Rule 39

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Rule 37

You cannot divide by zero, just because the calculator says so.

Fact 11

Barry is reported to be amazing.

Rule 41

Desu isn’t funny. Seriously guys. It’s worse than Chuck Norris jokes.note

Fact 5

Google averages nearly 3 billion searches per day.

Rule 4

We are legion.

Rules 21-24

Original content is original only for a few seconds before it’s no longer original. Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality. Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality. Every post is always a repost of a repost.

Rule 29

On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents.

Rule 8

There are no real rules about posting.

Fact 18

File sharing and media streaming are responsible for more than half of the traffic on the web.

RULE # 3

We are Anonymous.

Rule 65

If there isn’t, there will be.

Rule 14

Do not argue with trolls — it means they win.

Rule 32

You must have pictures to prove your statements/Anything can be explained with a picture.

Rule 50

A Crossover, no matter how improbable, will eventually happen in Fan Art, Fan Fiction, or official release material, often through fanfiction of it.

Fact 7

The phrase “internet surfing” was coined by a librarian named Jean Armour Polly in 1992.

Rule 30

Girls do not exist on the internet.

Rule 36

No matter how fucked up it is, there is always worse than what you just saw.

Rule 62

It has been cracked and pirated. You can find anything if you look long enough.

Rule 63

For every given male character, there is a female version of that character (and vice-versa). And there is always porn of that character.

Fact 4

The current estimate of internet users is roughly 3.26 billion worldwide, or less than half of Earth’s population.

Fact 16

The first spam email that ever went out was from a computer salesman named Gary Thuerk in 1978.

Rule 46

The internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.

Fact 20

If the internet were measured in horsepower, it takes 50 million horsepower to run the internet today.

Rule 12

Anything you say can and will be used against you.

Fact 15

Symbolics.com was the first registered domain.

Rule 47

The pool is always closed.

RULE # 0

Don’t fuck with cats.

Rule 9

There are no real rules about moderation either — enjoy your ban.

Rule 45

When one sees a lion, one must get in the car.

Rule 18

Everything that can be labelled can be hated.

Fact 17

Asia accounts for 1.7 billion of the internet’s 3.26 billion users.

Rule 17

Every win fails eventually.

Rule 10

/b/ is not your personal army.

Rule 38

No real limits of any kind apply here — not even the sky.

Rule 15

The harder you try, the harder you will fail.

Fact 3

YouTube uploads 72 hours of video every single minute. Yes, it is mostly people’s pets.

Rule 7

Anonymous is still able to deliver.

Rule 20

Nothing is to be taken seriously.

Fact 6

The number of people in China who use the internet (640 million) is double the population of the whole United States.

Fact 13

The first webcam video is from the University of Cambridge. The subject of the first live video feed? A coffee pot.

Fact 9

Korean rap sensation Psy’s song “Gangnam Style” holds the record for YouTube’s most viewed video ever. It has been viewed more than 2 billion times.

Rule 67

90% of fanfiction is the stuff of nightmares.

Rule 16

If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure.

RULE # 1

You don’t talk about /b/.

Fact 19

ATMs, which date all the way back to 1974, are considered the first major Internet of Things objects.

RULE # 2

You don’t talk about /b/.

Rule 72

If a song exists, there’s a Megalovania version of it.

Rule 64

If it exists, there’s an AU of it.

Fact 2

If the Internet were weighed, it would weigh about 2 ounces (50 grams).

Rule 43

The more beautiful and pure a thing is — the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.

Rule 70

Do not talk about the 100M GET failure.

Fact 8

One of the inventors of web as we know it, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

Rule 33

Lurk more — it’s never enough.