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Proto-meme. So old it spread by print and cats didn't rule the internet.

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Proto-meme. So old it spread by print and cats didn't rule the internet.

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Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.

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Killroy is a repost of the Australian “Foo Was Here” meme.

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