And one of the cartoons, published as part of a 'College Wits' series, has stunned Twitter users with its similarity to the modern day meme. The first panel shows a man, dressed in a dapper suit ...

I’m one of those weird in-betweeners—too young to be full Gen X, too old to ... it comes to cartoons, the ‘80s were my Saturday morning church. Whether I was watching He-Man, Thundercats ...

As blogs made way for social media, the meme followed along. Today, you’ll see the old man yells at cloud memes used when people admit their own elderly tendencies or resistance to change.