The 40 best IT and tech memes on the internet | TechRepublic (2024)

Maury's lie detector

“BonziBuddy? I didn’t even know you could still install that anymore!”

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Paramount Domestic Television

Too damn high

Google has been around for almost two decades now. You’d think people would have figured this one out already.

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Imgur

Evil Plotting Raccoon

This is just pure evil.

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fragdemented via Imgflip

Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer

Even Archer uses Google Chrome.

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Note: This gallery was updated with even more memes on May 30, 2017.

20th Television

Hard reset

When you’re out of options, you can always try the trusty “hard reset.”

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via Imgur

Sweet Brown

Ain’t nobody got time to deal with an infected device, either.

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KFOR News Channel 4

An even harder reset

And when the hard reset doesn’t work…

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judah4 via Reddit

Expanding brain

This one is just too, too real.

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samdasaur via Reddit

Andy Bernard

You’re forgiven, Andy.

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NBC Universal Television

Scumbag Steve

Scumbag Steve, you are the worst.

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via Imgur

Technologically Impaired Duck

What do you want to bet that the password “password1” appears in the spreadsheet at least twice?

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via Imgflip

Thanks, Gandalf

I trust him to do it a lot more than I trust Windows Vista.

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New Line Cinema

Bad Pun Dog

Very punny.

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Confessional Bear

We won’t tell your boss that anyone can do your job… so long as you don’t tell ours the same thing.

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Incorrect password

Remember when you could set a password without requiring the use of a capital letter, a number or a special character? TechRepublic remembers.

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Paramount Pictures

Bad Luck Brian

…I’ve totally done this.

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Foiled by a Captcha

When the robots do finally rise up against us, captchas may be our only hope.

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TriStar Pictures

Error: Computer room not found

We’d love to say this was intentional, but that sign looks old enough to pre-date UNIVAC.

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We wondered about this one too

The Empire could have at least set a password.

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

A grumpy escape

I keep hitting the Tab key but no one has brought me my beverage yet. 🙁

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Quickmeme

Data recovery doggo

The project was too ruff to handle.

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via Quickmeme

Firefox problems

OK, this is pretty much the most adorable kind of problem.

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via Just Post

Technology Impaired Duck

“The link looked pretty suspicious so I only clicked it once.”

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Memegenerator.net

Business Cat

He’s not kitten around, either. He needs this problem fixed right meow.

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via Quickmeme

Doge Code

Such meme. Wow.

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Dave Chappelle

There’s a reason why IT guys are the busiest in the office…

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MGM Television

Emperor Palpatine

It’s a trap!

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Walt Disney Pictures

Morpheus

Mind blown.

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Warner Bros.

Tech support cat

Seems legit.

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Memecenter

Dwight Schrute

Internet Explorer may be dead, but jokes about how terrible it was will never die.

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NBCUniversal Television Distribution

Tech Support Monkey

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.

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Losing all Ctrl

It’s currently in a three-way tie for the most popular key on Windows keyboards with “Alt” and “Delete.”

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Sandwich, compressed

Even your lunch isn’t safe from the hungry, vice-like jaws of the .RAR.

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Skillprogramming

Grumpy Cat

You should have hit “save.”

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Memegenerator.net

Confused coder

Troubleshooting? More like troubleshot-in-the-dark-ing.

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Devhumor

Spider Man pointing at Spider Man

How in the world did we end up here?

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Reddit

Surprised Pikachu

He’s even more surprised when his mouth is above his nose.

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Reddit

Cut, undo, and paste, minus the computer

Keeping with the theme of manual tech, here are a few of old-fashioned Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Z, and Ctrl+V tools. These are a bit of a softer touch than the hammers.

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Twitter

Modern day phobias

The fears of yesterday have given way to these extreme phobias–who hasn’t panicked when seeing one of them?

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Smart fountain

I wonder what data metrics it collects.

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• Our 30 favorite Google memes (TechRepublic)
• Our 26 favorite Apple memes (TechRepublic)
• Our favorite Microsoft memes (TechRepublic)
• Our favorite holiday tech and geek memes (TechRepublic)
• Best Oscars 2019 memes: Gaga-Cooper chemistry, Wayne’s World reunion (CNET)
• Hell in a Cell: The surprising story behind the Reddit meme (CNET)
• Gallery: All Of The Memes James Corden Has Made With His Audience Members (CBS)
• More Photo Galleries from TechRepublic (Flipboard magazine)

Editor’s note: This gallery was first published on May 2017. Brandon Vigliarolo contributed additional slides and updates to the gallery in March 2019.

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