I love seeing lists of the media that have impacted people’s lives. The other day I saw someone post about 15 movies that had impacted them. Then I saw another person post 10 books that have stuck with them. Today, I thought about listing 5 of the earliest Internet memes I liked/stuck with me. Here are my lists.

I think if you choose to make a list of your own, you should do so first, and then compare notes with your friends. Just a thought.

Fifteen Movies
Pecker
The Princess Bride
Bringing Out the Dead
The Fifth Element
Event Horizon
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
A Serious Man
Fight Club
Groundhog Day
Young Frankenstein
Alien
Empire Records
Stranger Than Fiction
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ten Books

The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
1984
Kafka on the Shore
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Volume I)
Snow Crash
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
High Fidelity
American Gods
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty Trilogy)

Five Earliest Remembered Internet Memes/Sites
I Kiss You! (1999? I remember earlier.)
Zombocom (1999, and still live!)
Hampsterdance 1998?
Hatt-baby! 2000?
All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Invasion of the Gabber Robots – Laziest Men on Mars) (1998?)