Or, for you sticklers out there, four years earlier with Baby Cha-Cha, at the time simply known as “Dancing Baby” because we had no idea that the internet would wind up being so full of dancing babies videos that we’d need to be very specific about which one we were referring to. To be fair, the word “ meme” itself was first coined by English biologist, author, and well-known God hater Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which sounds like a kids’ story about DNA but totally isn’t.īut the internet meme as we know it today didn’t really get cooking until around the year 2000, with a little thing called “ All Your Base Are Belong to Us”.
But to this day, Simpsons memes are universally relevant on the internet, even after 29 seasons. Depending on when you’re counting from, The Simpsons predates meme culture by seven to thirteen years.
