So the Washington Post helpfully put together this list of the top 25 memes of the internet's first 25 years. Somewhat less helpfully, they only included a very limited selection of images.

So go to the link below for the words and about the meme but stay on this page for the actual memes. Here we go.

1996: Dancing Baby

1998: Hamster Dance

2001: Peanut Butter Jelly Time

2001: All Your Base Are Belong To Us

2002: Star Wars Kid

2003: Spongmonkeys

2004: Numa Numa

2005: O RLY

2005: Chuck Norris Facts

– Some magicians can walk on water, Chuck Norris can swim through land.
– Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is chlaustraphobia, fear of Chuck Norris is called Logic
– There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
– Chuck Norris can cut through a hot knife with butter
– Chuck Norris can light a fire by rubbing two ice-cubes together.
– Chuck Norris can describe the taste of water

2007: lolcatz

2007: Rickroll

2007: Success Kid

2007: Dramatic Chipmunk

2007: Philosoraptor

2010: Deal With It

2010: Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife

2011: Nyan Cat

2012: Bad Luck Brian

2012: Grumpy Cat


2013: Doge

2014: Crying Michael Jordan

2015: Left Shark

That's all folks

This link will take you back to the original article to read about the memes.