Before we all mindlessly stared at our screens, we all mindlessly stared at newspapers. And turns out, they had their own version of weird funny tweets and memes back then. Some vintage headlines read like clickbait straight out of Reddit, and bits of local news or statements would genuinely make really great Tweets.

Shout out to @YesterdaysPrint on Twitter for finding a lot of these great clips. Some of these would never be printed today. Outdated offensive language, words that have changed meanings, and some words that are just plain weird. It’s all fascinating and funny.