In the News What are memes – and how do they get kids in trouble?
By 1994, online observer and lawyer Mike Godwin wrote in Wired magazine about the ways the Internet was especially conducive to spreading these viral ideas. Godwin famously created one of earliest viral Internet memes, Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies, which states “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
