My First Memes

So, back in 1994, I was living with my mother. My grandfather got me my first computer. It was a 486DX2 with like 4 MB of RAM. I remember it came with a 3D Anatomy program that allowed you to see every millimeter of the human body. I also remember it would often freeze while using that program. I was fourteen at the time, and we didn’t have internet.

It wouldn’t be until two years later, that I would get onto the internet with good old America Online. We had moved to Iowa, and the kicker was, I didn’t realize I was calling a long distance number to connect. In places like Iowa, you can call the same area code and it would still be long distance if you were calling another town. After the first month, we ended up getting a $500+ phone bill. Even though my mother was a heavy alcoholic, she didn’t like showing anger, but she did yell at me about that one and I was grounded from the internet for a month.

I don’t remember exactly how or when I got into making memes. Back then, the term hadn’t been coined yet, but, technically, the internet was already full of them. My first one was very basic. I was trying to learn how to make a gif, which has a hard ‘g’ because it’s not peanut butter. Anywho, I took a picture of Taz and made him cycle through several colors.

Technically, this does count as a meme, and I didn’t upload it anywhere. My next meme, though, is more what you expect when someone refers to a meme.

I had quit high school during the first semester of my junior year. Before we moved to Iowa, I was part of…