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Was under construction the first web meme? All these people couldn't have arrived at the same metaphor individually (as obvious as it is).
by naz 16y ago
Was under construction the first web meme? All these people couldn't have arrived at the same metaphor individually (as obvious as it is).
- hartror 16y agoI remember back in `95 building websites that were basically just animated gifs, (no judging i was a kid). I used some under construction ones because I had seen it everywhere and I was constructing!
- lorax 16y agoHard to say if it was the first or not. It may have been "Here's my list of interesting web pages (most of them were probably links to other peoples lists of interesting pages, very recursive.)" I don't think the word meme existed then either.
- enf 16y agoThe word was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, but I don't know when it became well known.
- britta 16y agoCheck out http://www.metafilter.com/85695/Please-Be-Patient-This-Page-is-Under-Construction#2774563 http://www.metafilter.com/85695/Please-Be-Patient-This-Page-... for a person's story of how he made the first animated GIFs.
- pronoiac 16y agoHeh. I'd say that comment made it to Hacker News last year, but I already linked it in the Mefi thread! And then I got server push animation working on my server, & yes, it's really as hideous as people say.
- eli 16y agoKeep in mind that the idea of a document that might be different every time you pull it up was still kinda new. So maybe the "construction" part was a meme, but I think the idea that you needed to warn people that this homepage wasn't "finished" yet was universal.