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minus-squarenomad@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoYeah I’m saying I didn’t know and learned from the article. It blows my mind that there are pre internet memes. X)
minus-squaresaimen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 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.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWell 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.
minus-squareGeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThe term Meme was first coined in the '70s. And even then it’s taken from a ancient Greek word
Yeah I’m saying I didn’t know and learned from the article. It blows my mind that there are pre internet memes. X)
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.
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.
The term Meme was first coined in the '70s. And even then it’s taken from a ancient Greek word