Been online and on forums since '99 or '00 and can confirm that gaming communities online have deteriorated in the past ~4 years due to memes. Memes all suck. Yes, no exceptions. If it's a meme it's shit and you would have been better off stating what you intended to state in plain English or whichever language you were communicating in.
I'm pretty sure replying to anti-meme posts with memes qualifies as a meme at this point. Doesn't get more predictable than that.
Multi Uswr Dungeon - predecessor to mmorpg. It plays on a command line and you can chat with other players. Its not too late to start MUDding!AOL had no memes because you couldn't post pictures in posts. We all should have appreciated AOL more.
MUD? What's a MUD?
Memes are not some kind of recent phenomenon. OP's claimed halcyon days of the internet were plagued with All Your Base, Mr. T Ate My Balls, Hamsterdance, l33t speak, and all the other memes of its day. It's an inevitable result of mass media. In the TV era they were called "catchphrases."
Also:
The roughest period was probably the reign of the "Le" comics.
Meme's have been around a lot longer than the last 4 years
Not in any of the good forums. Now they're even in the good forums.
Before 4 years ago, the only time I saw memes come up is when people made fun of the kind of people that wanted to post memes.
Meme's have been around a lot longer than the last 4 years
Not in any of the good forums. Now they're even in the good forums.
Before 4 years ago, the only time I saw memes come up is when people made fun of the kind of people that wanted to post memes.
Define "good forums"
Hey, OP's been internetting since 2000! What are you old timer, huh?What's this revisionist crap? Memes have always been a thing on the internet.
Yes, in 1976.It just became a word at some point.
It just became a word at some point. Before MEME people were replying in catchphrases on usenet.
Guys like him have been around as long as the public internet as well.I do think that cultural artifacts like memes are being leveraged in pop culture to take our focus off of more important, longer-term stuff. Like how to displace the rich, old white guys running this show.
If we had to pick a meme worthy of Shakespeare what would it be?Memes are sort of like puns. They can be funny, but not everyone is Shakespeare, so you end up with an overwhelming amount of unfunny trash.