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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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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And loud. And fragile.

Thumbdrives have a firmware, you could easily make them read-only. And also add your inconvenient DRM snake oil, if you will.

But no, cloud promises more $$$ through lock-in.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thumb drives also have very poor retention. If they aren’t used at least every few years the storage becomes corrupted.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

GameBoy?/Nintendo cardridges also had a small battery.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if video game prices were affected by the memory shortages?

But is this not how switch1 games were, just read only sdcards with the game on them.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

Nintendo loves a cartridge, and goddamnit sticking with them was right.