Memes and GIFs

We see hundreds of them in a day! But how did Memes and GIFs get their names? Did they exist before social media? And what on earth is the correct way to pronounce GIF??

We'll answer these and more questions as we look at the histories of these internet giants. Watch for detours into the "web" of the 90s!

Sources:

Websites:

www.techipages.com
www.dictionary.com
www.waybackmachine.com
www.britannica.com
www.knowyourmeme.com
www.burnyourgifs.org

Articles:
https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/ 

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/15/15802136/gif-turns-30-evolution-internet-history

https://digitalcommunications.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2019/06/14/what-is-a-gif-file/ 

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/53242/when-did-we-start-talking-about-going-viral 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-gif-early-internet-innovation-ubiquitous-relic-180963543/ 

Books:
Dawkins, R. (1978). The Selfish Gene (New Ed). Oxford University Press.

Mina, A. X. (2019). Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power (Illustrated ed.). Beacon Press. 
https://www.amazon.com/Memes-Movements-Worlds-Changing-Protest/dp/0807056588/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=memes+to+movements&qid=1627915068&sr=8-2 


Music:
Market by PeriTune | http://peritune.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Deep Woods3 by PeriTune | http://peritune.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Sound:
"angry mob loop. aiff" by bevibeldesign
https://freesound.org/people/bevibeldesign/sounds/316640/ 

"keyboard cat behind the scenes!"
Keyboardcat2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Th2QoHd2o&t=20s