This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Conn chapter.

Our generation would argue that the early years of YouTube were when some of the greatest videos were produced. A lot of videos come to mind when we think back to our childhoods and remember the videos that had us laughing until our stomachs hurt. In a world before smartphones, we would go to school and talk about the latest YouTube video that had us falling out of our desk chairs. The minute we would get home from school, we would search the video our friends told us about that day and play it over and over again until our parents told us to get off the computer. It’s unfortunate that kids these days don’t even know what a desktop computer is!

Maybe you remember some of these videos that went “viral” before “viral” was even a thing: