The ORIGINAL "memes," or as we used to call them, "image macros"

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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > The ORIGINAL "memes," or as we used to call them, "image macros"

That Robot: Sep 16, 2004; ask me anything about robots; Buglord

Lowtax posted:

Back in 2001 or whatever, I decided to add vB code that would automatically post an "image macro," which is what the KIDS THESE DAYS call "memes." As far as I know, we were one of the first forums, if not the first forum, to do this. This makes me very sad and ashamed to admit there's a possibility we are responsible for the wasteland of internet meme poo poo we currently live in, but hey, here's all the original ones that kicked everything off (as far as I know):

I disabled the ability to post these image macros shortly thereafter.