Memes: The origin of the phrase

The first use of the word 'Meme' was in 1976 when a man by the name of Richard Dawkins invented this word to use in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. He used this word to describe human behavior and how information spreads.

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                                                     He sparked a revolution.





Dawkins was born in Kenya but later moved to England - where his parents are from. Despite being born in Kenya, he is a British citizen.

 Dawkins is aware that his word is used widely throughout the internet and recently defined the word to suit the term 'Internet Meme'. He said very simply that a meme is "a hijacking of the original idea".

What do we learn from all this? That the origin of the word Meme comes from Britain obviously. Richard Dawkins is a very smart guy who has influenced millions, even billions of lives all over the world. I he hadn't invented this word, this blog would probably be called something else - probably 'The Geography of Internet Trends'. Or this blog might not even exist, because there is something so catchy about the word 'meme' that I might not be interested enough in the subject to write a blog about it.

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                                                       He was also on Doctor Who, so that's cool.