Kimopolis

Could somebody please explain to me why certain internet users feel that it is their “Internet Duty” to tell the rest of the world that a post is “old.” If a post has upwards of 2000 hits on social news web sites like Digg.com or reddit.com that means those people have not, I repeat NOT, seen that post previously. Who are you to race to your snarky comment keyboard and say something completely inane like, “This is really old, but I guess it’s still funny?” Who died and made you “The Keeper of Archival Internet History?”

Have you ever thought that just maybe, perhaps, there might be people out there who aren’t intravenously connected to the internet, and that maybe the first time that particular post made the rounds, they missed it? Does it bother you that some people don’t have any idea who or what spaghetti cat is? And, just because they may be a little late to the party, that doesn’t mean it isn’t as funny to them the first time they see it, as it was the first time you saw it? That somehow they are less of a person because they aren’t hip to the latest internet meme that you and your vast useless internet knowledge heard about two weeks ago? Apparently so, because you just can’t stop yourself from telling everyone what a huge ASS you are because you knew about “The Evolution of Dance” in 2002.

Recently, I came across this comment: “Older than the internet.” Of course, that’s ridiculous and impossible, but you KNOW the prick who posted that thought he was SO clever that he not only highlighted your epic fail for not realizing that particular photo/article/comic is as old as the dinosaurs, but he also “made a funny.” You know what I think? I think you should get one post a day where you can make the “old-as-my-Atari64” comment and then you are cut off for the next 24 hours. Instead of trolling the internet for innocent amateurs, you could do something proactive with your internet time. Or maybe you could, I don’t know…GO OUTSIDE FOR A CHANGE. Just a suggestion.