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CNET: Top 10 Web Memes of Past 10 Years

CNET has a list of the top 10 Internet memes of the last 10 years, starting with Hampsterdance in 1998, and including Hot or Not, the wonderful, chubby Star Wars Kid, and Jib Jab's "This Land" in 2004.

What's your favorite?

Categories: Fun, Internet, Viral Marketing

BL Ochman | Jul 20 05 11:10 | TrackBack (1)

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My favorite has to be the Nigerian e-mail scam. I mean, who falls for that? Apparently, enough people so that it keeps going.

Ah, to be in a foreign country raking in the bucks from morons.

Posted by: PusBoy at July 20, 2005 11:42 AM

That is not a meme. That's just fraudulent and spam. A meme or a viral is something one person passes to another. People LIKE memes.

And yes, you do have to wonder, who answered the nigerians? Because if nobody did, why would they still be sending out the same spam?

Posted by: BL at July 20, 2005 2:30 PM

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Blogger, social media strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and sought-after corporate speaker B.L. Ochman heads the creative team of whatsnextonline.com. She also publishes the Ethics Crisis blog for SRF Global Translations

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