{"id":182,"date":"2010-10-27T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-11-01T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T19:30:49","slug":"posts-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Posts of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tim has only recently discovered the Leroy Jenkins meme and, with it, several other classic YouTube recordings from or about <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>.  He never played WoW.  For a computer gamer, that alone is unusual, but for a fan of computer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153RPGs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like <em>Diablo<\/em> and <em>Fallout<\/em>, it&#8217;s downright bizarre.  So now we&#8217;re getting periodic email asking whether we&#8217;ve seen this or that video.  Of course we have.  We played WoW.  Which is why Tim figures the videos might be of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Internet memes that go viral have much in common with top ten hits a generation ago: entertaining once, twice, maybe ten or twelve times if you want to sneak back and memorize them for geeky quotation purposes, but sooner or later you just wish they&#8217;d go away, perhaps that they&#8217;d never been made in the first place.  And it&#8217;s slightly weird to have someone come by years later, totally unaware that it was played at all, much less overplayed to the point of eye-rolling, and ask, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, have you ever heard this song?  It&#8217;s awesome.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I wonder if readers of the 18th century were occasionally surprised to be asked whether they&#8217;d ever heard of this Shake-spear guy, it&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>late to the meme party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}