What was the first meme?
>>1381337
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XQeA8WJGU
t. Oldfag.
This is of course assuming we are tlaking about actual 'meme's' and not the idea of what it is to be a meme. Meme's existed for huge amount of time before the term was coined.
religion
language?
>>1381337
>The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
>Dawkins wrote that evolution depended not on the particular chemical basis of genetics, but only on the existence of a self-replicating unit of transmission — in the case of biological evolution, the gene. For Dawkins, the meme exemplified another self-replicating unit with potential significance in explaining human behavior and cultural evolution.
>>1381337
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kilroy_was_here
>>1381357
as 2007 as 2007 was, I refuse to believe that the first internet meme originated in that year. Surely there is something even more memetic that precedes the Kung Fu Baby
>>1381359
This guys ancestors.
>>1381418
Aren't lolcatz older than that?
>>1381576
No. It's also long cat. lolcatz is a thing, but Long Cat is the original.
t. Oldfag.
>>1381337
Quirks.
>>1381337
Jews
>>1381585
You are so full of shit
First on on this site was probably something stupid like "all your base" that are originally from SA forums.
>>1381752
>was probably something stupid like "all your base" that are originally from SA forums.
t. Newfag
Dicks were the first meme, even before rhe romans
I'm pretty sure it was Chuck Norris facts, which was inspired by Conan O'Brien in 2004 when he started playing random weird clips of Walker Texas Ranger on his show..
>>1381775
This the real answer.
>>1381762
You are still full of shit, do you even know what SA stand for?
For humanity, see pic.
For the internet, maybe the Meow Wars, or Mr. T eating balls.
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Meow_Wars
>>1381357
Fucking Ally McBeal, man.
Pottis
>>1381418
the gifs themselves are way older than that. Mid 90s, It was one of those things that people sent to each other by email.
>>1381775
>>1381852
This is now a dick thread
if you're talking internet memes, it was this:
https://youtu.be/6WpMlwVwydo
if you mean any meme, it was probably the human penis, like this guy said >>1381775
>>1382022
>They remixed it into a full song
>They started playing this shit on repeat on Radio Disney
>I'd wait hours for them to play it when I was 10 years old because I loved it so much.
>>1381337
MEME (noun)
>an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation
>pic - even these examples are late. Clothing, cooking techniques, wooden tools and language may have predated stone tools by millennia.
>>1381337
longcat
The first meme was the dick.
Its probably in the moon by now.
>>1381337
The dancing baby was an "internet meme" before the internet was really what we understand it now, this guy is right
>>1381357
Plenty of internet-meme style viral jokes existed in modern history like "the S", "church of the subgenius" or "kilroy was here", but the further back you go the more difficult they are to distinguish from technology, religion, or language itself.
>>1382542
>>1381337
The acknowledgment that apes could eat roots to survive, or the stick
>>1381357
Isn't "All your base are belong to us" older than that?
>>1382020
At this site you can literally
go to hui.
>>1381337
>1337
the first meme was marxism
>>1381993
GTA San Andreas
>>1382550
>Its probably in the moon by now.
Think further, faggot.
>>1381337
Hamster dance
>>1382667
no, it was the entire age of Enlightenment
>>1381995
Scalariform masterrace reporting in!
Wasn't the first meme "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition?
>>1381407
yawning
I had never really seen the word "meme" used until 2010-12 or something. Around 06-07 it was all "pools closed mudkips lulz SHOOP DA WHOOP" but nobody really called these things "memes".
Since I was part of the habbo rush, pools closed was the first thing I was exposed to. Longcat, jesus christ it's a lion, imma chargin mah lazer, i herd u liek mudkips, this was the meme culture of that time period. It was fucking stupid but that's when 4chan was as bright and young as it's users at the time and hadn't lost it's optimism yet.
>>1381337
Burying your dead is probably the first meme we have evidence of
Probably "LOL" or "OMG"
>>1382682
Idiot, guess again.
>>1382592
Yup, yet everyone in this thread got their mad Internet skills from ED and urban dictionary, so don't be surprised when they are full of it.
>>1381337
Probably the first joke ever retold. The first written record of a joke is in a Sumerian tablet afaik.
>>1382686
That one has probably already blown away, one on the moon would last a long time
>>1386208
What was the joke?
>>1387810
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
>>1381337
"I"
No, I'm serious.
>>1387818
translate it you fucking germ
Ahahahaha
>>1387832
It doesn't translate well into English...
>>1381359
>religion
/thread
Bipedality.
>>1384496
I distinctly remember a meta conversation about "meh mays" with some friends in like 2006, maybe earlier. I had a very obnoxious friend who never stopped saying "pwned" "n00b" "1337". desu happened shortly after on /b/ and that was 2007 at the latest right? The term was used pre-lolcats for sure but was used as a sort of passing observation.
Around 2010 it no longer became cool to genuinely enjoy things or have any fun. The internet became self-aware and hated itself for what it was and everything had to be ironic so "memeing" became a meme in itself.
t. Meme master
(^example of post-2010 "meme" meme. Very ironic, much hipster. Wow.)
Woot!!!1!1i want to go back. rawr. I miss MySpace and emo girls.
