History tells the story of everything that came before us—and sometimes what happened just last week. Occasionally, we even witness it unfolding in real-time. These days, the world moves so fast it’s ...

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme ...

Learning history doesn’t always have to be done the traditional way, through textbooks and classrooms. In the digital age, memes are also a good source of information, providing some humor and levity.

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme ...

The meme category online is ever expanding, from classic cat memes to clever nerdy ones, there’s truly no shortage of laughs for everyone. But today, we’re taking a fun detour into the past with a ...

The said meme, which is a format-dependent joke, usually of a picture with a subtitle or caption, had a printed date of 1919 and 1920, but it was believed to have been published in 1921. The meme had ...

When you look up the hashtag #Karen on Instagram, a search that yields over 773,000 posts, the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera, pursing ...

Remember Pepe the Frog? Or the blinking guy meme? Or the French Revolution Meme? Well, how did everything start and how exactly did they become funny? These memes all originally started as ideas that ...

Editor’s note: Salon celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Since being founded in 1995 (under the much-worse domain salon1999.com), Salon has published over 300,000 articles; as one of the first ...

Before Harambe died, he was just a gorilla. Now, he’s meme history. How did a zoo animal become the centerpiece of ironic Internet culture in 2016? The answer involves Black Lives Matter, celebrity ...