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Before Memes Had a Name, There Was a Cat
Internet memes turned 2007 into year zero — and the evidence starts with a cat, a cheeseburger, and intentionally terrible spelling.
Ed Conroy connects the cultural nostalgia of Bob Barker's final Price Is Right era to the moment the internet stopped being a place you explored and became a place four corporations manage. Something Awful, Catterday, Grumpy Cat — the lineage is weirder and more deliberate than most people realize.
The word meme is a shortening of a Greek word meaning "that which is imitated." A researcher in the 1970s decided it was too long and cut it. From the…
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