I Swear By My Tattoo
“As the crow flies / It’s there the truth lies / At the bottom of the well.” ~ Tom Waits, “Starving In the Belly of a Whale”
Does anyone know if the Twitter Fail Whale is a reference to the old infamous exploding whale meme?
This curiosity raises another question — one I asked a friend recently — what’s the oldest internet meme you can remember? I’m thinking “Spam” but that may merely be the oldest one that still survives. Wikipedia credits “spam” use on the interwebs back to the 1980s and pre-AOL BBS days. That feels right, but…hmmm.
Complicating matters is that I’m not sure how widely spread some of the things I’m familiar with from BBS days went into public consumption. Back and forth battles over how torch light would affect characters with infra- and ultra-vision in first edition may have merely been fights my friends and I posted on BBS’s local to our geekdom.
Wait a minute…you played First edition and didn’t every tell me……cries. I didn’t know you were one of my people too! a D&D nerd. I love you.
Commented by CronoCloud Creeggan on March 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM