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Timeline of Internet Greatest Hits (no, these are not memes)

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Posted on: August 7, 2008 5:21 PM, by Coturnix

You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.

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I disagree, internet memes are just ideas replicated. "The internets" is a good example that's on there. They don't have to be questionnaires.

Posted by: John Conway | August 7, 2008 6:48 PM

wow, you forgot the cirocco and wil drama during the early 1990s.

Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | August 7, 2008 8:31 PM

Oh my god.

From 'The Spirit of Christmas' on, thats my life.

Posted by: ERV | August 7, 2008 9:08 PM

My understanding of the word 'meme' is that it is something reproduced and copied over and over within a community. That can refer to those questionairres OR to videos, images, and the like. Rickrolling or saying 'DO NOT WANT' are also memes. It's a hard word to define, but I know one when I see one.

Posted by: El | August 8, 2008 11:22 AM

Awesome!

Posted by: Doubting Foo | December 19, 2008 10:33 AM

There is an "ate my balls" reference. I am satisfied.

Posted by: WHARRGARBLE | December 19, 2008 1:24 PM

John and El are is right, a meme is any idea replicated (coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene). An internet meme is any meme that happens on teh intertubes. Calling those questionnaires "memes", which is a use I've mostly seen on Livejournal and the like, isn't exactly wrong but it's like calling Internet Explorer "The Internet".

Posted by: mister me | December 27, 2008 5:25 PM

There is a difference between "meme" and "Blog Meme". Even if we ignore the vacuity of the former in the field of cultural evolution, it has a much more broader meaning than the latter term, which is highly specific.

Posted by: Coturnix | December 27, 2008 5:29 PM