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Laughingstock_378 on Instagram: "Memes are everywhere today, but their story goes back further than the internet. The word meme was coined in 1976 by biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene to describe how ideas and behaviors spread much like genes do. Back then, a meme could be anything—songs, sayings, even dances. With the rise of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, memes took on their modern form. Sites like Something Awful, YTMND, and Newgrounds hosted early viral jokes and