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
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.
I have a reoccurring anxiety dream where I'm trying to send a text but my phone doesn't work properly
I've DEFINITELY had a/my cellphone in dreams before. This one is dumb.
Yes, the phone itself but you do not see the screen open and working. If you do see your phone it will be a black screen.
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Yes! Mine always either drops calls or never connects them in my dreams.
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I hear this all the time but ever since I heard this my phone is in my dreams all the time 🤨
I had a dream of myself trying to fall asleep and I didn’t realise it was a dream until my alarm went off and I woke up
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Everyone has seemed to have a phone in their dreams but how crazy it is that in most cases it simply doesn't work...
Depends on the dreams origin. If you're anxious that's likely to manifest in the dream - like a phone that doesn't work in an emergency or a missed call from your boss/wife/kid. I know I've had a couple dreams where I was talking with friends on the phone. But at the time I wasn't anxious or stressed. So I assume it was just my brain giving me a pleasant little day to day fantasy.
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Every time I’m having a bad dream and need to call for help, I have my phone, but it never works.
I came here to say that! I'm not the only one--yaaaayyyyyy!
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My cell phone NEVER works in my dreams. I'm always desperately trying to call someone but for some reason the phone won't do what I want it to. It makes me obscenely frustrated!
I frequently try to use a phone or tablet in my dreams, but without exception the b***** never works!
nah. i have very very clear dreams about watching tiktoks and yt shorts... its actually fascinating, like last night i scrolled through about 20 super detailed videos that I completely came up with myself, with random people and characters and audios. it was kind of weird.
Right?? When you wake up you're amazed at what your brain created!
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Y'know, this actually used to be true for me, I had never seen my phone in my dreams. But recently I've actually had one or two dreams where I've been using my phone, mostly for GPS.
My cell phone showed up in a nightmare last week. A witch was texting me from Transylvania, inviting me to her castle, and I was trying to think of a polite way to decline.
Awkward social situations: the most terrifying thing your subconscious could possibly come up with.
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Actually, cellphones do show up in my dreams. Im always trying to call my Mom and I can't remember her number or the number icons on the dialer don't work correctly. By the way, I'm 67yo and my Mom is still alive.
Mine do. It's always when something terrifying is happening and I'm trying to dial 911 but I CAN'T! I keep hitting the wrong number, like my finger won't hit the numbers normally.
uhhh, they do though? I often use my phone in my dreams! Depending on what's happening i've had dreams that included calling people and having them actually respond, watching videos on YouTube, reading messages from friends on Messenger, ordering pizza through an app and calling 911. It's really only about how realistic your dreams get. (Note: realistic dreams are not fun, lemme tell you)
Oh in mine they do ... And the nightmare is I can't call 911 for an emergency. Can't unlock. Can't dial. Call doesn't go thru.
Years ago I used to have nightmares that would have made Stephen King proud. But for years now I just have "annoyance mares". I'll dream about being late for work or problems trying to repair something or boring stuff like that - only to wake up and remember I am retired and the thing isn't broken and so on. So my current dreams could have a cell phone but it would just be something like receiving a spam call or dialing a wrong number.
I can't wait for the day I dream about being late to work and I wake up remembering I'm retired. THAT evil laugh will be heard 'round the world
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Idk, I've had to look for my phone in dreams before, and attempted to make phone calls yet I don't use my phone much throughout the day. Actually, I'm often looking for my phone because I put it down somewhere and hours later cannot remember where I had it last...
My phone shows up in my dreams all the time. Usually malfunctioning while I try to get directions somewhere.
I see mine in some of my dreams and have the worst time using it! Dream me can NOT text!
One of the thinks that keeps me up at night (the joke is im running on less then an hour of sleep bc i had a flight)
I have loads of dreams about cell phones. Either I can't work out how to get to make a call from them, no matter what I press, or they have no structural integrity and they crack and break in my hands or I have several different phones, none of which work properly. TBH, I'm thinking that's more of a 'me' problem than a mobile phone thing...
I've had cell phones in my dreams, but they always look like Palm Pilots, and I can never find my contacts. I have very frustrating dreams.
