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QuentinCallaghanA to Memes@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

Dancing Baby Screensaver, perhaps the oldest Internet meme

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Dancing Baby Screensaver, perhaps the oldest Internet meme

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QuentinCallaghanA to Memes@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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Dancing Baby Screensaver. 1996 (original music)
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A '90-es évek képernyőkímélő "táncoló babája".Eredeti zenével.Wikipedia: "The "Dancing Baby" phenomenon refers to a rendered animation of a baby performing a...
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    Yes, but the dancing baby isn’t the oldest, maybe the first animated (gif). The word meme is based of the book The selfish gene from 1976, which exposes the memetic hypothesis of cultural transmission. Dawkins names the smallest unit of information that can be transmitted as a ‘meme’. The other from 1921 I put only because with this the meme celebrate 100 years and it isn’t diferent from the tipical actual “expectation-reallity memes” A lot of history with internet, same with the emoticons (the first is from 1648) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/the-first-emoticon-may-have-appeared-in-1648/360622/ Maybe much older https://www.livescience.com/59895-oldest-known-smiley-face-emoji.html

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