All Your Memes Are Belong To Here

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Now you can catch up on all the Internet Memes you missed since Al Gore invented the InterWebs.
 
http://www.dipity.com/tatercakes/Internet_Memes
 
It's a scrolling timeline of memes, starting from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book "The Selfish Gene" which coined the term.
 
 
Take a tour of meme history!
 

The Internet Coke Machine (1982)
First Post by Mark V. Shaney (to net.singles) (1984)
Godwin's Law (1990)
the JenniCAM (1996)
Bert is Evil (1998)
Bonsai Kitten (2000)
All Your Base Are Belong To Us (2001)
Tron Guy (2004)
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (2005)
Chuck Norris Facts (2005)
I Can Haz Cheezeburger? (2006)
FML (2008)
David After Dentist (2009)
The Trolololololololo Man (2010)

 
...and many many many more.
 
 
Click on any meme icon on the timeline and get a brief description of an idea that grabbed the attention of millions for 15 minutes.
 
 
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From wikipedia:
"The word "meme" is a neologism coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins occuring in 'The Selfish Gene' to describe how one might extend Darwinian principles to explain the spread of and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious belief, clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches)." 
 

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