Fun fact: Text or to stuff on a screen in a dream is something only very few people can see, since the brain can't come up with content for such things. It's estimated that the areas responsible for recognizing them is inactive during sleep
True dat! I used to dream in Tetris style when I played that a lot but mobile phones. No. I mostly dream that one of my cats, Django, can talk and we sit around talking about what it's like to be a cat.
I recently had a dream with my phone in it. I think its because to me my phone has more meaning thanfor other people cus I got a long-distance relationship with my bf. Your phone doesn't show up in your dream when it doesn't symbolize smth very important to you, that's my explanation.
i dream about my phone all the time. In it, i'm constantly fumbling too much to type in 911
Mine do. I am tryimg to dial and the call never goes through, nightmare.
I use my insulin pump in my dreams, but I don't think I've used a phone of any kind...and I'm old enough that rotary phones were the thing till I was around 10. So maybe it's commution by phone (or distance) that doesn't make into dreams?
Your dream object that represents a phone is a different object. Next time you dream maybe look around for a cucumber or a banana in your back pocket.
If you unwound your brain so that it was all stretched out like a single sausage, the part that uses cell phones would be about 35 miles away from the part that thinks up dream imagery. They've never even met each other.
You can't read in your dreams, either. Something to do with the half of your brain you dream with.
Yall never had those dreams where your trying to answer the phone infinity times???
I would be floating telekinetically on a throne explaining things to a Chinese princess. But yeah, never had a phone in a dream.
Do people never have phones in their dreams? You guys must have never had a false awakening
Haw, haw. I play solitaire sic hours a day and dream about it most of the night.
You know, that's a REALLY good point!! I dream about work and work technology all the time!
I have dreams that predict the future, but only mechanical issues. I dreamt my alternator belt wore out and the next week my alternator belt wore out. Then I had a dream I got a flat tire on my bike and that day I got a flat tire. I don’t think I’m psychic, I think I my brain is just trying to remind me to do maintenance on my vehicles.
They do end up in my dreams sometimes, but I can never manage to actually call anyone with it, or use any of the other features.
I never thought about that but it's true (for me anyway)! There is never a phone of any type in my dreams 🤔
I've had dreams about my cellphone. I'm also a Boomer & held out as long as I could.
I have a dream where I'm trying to do math on the phone app like where's the plus, where's the plus. And another dream where I'm using the calculator to try and make a phone call. I keep hitting = but the call won't go through.
I dream of my cell phone at least twice a month...but usually it gets a bug or malware and its not useable andbi really need to call someone. Or it turns into a book. ...useless.
One of my reoccurring dreams is that I can't dial the phone. But now that I think about it, that phone is just a wireless phone from 1998!
I've dreamed of using my phone. Dreamed about going to work. Dreamed about sitting watching TV or using my PC. Not every dream is about flying on the back of a winged tiger while it hunts sky antelope through the rainbow clouds around Olympus.
I actually don't think I have had a dream with a phone in it, but I will now.
I was dreaming last night that I had to get somewhere and couldn't find a bus stop. Why the hell would I need a bus stop? I'm a grown up with a car. Lol
I have had a cell phone in my dreams a few times, but considering how incredibly much we use them, it is extraordinary how little they show up in dreams. But the same is true for many mundane things, I don't think I ever dream about making breakfast or watering the plants, even though I do those things every day in real life.
I wish I could live my dreams, being the starting 1st baseman for the NY Mets, hitting .400, winning multiple World Series Championships, along with becoming the MLB's first 50/50 man all while being married to Norah Jones 💓🥰 and having our 2.3 kids...... But we all have our issues, so wake up already. Lol
I often have my mobile phone in my dreams but I can never get it to work properly. It’s like my brain is telling me I’m dreaming so I can’t actually contact anyone or take a photo.
I have had at least one dream where I had my phone, but I was unable to use it.
It shows up in my dreams sometimes. And its always not working/broken/morphing into chocolate bar. For some reason its old nokia. Guess im old enough 🤷♀️
I have phones, Star Trek communicators, ham radio rigs, zoom calls, etc in my dreams all the time.
My phone once showed up in my dream but it was weird to say the least
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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