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The BBC Online has an interesting article comparing WWII's "Kilroy was here" to All your base are belong to us. Both are examples of memes which the Internet has allowed to spread like wildfire. A meme is described as:

Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives.

posted on Monday, May 07, 2001 9:10 PM Print

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