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History of Internet Memes

Historically, an internet meme would be a little bit of cultural information which was spread through word of mouth. This usually took the form of a tale, a fable /parable, or a joke. But due to increasing technology, internet memes now travel much faster than spoken word. We have seen and hear all of them time now, but what is the origin of Internet memes?

Origin of Memes

A Meme is an concept that was defined by Richard Dawkins in the book Selfish Gene in 1976. It was formally understood to be one of cultural transmission or a unit of imitation. Examples of this is songs, ideas, slogans, fashions, and jokes. Richard Dawkins was an evolutionist scientist, who had been interested in memes, and their relationship with the gene pool. A meme is really a bit of cognitive information that becomes behavior, which people replicate. Today, memes are studied less by biologists (like Richard Dawkin) and more by sociologists and psychologists, and more. However, the memes most important task, which is important a meme, is that it is shared and / or replicated again and again, this is actually the core of what is an online meme.

What is an online Meme?

Now, what is an Internet Meme? Quite simply the Internet meme is really a picture, video or other media. which has passed electronically in one Web surfer to a different.

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Because of the increased power the Internet for communication, memes have experienced an impressive change in the 21st century in their capability to spread and influence culture. Due to the speed at which they are able to travel through media avenues, they've become not unusual phenomenon. They are usually completely random, and with little depth. A definition proposed by the Urban Dictionary describes the word, an internet meme is a"internet information generator, especially of random or no information content." So if you've heard of memes and therefore are searching Google for "what a meme is", with the expectation of being full of some insightful and stimulating secret, then you may be discouraged. However, the truth that you've heard of them, proves that Internet Memes are influencing culture.

Who creates Memes?

It is extremely possible you're now thinking, who creates them? As stated previously, memes aren't very intelligent looking, sometimes, one can't even understand them. They are random, crazy, sometimes even ugly, stupid and all together meaningless, and when you have used any time on the Internet, you realize, this material is everywhere. However, the definition of a meme mandates that the meme become popular. So, although there are many potentials created every day, it's not official. Becoming "official" is extremely vague and difficult to predict. The story of the Milhouse meme is a perfect example. 4chan is a forum where lots of from the popular memes become official. A well-known debate on this website was Milhouse, in the Simpsons. For quite some time, the legitimacy of Milhouse was hotly debated.

Its acceptance continues to be so hotly contested it has turned into a meme of protest. The protest against him was sufficiently strong to make Milhouse famous, and therefore obviously is a meme. The term "Milhouse is not a meme" is a paradoxical statement that is used to consult a protesting meme.

Everyone has the ability to create a meme. The only real condition is that it is random, and also to be popular. Thousands of people are trying every day to create the next meme, but very few succeed.