Curated category
Internet memes
- Internet memeRichard Dawkins introduced the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene to describe how cultural units replicate and evolve.
- 4chanOn the 1st of October 2003, a fifteen-year-old student named Christopher Poole launched an English-language imageboard from his New York City bedroom.
- Darth MaulGeorge Lucas first imagined Darth Maul as a masked figure, something that could rival the iconic Darth Vader. Early concept art by Iain McCaig showed…
- Alex JonesAlexander Emerick Jones was born on the 11th of February 1974, in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Rockwall, a town located twenty-five miles east of the city.
- 15.aiIn 2016, an eighteen-year-old undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a research project that would eventually reshape how people…
- Shiba InuA fragment of a Jōmon period dogū with pointed ears, unearthed in Aomori Prefecture, reveals the deep prehistoric roots of this breed.
- DogecoinOn the 6th of December 2013, software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer introduced a new digital currency to the world.