The Meme Tree
Let’s collaboratively create a huge “meme tree” that starts with early viral hits and extends forward through the history of the viral web.
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The Meme Tree
Jonah Peretti
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Jamie Dubs 4 years ago
http://internetfamo.us/class/advice-dog-dispens...![[link]](http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/images/public/icons/external-link2.png)
Advice dog image macros help you make good life decisions.
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steve lucin 4 years agoThe Hamster Dance! Dee Daa Dee Daa Dee Dee Do Do…
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Jack Shepherd 4 years ago
http://www.southparkstuff.com/specials/the_spir...
Jesus vs. Santa Claus: More than a year before they came to South Park in 1997, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny were the stars of a proto-viral video called “The Spirit of Christmas,” featuring a duel between Jesus and Santa Claus. Their early Internet popularity helped pave the way for a long line of funny and often filthy-minded animated shorts that would amass millions of viewers on the Web …
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Eric Buth 4 years agoI remember that CG Dancing Baby as originally being an animated GIF, but here it is as a video.
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Andy Yaco-Mink 4 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neiman_Marcus#The_...
The Neiman Marcus cookie recipe meme supposedly started off as a viral photocopy-meme, but extended into the days when everyone’s mom discovered chain emails.
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Scott Lamb 4 years agoAll Your Base Are Belong To Us: The first widespread viral that was just a weird/random snippet of culture. Appeared and spread as a Flash file in 2001-2002. Probably the biggest example of Engrish as a meme.
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Jonah Peretti 4 years ago
MAHIR! The first (?) in a long line of geeks, fools, a-holes, and otherwise clueless people to accidentally become “Internet Famous”. This is the start of a huge branch of the Meme Tree - who else is important here?
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Jonah Peretti 4 years ago
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smile...
Emoticons :-) The first smiley emoticon was invented in 1982 by Scott Fahlman. Here is the original bulletin board post. This was the start of a virtual Renaissance in emoticon and ASCII art. Hint: Respond to this post with examples.
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