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The first meme was a drawing of a cat with the caption “same…
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The first meme was a drawing of a cat with the caption “same.” Ancient and accurate.
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The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. Internet memes came much later, and no ancient cat drawing with the caption same exists in records.
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