Me, me, meme…

The web is, of course, an extraordinary resource–  full of answers to questions that we’ve only just realized we had (though as Kevin Kelly points out, not exhaustively full; and even then, the source of many new questions …  At the same time, it’s a serendipitous source of surprise and delight… and in the sharing of those unexpected treasures– the creation of memes– the fabric of community, an emergent new social “language.”

So it’s a treat to take a stroll down memory lane, and to be reminded of memes-gone-by…  some, stepping off points to bigger and better things…

(Without this short circulating on the Web, there would be no South Park. Says Wikipedia: “Fox executive Brian Graden initially distributed the video to 80 friends in December 1995, one of the friends rumored to be George Clooney. Brian Boitano ended up getting a hold of the tape, and was apparently flattered by his depiction. After months of being passed around on bootleg video and the Internet, the film caught the attention of cable network Comedy Central. The network hired the pair to develop South Park, which premiered in the USA on August 13, 1997.”)

And some, like “The Star Wars Kid,” altogether ephemeral (albeit inspirational– pace Stephen Colbert)…

See them all– from the LOL Cats to Tom Cruise bouncing on Oprah’s couch– located  at Internet Memes…  And remember: All Your Base Are Belong to Us!