Pre-Obama, pre-Tumblarity Tumblr

droptumblarity:

davereed:

  • You either reblogged something or you didn’t. No Like, no gray areas.
  • Muxtape! Everyone had one, then the RIAA had to shut it down.
  • The big mystery then was how to get listed on the Tumblr Radar.
  • baconbaconbacon was huge.
  • There was no fuckyeah for everything under the sun, only fuckyeahsharks.
  • Y so srs? Remember when Jokerizing stuff was new?
  • The Dark Knight and the hype that accompanied it
  • Ben Folds!
  • MGMT!
  • Less than 20 people participated in GPOYW.
  • Characters like stupidinboston and saintnate polarized people.
  • The Twitter Fail Whale!
  • Threadless t-shirts
  • No one, save for a handful of Tumblrs, knew what Skins, Flight of the Conchords, and The Mighty Boosh were all about.
  • Everyone created their own Face Your Manga avatar the moment someone posted about it.
  • Memes involved making a mosaic using your flickr or your story using iTunes.
  • People actually read posts.
via cheezybeezyaintsneezyfosheezy: geekyrappinghood: ginobambino
∞ 2 years ago