there, you want him to not wear a shirt ?

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    Jesse Setliffe
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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."

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    Thom Serveaux
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Chris D'Asta
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Stephen Andrews
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have hired you on the spot. Someone that thinks that fast 100% deserves a job.

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    Passerby
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It sure feels illegal. It is also sometimes hard to decide of you are sick enough.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You must understand them. After naming literally dozens of birds, fantasy runs out and you start with simple names. Then you get bored and get silly, so you start naming stuff "Tit", "Woodcock", "Shag", "Booby" etc

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    😳 fascinating… had a look, they spread those 15 episodes out over 5 years.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    SadieCat17
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See that's kind of an a*****e move if the letter was written politely. Why can't we just be nice to each other instead of being petty for a chuckle?

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    Kev Pau
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh. Stop saying anything is the N word for anything. Also. That reply is awesome

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    James Edwards
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They left the first part out. The blue was selling something and gray was trying to low ball him.

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    Jason
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhh I was finally able to get off the streets. Ate ramen forever but would make it fancy so I felt like a king. My favorite was adding sour cream to the beef one.

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    EmBree
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find it ironic that the US uses the caduceus as a symbol for medical care when it might as well be a symbol for liars and thieves. "The caduceus is the traditional symbol of Hermes and features two snakes winding around an often winged staff. It is often used as a symbol of medicine, especially in the United States, despite its ancient and consistent associations with trade, liars, thieves, eloquence, negotiation, alchemy, and wisdom."

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