So apparently I have been living under a rock according to some people, because I'd never heard of the "Rules of the Internet". The list has been around for at least a few years from what I've seen, though many of the rules have held true for longer  :P

I'd heard of random rules being stated but just took them as clever insights (can't think of a word for it atm). I've heard probably half of them stated before, but I just came across the collection of rules that people seem to have memorized long ago:




http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rules_of_the_Internet