Ever since I heard about in class on tuesday, and again at the begining of Limor Shifman's Article, I found it interesting that the word Meme first came about in 1976 by a biologist when it was described as a infection of sorts that spread from person to person, often times spreading along the way. Since I associate memes like they are now a day's, based more on the internet, it's easy to forget that they started making an apperence before the "digital era". I found it really interesting that Richard Dawkins, the biologist who coined the word Meme shorted the Greek mimema to rhyme with gene. It also somehow surprises me that the current use of memes began in 2008.
With Olia Lialina, it surprises me that even though she did her work in the 1990's, her use of "vernacular" internet is only becoming popular, or atleast a boom in it's popularity has arisen. It still surprises me that the people who were taking part in Net Art in the nintes had enough forsight to think that their work would be seen by more people now a day's, since not a whole lot of people had access to the internet then, and those that did, may not have been looking for it. I also find it interesting, and a bit funny, that by being called a Web Artist, one might get angry, but prefered being called a Net Artist.