I don’t know where that Manson rumor started but I do know that every single kid in my middle school all wanted to talk about it all the time. This was my first experience with being over saturated with a meme nearly to the point of physical violence. Absolutely no one would shut the fuck up about it ever and me not wanting to hear about it anymore made me the weird one.
The term meme was introduced by Dawkins in 1976 as “a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene”. So any idea that is transmissible is a meme (even the concept of a meme is itself a meme).
The meme of the meme has mutated over time from its ancestral form, and today to many people may mean the transmission of GIFs on the Internet.
However, even in a sense closer to the current meaning than the 1976 ancestral form, memes certainly existed in online communities in the 90s (not as images generally, however, but text certainly).
I’m just a meat based bot that spits out memes from the 90s
we had memes in the 90s? I thought we were just fucking around with emoticons back then.
Off the top of my head: dancing baby and Marylin Manson having a rib removed to suck his own member.
Memes itself are way older than that though. Think about Kilroy and the ‘S’ you drew in school.
I don’t know where that Manson rumor started but I do know that every single kid in my middle school all wanted to talk about it all the time. This was my first experience with being over saturated with a meme nearly to the point of physical violence. Absolutely no one would shut the fuck up about it ever and me not wanting to hear about it anymore made me the weird one.
A meme is a recurring pop-culture action, phrase, or image. Text-overlaid pictures are a category of meme format with sub-categories of meme topics.
Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.
We had taglines and bbs signatures. Those were pretty similar.
Omg remember the sometimes passive aggressive too cool for school away messages on AIM
The term meme was introduced by Dawkins in 1976 as “a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene”. So any idea that is transmissible is a meme (even the concept of a meme is itself a meme).
The meme of the meme has mutated over time from its ancestral form, and today to many people may mean the transmission of GIFs on the Internet.
However, even in a sense closer to the current meaning than the 1976 ancestral form, memes certainly existed in online communities in the 90s (not as images generally, however, but text certainly).