The first published case of the word meme (pronounced “Meem,” not me-me), dates back to Richard Dawkins' 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins referred to it as a “Mimeme”—a word derived from Greek that means “that which is imitated.” The word was then abbreviated to just “meme” due to its similarity to the word “gene.”
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