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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

True story.

This is back in the 1960s. A Texas bank is putting up a new building and sets up a temporary office in a trailer. There's a one ton safe in the trailer. A crook figures that a dozen strong guys would have no problem lifting the safe by hand and carrying it out. He puts together a team and they do the job. Something goes wrong and they end up dropping the safe. One crook's finger is caught under the safe. He manages to get away, but when the police lift the safe they find his finger tip. And yes, they had his fingerprints on file.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Fingerprint matching in the 60s sounds, uh, time intensive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

If you want to go down a rabbithole, look up the early days of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

Hoover got the job because he was a bureaucrat, not a lawman. He would have his people build giant files by hand on anyone of interest.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Doesn't matter, got fingered