The first meme was created in Japan in 1989!

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/first-meme-ever

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"Born around the year 2000, the meme -- mocking a shoddy English translation of a 1989 Japanese Sega Genesis game, Zero Wing -- ripped through message boards, ended up on cheese-tastic local news segments, and helped ignite the spicy meme inferno we live in today. It's generally considered to be the world's first "image macro" meme -- that "white block letters on an image" look is the precursor to what we generally think of as modern memege."

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