• saimen@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    ? It is a meme. That’s literally what the first sentence of the article is saying

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      3 days ago

      Yeah I’m saying I didn’t know and learned from the article. It blows my mind that there are pre internet memes. X)

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        3 days ago

        The word meme itself is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, originating from his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.[14]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

        And he just named the phenomenon which probably exists since there are humans (and probably among other animals as well).

        Fairytales and folklore songs are memes.

        Schoolyard clapping games are memes.

        Wearing the baseball hat backwards is meme.

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        2 days ago

        Well it was a post internet meme. It was just a meme of something that happened pre internet… Pre internet in the sense that most people didn’t know what the internet was yet, anyhow. It was a thing. Just not a thing regular people were using, yet.