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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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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, and famously the ancient Egyptians used steam power for religious trickery and to open a pair of doors to one of their temples.

The trick is that without much better metallurgy and pipework, it wasn't possible to create the kind of high pressure needed for a steam engine.

Same thing goes for evolution. The rough concept had been around for a while; it took until "deep time"(earth being billions of years old) was proven that we knew that life actually had the kind of time needed to evolve.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The first useful industrial widespread steam engines we low pressure water pumps weren't they?

High pressure only came later

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The Greeks invented it like 2000 years earlier than that.