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Celebrating OneWebDay (Internet meme edition)

// September 22nd, 2009 // Tech News

Today is OneWebDay , started in 2006 as a time to celebrate the many ways that our lives have been ensnared in improved by the Web. Events are scheduled throughout the world, including: A documentary and discussion on copyright in Milwaukee A broadband policy panel on Capitol Hill in Washington A New York City rally with an Iranian political activist Elected officials and a Cajun band in Lafayette A public forum with Mitch Kapor in Berkeley A panel on the city’s federal broadband grant in Philadelphia. While those events certainly sound exciting, let’s face it—the Web’s greatest single contribution to worldwide culture has been its ridiculous capacity for meme construction, elevating time-wasting pictures and videos to an art form. So on this OneWebDay, we offer a Salute to Recent Internet Memes, starting of course with Kanye West.