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25 Classic Memes From Back When You Carried Four Gadgets at Once

Phil M. Oct 18, 2026 04:00 PM EDT

Before one phone did everything, leaving the house meant packing an iPod, a digital camera, a phone with a slide out keyboard and a PSP like some kind of field medic. My jeans never recovered, and honestly neither did I. Yesterday’s sick day classics set the mood, and this daily trip through classic memes digs a little deeper into the old stuff. Charger not included.

Fluffy cat sitting on a rug in classic memes, captioned we are out of waffles Dave — Dave has some explaining to do.
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Tweet about growing up to use two factor authentication for fast food reward points — Save

Red iPod nano, PSP, blue digital camera and pink Sidekick phone from the 2000s — The charger drawer still has all four cables.
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Classic memes tweet about dogs taking treats to the other room for privacy — Save

Parent says their kid pointed at a creepy muscular sculpture and called it dada — Somewhere a dad just started doing crunches.
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Woman blowing her nose in classic memes about missing the days your nose worked — Save

Tweet joking that PS2 games came with a pizza roll holder, shown inside a case — Snack included, disc slightly greasy.
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Drake smiling with hands on hips while agreeing to plans he will sleep through — Save

Annual reminder in classic memes that Yukon Cornelius carried a blade, revolver and tools — Dressed for the North Pole and a bar fight.
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Woman at a red carpet event captioned hating study, work and life itself — Save

Classic memes tweet asking why invasive capybaras won't invade their backyard to be petted — Save

Three photos of a cat following someone room to room just to ignore them — My cat does this at the bathroom door.
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Tweet about hating clichés until the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one — Save

Wild horse galloping at sunset in classic memes, captioned you've colonized my heart, white boy — Save

Text asking to lady and the tramp a huge sausage in two buns — Wrong person, right hot dog.
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Classic memes reaction of a dark creature staring, captioned with a crude toilet joke — Save

Tweet about melting five Butterfingers together to make a butterfist — Save

Classic memes tweet showing a dispensary worker a scary movie still like a barber reference — Save

Flip flop strapped to a belt, labeled one of the banned weapons too brutal for war — Every mom's first strike capability.
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Ed Harris in The Truman Show beneath a joke about engineering a post office line — Save

Classic memes tweet calling a can fish, microwave, soup sign Philip K. Dick's worst novel — Do Androids Dream of Can Fish?
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Head drawing with Halloween cookies in place of a brain, asking what's on your mind — Save

Eleven from Stranger Things in a hospital gown, a dad joke about packing too much — I packed nine shirts for two nights.
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Classic memes story of a construction foreman's mom sending homemade burritos to a curious neighbor — Save

Homer Simpson lying on the couch petting a cat as the answer to fun hobbies — Save

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That gadget photo is a full tour of my teenage years, and I can still hear the PSP startup sound if I close my eyes. A lot of these old memes have outlived the devices I first saw them on, which is impressive and a little rude. The pizza roll holder is how every PS2 case should have shipped. The cat checking sightlines is still one of the best memes about pets ever made, and I say that as someone whose cat is doing it to me right now from the hallway.

More vintage memes and viral tweets arrive tomorrow afternoon, right when Monday starts to feel extra long. In the meantime, today’s meme dump has the first cold weather jokes of the season, and Thursday’s drive home classics still hold up better than the traffic did. If one of these sent you digging through a drawer for an old charger, share the post with the friend who still has a working iPod and will not stop telling you about it.

Red iPod nano and red PSP from the 2000s side by side, the gadget photo in today's classic memes

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Posted by Phil M. About the author

Phil co-founded Thunder Dungeon with Roy in 2012 and has been a meme tastemaker ever since, helping turn a page of funny finds into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and a daily home for memes. He's more than memes, too: Phil is an award-winning comedic actor and director whose feature films are on streaming platforms.