• Wren@lemmy.worldOP
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    22 hours 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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      21 hours ago

      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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        21 hours 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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          19 hours 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.