Internet memes

Internet memes

This category is for concepts (usually funny) or "internet inside jokes" that spread rapidly over the internet via social networking.

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The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks

Internet; Internet memes

A blog about the misuse of English quotation marks by Bethany Keeley. Bethany carries a camera phone with her at all times, taking photographs of signs, notes and advertisements that misuse quotation ...

Bonsai Kitten

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A satirical website containing instructions on how to grow a kitten in a jar, molding the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grew, much like a bonsai plant is shaped via ...

Boom goes the dynamite

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The nickname given to a college sportscast at Ball State University in March of 2005 that became an Internet sensation. Covering the March 22, 2005 NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the New ...

Susan Boyle

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A Scottish singer who came to the public's attention when she appeared as a contestant on reality TV programme Britain's Got Talent in 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Interest ...

Blazing Star

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A sequel to the Neo Geo home game system game Neo Geo Shooter Pulstar. It is a scrolling shooter video game. The game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI ...

Contagious media

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A term created by Jonah Peretti that describes how websites and emails can be spread via people at work being bored. This began when Peretti tried ordering personalised Nike shoes with the word ...

Cooks source infringement controversy

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In November 2010, when Cooks Source, a free, advertising-supported publication distributed in the New England, became the center of a copyright infringement dispute after the magazine reprinted an ...