I decided to open up the chunk of the archives I was working on again. I found memes.zip. That’s right, I now have a treasure trove of mid-Tenners popular memes.
MRW my flat is attacked by terrorists, fictional characters start their own blogs, and I find ancient memes:
But here’s the really exciting part. Of all things, memes.zip seems to offer proof that the archives were curated by someone.
I found this in the zip, entitled time-capsule.png:
That seems intentional, doesn’t it? I’m fulfilling that comic. It could just be that the zip was copied from someone else who made it as, indeed, a time capsule… but even that suggests a deliberate decision was made to include it.