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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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[–] kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 175 points 2 days ago (19 children)

The yellow one was for businesses. Residential phone numbers and often addresses where in the white book.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Legitimate question, why do people keep typing "where" instead of "were"? Many typos are understandable where letters that are next to each other accidentally get swapped, but you have to go out of your way to put the h in there.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Autocorrect seems to have gotten noticably worse for me in recent years. I regularly find that the entirely correct words which I type out get changed to something completely different because the autocorrect decided that I couldn't possibly mean that word. It regularly helpfully replaces entire words after I hit space and have moved on to the next. By that time, I'm usually focused on the next word, so slip-ups that I almost never make at a dumb keyboard (like its vs. it's, there vs. their, your vs. you're, or were vs. where vs. wear) happen with shocking regularity unless I proofread the entire comment. As a perfect example, I had to proofread and fix multiple instances of such while typing those examples.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I switched mine off a while back and even though I'm now fully responsible for my own terrible spelling and grammar, I'm pretty sure both have actually improved since.

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