The secret history of memes
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The mechanics of virality
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The battle for your brain
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Memes around the world
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futura The secret history of memes
Before our screens glowed with digital fun, Dawkins wrote 'bout ideas, how culture is spun.
futura Launched in 1999, Japan's 2channel forum pioneered anonymous posting and text-based Shift_JIS art, shaping global internet culture.
futura Early internet communities relied on simple text characters and basic punctuation to express emotion and build the web's first inside jokes.
First digital emoticon: Computer scientist Scott Fahlman invented the smiley emoticon :-) in 1982 to prevent misunderstandings on a university bulletin board.
An idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. Biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, to describe cultural transmission.
Which Japanese online forum, launched in 1999, pioneered anonymous posting and text-based art?
In what year did computer scientist Scott Fahlman propose the first smiley face emoticon :-)?
federico Before we could even upload images, we were sharing memes made of plain text.
What type of art uses standard keyboard characters to create pictures in early online forums?
Which text-based internet system, popular in the 1980s, hosted the earliest digital communities?