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Mushroom... Mushroom....
Oh God...
Ohhhh its a snaaakeeee
Ohhhhh its a snake
Its a
Badger
Badger
Badger
... Still loving it and already showed it to my kids
My first memes were all in ascii art.
Mine were PETSCII using C-64 graphical codes from shifted letters. I had an animated signature line on one BBS of the Enterprise that would redraw it, making it warp out to the side of the screen. It works well because of the slow baud rate. :D
I still remember seeing those for the first time, right up there with hearing dr. sbaitso and the wav2pc speaker app.
In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire