• samus12345@lemm.ee
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          13 hours ago

          2003 internet was worlds different than mid-90s. I definitely don’t think of them as the same eras.

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            13 hours ago

            But people will in another few eras. I’m sure the people in the 1600’s viewed the people in the 1400’s to be vastly different, but yet- they both make up a part of the Renaissance Era.

            Additionally; I think people are taking this meme WAY too seriously.

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              13 hours ago

              Well, yeah, when nobody’s alive who experienced it it’ll be different, but that time hasn’t come yet!

              Nobody’s taking it seriously - it’s just fun to point out the young whippersnappers who weren’t around for 90s internet thinking as far back as they can remember was “first.”

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      1 day ago

      That is one meme. It is quite fair to say someone who doesn’t remember badger badger wasn’t around for anything before that either.

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      1 day ago

      I think it’s meant to imply that this is among the first era of memes, not that it’s the first.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        You’re still thinking way too late in the game. It’s not even really among the first internet memes. But as far as memes go generally it’s bee hundreds of years. We just didn’t call them that in wider speech.

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          1 day ago

          And the Renaissance Era went from the 1400’s to the 1600’s.

          I think we have a bit of slack to play with here.

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            1 day ago

            And the slacks might be yours because it is relative to your observed chonology.

            Doom is an earlier meme that still exists today purely because their release strat was to make the game a… MEME!

            Shareware is the corporate essence of memes.

            And a division between doom and this should exist if the dot com bubble burst in 2000. As that would have drastically changed the landscape of the internet.