-
Posted
Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:27 PM
| By
Christopher Beam
Feb. 14: Barack Obama was your new bicycle.
Feb. 16: Hillary Clinton was decidedly not.
Feb. 17: John McCain tried to get in on the joke.
Feb. 17: Ron Paul made it weird.
Feb. 17: Michelle Obama made it annoying.
Feb. 18: Steve Jobs made it jump the shark.
Feb. 19: It all went meta.
One week: That's how much time an Internet meme needs to propagate, become its
own opposite, and then finally collapse back in on itself.
All dates come from Network Solutions domain registration information.