Friday nights used to start with one big decision: what to put in your AIM away message so everyone knew you had plans. I usually did not have plans. I would set it anyway and check every ten minutes to see who had messaged me back. Every afternoon we dust off a fresh stack of classic memes, and if yesterday’s sick day batch kept you on the couch, this one gets you sitting up.
The dial tone of pure determination.
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Did you know, at 2am, unprompted.
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Cowabunga, but business casual.
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Sketti respect, immediately and forever.
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Every car, every summer, that era.
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Unreadable, which means legit.
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Riddle me this, indeed.
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He deserved the apology.
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Safety third, glamour first.
SaveThe guy calling from a payphone after getting blocked everywhere is the most determined man in the whole set, quarters ready, and I respect his commitment to old technology. These old memes are the internet version of an away message with song lyrics in it: a little embarrassing, deeply sincere and somehow still funny twenty years later. Mine was a quote from a movie I had not even seen. The cemetery that sells honey labeled Rest in Bees has my full support, and the disco ball welding hood is going straight onto my birthday list.
Fresh throwbacks show up tomorrow afternoon for the weekend, right on schedule. If you need the newer stuff, yesterday’s meme dump is waiting, and the mall edition from last Saturday has more viral tweets and some of the best memes from back when ten dollars felt like a fortune. If anything here made you want to dust off your old screen name, share the post with the buttons below and let your friends try to guess what yours was, though mine had an underscore and the number 4.
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