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
And some of us worked 14 hour days without a break for 18 months trying to keep businesses afloat so that there were still jobs for people to come back to. Some Healthcare workers and essential store employees were literally putting their lives on the line. Don’t mean to sound bitter and twisted but these posts annoy the hell out of me. Not everyone was baking bread and dancing.
I actually came here to say this. My lockdown experience was work all day + homeschooling x 3 young boys + worrying about money because my partner was not getting paid because he could not work while at home.
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Nope. I had to work all that time. And I was a bit jealous for all the people who could stay at home and do all the fun stuff.
Same here!!! Was even harder trying to get food etc with so little spare time :(
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Ahh. The good ole days when my girlfriend and I told everyone we had Covid so they'd stay away. Bliss.
I worked the whole time so I didn't get to make any plants or dance with any bread.
F**k it, grab a loaf of bread and get to dancing. Nobody going to say s**t.
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My hubby turned his new plant hobby into a beautiful thriving garden out in our backyard!
As a farmer, I didn’t have that luxury. My work load almost tripled because we had so many employees with kids take sabbaticals.
Remember all the parents having to help homeschool their little angels who could do no wrong and who were, en masses, talking about how "now I see! Imagine a whole class of this! Teachers should be more valued!"? Well, well... amnesia sets in pretty quick, it seems.
Nope. But I wish I could have. Instead, I was working nonstop as an essential employee with no hazard pay and after a few months, I actually caught Covid. I completely blame my former place of employment for forcing us to work even when it was obvious some of the employees had it. Looking back, it's pretty obvious they didn't care about any of us. So naturally, I returned the favor by not caring about the company up until the day I resigned.
I hated lockdown (UK) I was my worst self. I felt like a bad mum and a bad employee and I was so depressed and sad and stressed. I'm sorry, but I'm glad that's all over.
Same here. Well done for making it through all that.
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Nope. Sure don't. I was working 15 HR days. Quarantine was exactly like every other day of my capitalist nightmare life. Only with the added bonus of quite possible death.
Not me -- I waS WORKING TWO ESSENTIAL JOBS AND VOLUNTEERING AT er-- DID ENJOY THE LACK OF TRAFFIC-- WHY DONTCHAS ALL GO BACK INSIDE?
I remember when thousands of small businesses were forced to shut down, lives we're destroyed, mental health took an enormous drop and the already super high suicide rate among teens sky rocketed even further all while the politicians continued to with and make money off their voters suffering. I also remember the 1% saying "we're all in this together," and those that fought against the lockdowns were treated like scum only to eventually be found out masks and lockdowns don't work later but never given an apology.
As a healthcare worker in a long term care facility, lockdowns and masks meant that very few of our elderly residents got Covid. It was a Godsend.
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My partner and I took train rides in many countries via Youtube, nice to see the sights. We'd even log on to Google Street View and explore some areas.
I live in Sweden. No lockdowns, no masks, restaurants and shops mostly open, life more or less like they used to for the majority.
I actually heard of some controversy surrounding Sweden's handling of the pandemic, including elderly people being administered morphine instead of oxygen, resulting in their deaths. Epidemiologist Nele Brusselears co-authored a paper highlighting Sweden's failures in its COVID response. Not to say that many other countries didn't also drop the ball, because they certainly did. I live in one of them.
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Remember wild animals returning to the streets and the waters of Venice getting so clean that you could see the canal floor? Heck, it kinda confirmed that it only takes removing people to make things better...
I work at a pharmacy...so no, I never got to experience that. Just people waiting in line for toilet paper as we put it out, screaming at each other about whether others should be wearing masks or not, and probably the most surprising part was how grateful and nice people were about getting the Covid vaccine. Usually, people are just mean and inpatient.
There were times when I learned and did new things, but there was also a lot of time when I was horribly depressed. And I got pet rats ^.^
You mean when I sat around and did nothing l? And then felt really bad about myself that ball these other people were starting garden's and learning hobbies and baking bread? No thanks
Now everyone is needed back at the office. No more sitting at hame and working in your pyjamas. Back to reality.
Um no, I and hundreds of thousands of other "essential" workers were putting our lives in danger every day so you could go buy video games at walmart
No, some of us were in survival mode for the whole pandemic. I wish I could relate...
My job is essential, so I didn't experience that. And when I'm not working I'm a homebody, So really, aside from being more tense at work, nothing changed for me.
I live with my mum (82) and daughter so I spent most of that time worrying that mum would get covid and die. ☹️
I only got a month off so no I don't really know what that was like. I sat in a house office with two other people twiddling my thumbs because the majority of our clients were dentists so not really considered essential most stayed closed and others stayed open. I also had a Chem lab during the summer school was definitely open, but it was weird being in an empty school. And I worked a second job in retail luckily I was able to give most or those shifts to others who needed the shifts, but man that was some of the worst retail experiences I had.
I'm a security guard, we were considered essential. I worked the whole lock down.
"dancing" okay yes but ballet class in the living room was NOT fun
This, all of this!!! It deserves many more upvotes. It was a glimpse, and I cannot fathom why we're giving it up again. We'll, I'm not, but yeah. I started a farm and I'm never looking back!! (50X100 ft garden, raising chickens and turkeys.), been fighting to get back to this life for 20 years, never ever giving it up
I was still working as an "essential employee". Just seeing all of the long grass, wild animals, singing birds, new baby birds and baby animals all over the place, bright blue skies and no traffic made me wish that the rapture was real.
I know! It's fun how we all were so into plantss!! and it feels like we are connecting more to ourselves and surroundings.
I tried enjoying life but the anxiety of living through the film Contagion reduced me to a speechless blob who laid on the couch every day. It did get me out of having to see people, though, which was nice.
Those were the simplest days of my life so far. I kind of wish we could go back.
No, I was an essential worker, so what I remember was teaching 7 classes with 14 lesson plans a day to accommodate both in-person and online students, and trying to teach both groups simultaneously. I remember losing 20 pounds in two months because I was so stressed I couldn't eat or sleep. Oh yeah, and getting long covid that I'm still dealing with because I had students and a coworker who didn't like wearing masks and who came in sick.
And everyone was so bored out of their mind they turned into Karens and Kens? And people turned into “doctors”?
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.
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
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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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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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