Feel Like Going Home

You’ve probably read those quotes before and they’re really funny and smart. But it’s been a few years since I first saw them online so I started wondering who wrote them first and where they came from. Of course, not to prove whether they’re real or not; it’s just my curiosity about how the information flows online and offline. 

So, after a few Google searches I found two of the oldest references to the “Kids talk about marriage” quotes on this website, dating April 23rd, 1999 and on this one dating February 9th, 1998. From my understanding it was some kind of an old internet joke, real or not, that, in an era when tumblr and blogs didn’t exist, “netizens” shared through emails and newsgroups. If only geocities was still around, I’d have more to find…

I also made a quick search on newspaperarchive.com but I found only this story published on March 31, 1999 in The Penny Record, a Texas local newspaper. On that article, the (once popular?) website gcfl.net is given as source. However, searching there, I found that the joke wasn’t published before March 1st 2000. But that’s something we’ll have to look into another time…

(via roradesu)