Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.
Reminder that memes predate the web as well as the Internet.
Anybody who recognizes the difference between the WWW and the Internet knows what they’re talking wbout
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Kilroy disagrees with your post
A meme is a meme regardless of whether it started on the web, paper, or an ancient brick wall.
The term meme started in the 70s and just because that’s become the commonly accepted term doesn’t mean they didn’t exist well before that (in fact there are examples that are thousands of years old preserved in ruins).
Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.
The Blind Watchmaker is also a good’n.
Too bad the author is a right cunt
What’s his deal?
He decided it’s all the Muslims’ fault, mostly
Killroy is a repost of the Australian “Foo Was Here” meme.
Being an alternate protocol nerd is a trip. Most people have no clue what a gopher/Gemini/spartan/finger is or how they differ from the web. The few handful on this planet that do are just other nerds who like to blogspam tech nerd things. It would be nice if the web enshittified so much even the average non techie was put into a position to look into these alternatives.
Well that’s on them for turning off avatars 🤷♂️
