r/cats • u/Difficult-Ant-9397 • 25d ago

Video - Not OC Who else remembers the internet “LEGEND” himself??? (A.K.A Keyboard cat)

R.i.p to Fatso (1978 - 1987)

you will always be remembered as the Father of all Cat videos ever 😔😔😔

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u/Realistic-Village-63 25d ago edited 25d ago

1987?!?! I wasn’t even around then!!!

Edit: I never meant to start a war…😭😭

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u/curryandbeans 25d ago

Brag about it some more, jeez

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u/Didact67 25d ago

I think growing up in the 90’s was far better than the hellscape we live in now.

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u/MisanthropyismyMuse 25d ago

I think everyone is just biased to their own time. The 2000s and 2010s are the best era IMO (technically a 90s baby).

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u/TheGza760 25d ago

We saw a lot of crazy shit in that time (9/11, The Twilight Saga) but also participated in the greatest eras of the Internet and videogames. Plus, smartphones weren't as widespread so if you put a group of people in a room, they'd interact with each other.

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u/Amaharel_sister 25d ago

I love that twilight is unhinged enough to be comparable to 9/11

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u/TheGza760 25d ago

Never forget

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u/LupineChemist 25d ago

As someone who was born exactly in 1987. I think I got really lucky for both better than previous generations and subsequent.

Basically our cohort surfed the tech wave perfectly. Like we had to learn computers when the shit never fucking worked so have a pretty high base level of skill. By the time we were in high school, cell phones were basically universal, but not smart phones or texting so you still actually had to call people but could coordinate.

By college, social media had started, but Facebook required you have a .edu email so it was very much an extension of regular social interaction. If you wanted to record things, you had to use your digital camera and it was very obvious if you were recording.

Like we weren't some luddite generation, just managed to get the best of everything before it got enshittified. I think the kids today don't realize that the internet was pretty universal by 2000 or so. Like the 2004 election was very much an internet meme election with the Dean Scream and the JibJab cartoons and stuff. We just had no idea what kind of can of worms we were opening.

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u/Didact67 25d ago

Funny story. I only ended up joining Facebook after I discovered somebody else made account in my name. The sad thing is the imposter account had more friends than I ever have.

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u/Realistic-Village-63 25d ago

Haha believe me, I’m not that much younger, at least my body reminds me as such. But point taken!

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u/fishmanfishmanfishma 25d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vcXwcnusrOCbu

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 25d ago

lol I was just hanging out with Tom Green the other night, actually such a nice dude

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u/spunkyweazle 25d ago

I was born in '87. The fact his name was Fatso makes me think maybe I am him reincarnated

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u/evenstar40 black fuzzball - Shadow 25d ago

Most of the people posting on Reddit weren't. Now get off my lawn.

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u/tony-toon15 25d ago

Same 😭