2023年7月25日 · One of the first memes to gain widespread attention in the internet age was the Dancing Baby. Yes, it was that simple: an image, GIF or video of a computer-animated dancing baby.

2025年1月13日 · Meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation. The term ‘meme’ (from the Greek ‘mimema,’ meaning ‘imitated’) was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene. Learn …

Meme isn't new: it dates to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene, where it functioned with a meaning other than its current most common one. In Dawkins' conception of the term, it is "a unit of cultural transmission"—the cultural equivalent of a gene:

2024年11月29日 · According to many experts, the answer is "Dancing Baby", a 3D animated GIF of a baby dancing to a techno song. "Dancing Baby" was created in 1996 by John Lasseter, a animator at Pixar. "Dancing...

2020年10月8日 · How far back do memes go? What were the first internet memes? Learn more about Pepe the Frog's ancestors in this quick history.

2017年8月22日 · Born around the year 2000, the meme -- mocking a shoddy English translation of a 1989 Japanese Sega Genesis game, Zero Wing -- ripped through message boards, ended up on cheese-tastic local news...

2024年8月31日 · The 1990s saw the birth of the first internet memes, with notable examples like the “Dancing Baby” in 1996. This 3D-rendered, cha-cha dancing baby quickly went viral across email chains and early...

2024年3月20日 · In 1996, the "Dancing Baby" became one of the first widespread, mainstream memes, based on a widely spread animation of a diaper-wearing baby twirling around. The meme spread through email chains and became so popular that it was even referenced in an episode of The Simpsons in 2000.

2018年4月16日 · We investigate whether a comic from almost 100 years ago can accurately be called 'the first meme'.

2024年3月24日 · The word “meme” itself dates back decades before the digital era, coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 as a term for transmittable ideas that propagate cultural shifts – just as genes transmit biological information.