music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen Brock Johnson: A few years ago, a man named Phil Edwards was looking for a secret treasure from World War II, even though he felt no real deep connection to World War II. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. An online database of "Kilroy Was Here" sightings.Kilroy's roots in Quincy, Massachusetts.Phil Edwards' Vox explainer, " The World War II meme that circled the world".In the first episode of our meme series, we tell the story of where "Kilroy Was Here" came from, how it spread, and what it tells us about the essence of memes. And, more surprisingly, the image that's often considered to "the first meme" appeared as early as the 1940s.Ī figure with a bulbous head and sausage fingers, peering over a wall, mysteriously popped up all over the globe during World War II, accompanied with three simple words: “Kilroy Was Here.” The phrase’s original meaning may come from the belly of warships, but what it came to represent bears many characteristics of a true-blue internet meme. But the term “meme” was coined in the 1970s - before the birth of the internet - by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. We often think of memes as living solely online. Facebook Email (Rory Panagatopolis for WBUR)
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