This timeline of internet memes will let you chart the evolution of some of your favorite web jokes. [via Pops] Use the zoom to get a high-level view, or to really drill down and get nostalgic.
I appreciated that somebody even included some references to Discordianism. Here's the best (1958): Malaclypse the Younger conspires with other Ur-Discordians to form the Discordian Society. No-one stops them.
Though Principia Discordia wasn't originally posted on an internet, its authors did mimeograph the living hell out of the original pages and fling those pages far and wide, to readers who did the same in their turn. Isn't that what you'd call an analog meme?
Two words: Bob Dobbs!
Four words: Stark Fist of Reknewal!
Posted by: | August 14, 2008 at 08:05 AM