If you grew up on the early internet, you probably remember waiting for pages to load, trying to download music and getting like 57 viruses at the same time, restarting your computer when your screen froze, chatting with your friends on MSN, sending your first emoticons 🙂 😛 and sharing early memes! 

The oldies, the ones that made us fall in love with this art form of humor. Old memes didn’t need fancy editing or perfect timing; they could be just simple drawings of exaggerated facial expressions with a short, relatable catchphrase, and that was it. That’s how our sense of humor started developing online, and how we began our obsession with sharing relatable, funny jokes we felt the whole world could understand. This, ladies and gentlemen, is online culture! Let’s take a trip back to our very first LOLs.