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Infinitum posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnncUVLAAYQ No, this is in dog bytes, not human bytes
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Infinitum posted:
I think you mean 1023 MiB
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lobsterminator posted:I think you mean 1023 MiB 
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So only tangentially related to the thread, but… Does anyone have a good history of when and how internet memes started to be called memes? I know the original 1970s Dawkins coinage, and I remember when we had “image macros”, but it’s super blurry to me (and frankly, it’s pretty blurry in the Wikipedia entry) of when the word meme predominantly took on the meaning it holds today in common parlance. (And if this is too off topic please let me know where this goes.)
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Busket Posket posted:It’s like the dollar-store generic version of High-Tech Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND. No no, I get that, I thought someone was calling for me Infinitum posted:The Beer
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Halisnacks posted:So only tangentially related to the thread, but… I know you're not looking for anecdotes but I can say I remember that around 2000-2002 the word "meme" didn't refer to images with text on them, but a particular kind of cultural touchstone spreading on the Internet that spawned a lot of references and riffs, like All Your Base or Hyakugojyuuichi. In fact most things referred to as "memes" (at least by my friend group) were videos. Someone would know you'd seen a new "meme" because you were parroting the catchphrases from it in real life. Still roughly the same usage as today except that now it's just used in a more catch-all sense to mean any of the riffs and still images too.
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In my corner of LiveJournal in 2002, “meme” exclusively referred to quizzes that would circulate through your friends list. Most people I knew back then interpreted “meme” as short for “me me me me!” It’s interesting to me how the vague concept of meme was circulating but being used in a specific context and with its own folk etymology assigned to it.
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I would only accept two ways of that movie ending: 1. The bear is defeated by a park ranger consuming an equal amount of cocaine and fighting it because cocaine =Popeye spinach 2. Bear eats peyote and transcends reality
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Time Cowboy posted:In my corner of LiveJournal in 2002, “meme” exclusively referred to quizzes that would circulate through your friends list. Most people I knew back then interpreted “meme” as short for “me me me me!” It’s interesting to me how the vague concept of meme was circulating but being used in a specific context and with its own folk etymology assigned to it. I think they were also called sheep for a while on LJ, possibly for a similar reason.
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Time Cowboy posted:In my corner of LiveJournal in 2002, “meme” exclusively referred to quizzes that would circulate through your friends list. Most people I knew back then interpreted “meme” as short for “me me me me!” I think most people you knew back then may have been stupid
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I used a “make your own meme” site in 2001 that made images with text on them. It picked preloaded monkeycheese phrases for you and had a small array of pictures to choose from including a guy looking at you side-eyed and doing a really stupid smile if anyone remembers. You could put your own text but it was tedious to do it
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I have no memory of the word “meme” before like, 2008 but I wasn’t quite as terminally online at that point either. Around here we used to call basically any image with text on it a Macro.
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macros are memes but not all memes are macros
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MokBa posted:I have no memory of the word “meme” before like, 2008 but I wasn’t quite as terminally online at that point either. Around here we used to call basically any image with text on it a Macro. What a weird  attitude we had about it  I never understood "image macro" tbh, a macro to me is a key combination that performs some complicated but predefined task. Watch I'll press Cmd+Shift+< and it creates an insanity wolf with "MONDAYS AMIRITE?"
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Yes, that's pretty much how it worked. They were called image macros because you could enter a specific phrase like [img-goatse] into your post and it would insert the image for you automatically.
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flavor.flv posted:I think most people you knew back then may have been stupid I'm pretty sure most ppl incl. myself are pretty stupid right now, dumbness is timeless, I always thought of memes as being little cultural nuggets, like postcards of a specific vibe or mood.that are a natural occourance of the internet, so, yeah, like i say: dumbness.
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Data Graham posted:What a weird it made sense at the time in the same way that it made sense at the time that I'd be banned for typing like this, but yeah, it's loving weird now Sagebrush posted:Yes, that's pretty much how it worked. They were called image macros because you could enter a specific phrase like [img-goatse] into your post and it would insert the image for you automatically. was that it? I'd always understood that it was bc they were vaguely like macro commands (in that you'd post one thing that had a whole subset of words). wouldn't even be the first time today I was wrong, though.
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Empty Sandwich posted:was that it? Yes. For instance, that timeline image with "birth of black Jesus" "you are here" that gets reposted now and then -- that was [img-timeline] macro way back in the day.
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Sagebrush posted:Yes. For instance, that timeline image with "birth of black Jesus" "you are here" that gets reposted now and then -- that was [img-timeline] macro way back in the day. ty. I like learning. 
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Chintu you piece of sheisse
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Sagebrush posted:Yes, that's pretty much how it worked. They were called image macros because you could enter a specific phrase like [img-goatse] into your post and it would insert the image for you automatically. I saw img-timeline in the wild, being used unironically in a non SA context, on Facebook. Yesterday.
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Chitin posted:Chintu you piece of sheisse
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Author was a MAN! ... With a ball!
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after the screen shot the 2nd guy was like i wanna look at you sucking my dick and the op sucked his dick. "straight" guys on grinder are insanely common
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It's just a bro-job, bro.
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Terry loaned him that book
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Can’t a dude just gently caress other dudes without being labeled gay?
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oldpainless posted:Can’t a dude just gently caress other dudes without being labeled gay? Yes, bisexual, pansexual, men who have sex with men etc are sexual identities
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I’m just glad the meme had a happy ending
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OfferUp but yea
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