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.
It's an incredible concept, but the money Norway made/makes off of its oil and gas goes to fund benefits for EVERYBODY (see above). I know, right? Why would a country do that for its people? I LOVE YOU NORWAY. DON'T EVER CHANGE.
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Also, a government that isn’t fighting itself and holding its own country hostage.
It has been proposed that the reason Skandia has such a culture of equality dates back to the Norse. When they returned from a viking (their word for a raid) the spoils were divided up according to a very specific schedule: a certain percentage for the vessel owner, another percentage for the captain (frequently not the owner), another for the family of those lost or killed, and a hierarchical division based on seniority. It was done quite publicly and no one took anything until everyone, even the lowest ranking person, was happy with the division.
Sounds like straight up capitalism to me. Owner first. Then the CEO. Then the regulatory taxation. Then management. Then peons.
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Their grosseries should be expensive though. I think butter is the double of what i pay
As a Norwegian it can really depend. Food and bills been hurting my wallet alot. same with the lack of local doctors.
Well, they make lots of money in the US, being a doctor or lawyer here is social code for wealthy. And no, it doesn't feel right to us either, since we typically cannot afford what either of those careers want to charge us.
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So, perhaps there's a link as to why the US people are so messed up and violent because our system doesn't function like that of Norway.
Welp guess I'm moving to Norway!!!! I absolutely can't funking stand America anymore!!!!! ABSOLUTE HELLHOLE 😡😡😡😡
"How can they possibly be happy in a country where there aren't more guns than people???" -- Americans.
1,329,000 registered firearms owned by 486,028 (or 36% of population) people in Norway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Norway
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More than a month of paid vacation, if you worked the entire previous year. If you worked from summer, last year that means you are still entitled to five weeks of vacation, but only 2,5 would be paid vacation. So you get paid according to how much you worked previous year.
It switches often between all the Nordic countries, and sometimes Switzerland.
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It would be terribly ungratefull to NOT BE HAPPY under those conditions😍😍
Per capita they take the most antidepressants of any country in the world. True
They take turns with us Danes ☺️😉 Both Norwegians and Danes pay taxes to benefit all, give free education , free health care and to give maternal leave for about a year...
Try some of their literature and movies. Those folks have very dark souls!
They used to be glad with new people…but they got to have a needed profession. Like doctor…for instance.
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Actually 21 days vacation but paid out at with 5 weeks (10.2 % of previous years salary)
Norway is all that ... but it's also Incredibly expensive to live there and gets incredibly cold too!
That is a lie, im Norwegian and im not happy. Only thing descent i free healthcare rest can f**k off.
Yes, taxes that get invested into the country's infrastructure, education system, and health care, you know, kinda what taxes as supposed to do?
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Per capita they take the most antidepressants than any other country in the world. True
Where do you get that info??? I thought the Belgians where the ones…
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Each US state has skills and resources they bring to the table. It's bad management of same and greed that make it impossible, not population size.
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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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