ExecutedToday.com. You Are Not So Smart. ZOMBO. Know Your Meme. About On the afternoon of Saturday October 30th, 2010 Reddit users began responding to all posts that included the word “waffles” with the puzzling phrase Waffles? Don’t you mean carrots? HAHAHAHA. Origin The sudden trend in waffle/carrot discussion was a ploy to confuse Reddit users who had been attending that afternoon’s Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington into thinking a new meme had been created while they were distracted. LETS MAKE UP A POINTLESS MEME WHILE THE HARDCORE REDDITORS ARE AWAY. Though other ideas were thrown into the mix, such as adding “robo-” to the beginning of words and typing comments in Spanish, the original idea turned out to be favored more so than the rest, and caught on quickly. Examples Spread By the end of the day Google Trends showed a spike in searches for the word “waffles” between 12pm and 6pm, making it one of the most searched words that day.
Soon, the phrase was appearing on other websites other than Reddit. Accidental Memification Response. Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana. After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two.
But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. Baloney. Consider today's online world. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Won't the Internet be useful in governing?
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