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If you spend a lot of time on the Internet you will almost certainly have come across one of the memes that appeared this year.  So as a round up of the years events I thought that I would do a list of the best memes of 2008.

But first, what is a meme?  The term was created by biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins in 1976 to describe a unit of cultural information that acts like a gene.  A good meme will start off as an idea, which people will send to their friends.  This is then copied and changed into other themes, sometimes quite different form the starting point. It can remember the “all your base are belong to us” thing from a while back then you get the idea.

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Philip Norton
Lead Developer, Research and Development