when i first started posting here, there was a thread (tsuwm started i think) about favorite words.. meme one was on the list (i remember grok and parallex were mine for sure,) i like meme too, --i first heard it about 10 years ago --i knew it for sure in 1994--maybe a bit before that-- but i don't remember who posted it as favorite..
you could look up when i became a member-- and start looking about that time.. (i don't know if search will pull it up, it was that long ago.)
ideas can perculate-gernerate-spread- through the world so that 'the same thing' shows up at the same time in different places (like radio's-- Marconni is one name i associate with radio's, but the was another person, who came up with the same concept at all most the same time)
it sometimes happens with new technologies.. ideas are born, in several places, at the same time, and spread through a system faster than other information... they take on a life of there own!
