| First Internet Meme | Year |
|---|---|
| Baby Chacha | 1996 |
| First Meme | Year |
| Comic Meme | 1921 |
Baby Chacha was one of the first ever internet memes. It became very popular in the year 1996. It is also known as the Dancing Baby. The software that produced the meme was called Character Studio. It took multiple people and a significant amount of time to create, which is very different from most memes today.
This meme diffused through E-mail. A staffer, Ron Lussier, sent an E-mail of the file to a few co-workers. They sent the meme to some of their friends, and in a short amount of time, countless E-mail chains had caused Baby-Chacha to go viral. People began to make their own Baby Chachas.
One of the first ever memes was a popular comic meme format, which debuted in 1921. This was different from most memes today, because it did not diffuse through the internet. The actual content of the memes looked similar to that of memes today. The Comic Meme was discovered when a user uploaded a picture of it to Twitter. It is now widely recognized as the first meme ever.
Some social media users have revived this meme into the modern world. People have modified the pictures and added captions such as "If you don't like me at my... then you don't deserve me at my..."
There is some controversy as to whether or not the 1921 comic meme is the first meme or even a meme at all. For a meme to be a meme, it has to diffuse rapidly. It can't just be an image. The comic meme did not do this. There also have been some images from the years 1920 and 1919 that also may be the first attempts at a meme.