This is dated 2017, so must have been through a few phone-to-phone days transfers to be on my current one.

But in my main store of files that’s synced across machines, I have this from 1999

Memes were still finding their feet back then.

This one occasionally comes in handy:

I downloaded this from Reddit on 6/22/12:

idk if it counts as a meme, but I downloaded this image a long while ago to make memes with it. Thus, the oldest meme in my gallery. It probably isn’t that old anyways

Specially good for when people comes up with serious BS

File date says May 2003. I converted it from wmv to mp4 for your convenience.