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Classic Memes From the Internet That Crashed on Its Very First Word

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Everybody has sent a text that cut off halfway and looked completely unhinged. On this day in 1969, the very first internet message was supposed to say login, and the system crashed after two letters. Every afternoon I dig up classic memes from the decades of nonsense that followed, and yesterday’s trip through the vault set a high bar. Here is the next stack, no crashes so far.

Phone, wallet, keys and an orange cat under a caption about a mini heart attack.

The cat is always the last one you check.

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Classic memes group chat where Hector only replies after a shouting Achilles image from Troy.
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Wet baby lynx with enormous paws standing on a porch beside white railings.

Built from spare parts and confidence.

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Classic memes tweet about a delivery excuse and a dog that reports every leaf.
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Oil painting of a Skyrim dragon overhead while hands hold an energy drink and cigarette.
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Tweet about attempting a yo mama joke while being far too empathetic to finish it.

Kindest roast ever delivered.

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Average American family basement starterpack with old couch, pool table and treadmill, classic memes staple.
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Tumblr post about answering what time it is with a giant granite sundial.
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Jail food dilemma with hot dog tiramisu, ranch cereal, bean cheesecake and mayo ice cream.

Ranch cereal. Final answer, unfortunately.

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Star Trek Enterprise in space with a caption about basic IT security, classic memes pick.
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Text from a confused boyfriend in the tampon aisle asking about sport or secret agent.
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Green cup tipped over on a wood floor with a pixelated jpeg compression spill.

My old phone camera, every single photo.

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Classic memes take on dating profiles, a TV vampire listing his very modest expectations.
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Tweet about dentists saying something alarming to the nurse, then telling you all healthy.
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Anime edit of a man smirking beside a giant foot, about metric users visiting America.

The unit of measurement nobody asked for.

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Dark humor tweet about a childhood acquaintance who had Benjamin Button disease.
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Classic memes Reddit post asking for the healthiest cigarette with a European fitness mindset.
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Blurry bear reading a book, captioned about learning new things from exam questions.

Studied zero hours, learned plenty.

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Classic memes tweet about a crude Burnout Paradise webcam feature, plus PS3 printer settings.
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Tweet about cheap movie matinees getting misheard as something about manatees.
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Boba Fett boasting about riding beasts ten times its size, then adding a mom joke.

Bounty hunter, part-time roast comic.

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Classic memes favorite: an eyeliner review from someone whose makeup survived a car accident.
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Tweet about panicking on a first date after hearing women like being asked questions.
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Hand holding a blue Gatorade, captioned as the coldest possible hangover cure.

Every hangover has a flavor, and it is blue.

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Classic memes tweet realizing Scooby-Doo can't talk well after meeting a fluent talking dog.
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Half of these are old memes I could recite in my sleep, and the baby lynx still gets me every single time. The jail menu question has ruined two group chats I am in, and I picked ranch cereal both times without blinking. The Hector group chat is still one of the best memes ever made about work, and I will not be taking questions. Plenty of these started as viral tweets from people who should have logged off hours earlier, and I say that as someone who never does, including tonight.

Another round of vintage memes shows up tomorrow afternoon, same time, same chair, assuming nothing crashes after two letters. Until then, yesterday’s meme dump is a fresh pile for the other half of your brain, and the classic memes from Windows XP week still load faster than my laptop. If one of these took you straight back to the family computer desk, hit the share button below and send it to whoever used to fight you for the chair while the dial-up screeched.

Who needs to see this?

Send it to the friend who’ll laugh the hardest, or post it for everyone.

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.

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