amniotic druid@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoIt's kind of funny how we mocked old people for years over mispronouncing "meme" and as soon as they got it right, we came up with "Pepe"message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down18
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareIt's kind of funny how we mocked old people for years over mispronouncing "meme" and as soon as they got it right, we came up with "Pepe"amniotic druid@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarestarlinguk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 hours agoIt’s funny how “old” people literally invented the Internet and the word meme.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 hours agothe word meme was popularized in 1976. It’s 50. the use of it as for images with quippy overlay it, is like 25 years old. The internet was invented in 1983, and became a consumer product in 1993 when the web browser was introduced. prior to that the web was mostly messaging services and text.
It’s funny how “old” people literally invented the Internet and the word meme.
the word meme was popularized in 1976. It’s 50.
the use of it as for images with quippy overlay it, is like 25 years old.
The internet was invented in 1983, and became a consumer product in 1993 when the web browser was introduced. prior to that the web was mostly messaging services and text.