Trying to pinpoint the earliest internet meme is like trying to discern the first written word, or the first time someone sliced a loaf of bread; a futile effort, but one that unearths fascinating ...

Memes are ideas that spread from brain to brain and have elements of culture or system behavior. Arguably, the first meme was created in the early 1920s, and published by the University of Iowa in a ...

The said meme, which is a format-dependent joke, usually of a picture with a subtitle or caption, had a printed date of 1919 and 1920, but it was believed to have been published in 1921. The meme had ...