Comments on: How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s https://www.isegoria.net/2013/12/how-memes-went-viral-in-the-1800s/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:12:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Greer https://www.isegoria.net/2013/12/how-memes-went-viral-in-the-1800s/comment-page-1/#comment-1054524 T. Greer Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:25:55 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33651#comment-1054524 It used to be part of my daily routine to head over to the digital library of congress Historic American newspaper collection or Cornell’s Making of America Journal collection and read an article or two to start my day.

Even the stuff written for the proles in 1840 surpasses what you find on Upworthy today.

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