Historical memes/shitposting/anonymity

Anonymous

1/5/2016 05:28:00 No. 22 09fe70 [Preview] [Reply]

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The whole "Rome was built on the backs of shitposters" threads on /his/ and /v/ got me thinking, do we have any other examples of imageboard-esque culture and memes throughout history that are similar to the ones today? It's hilarious and awe-inspiring to see how people from different times and cultures throughout all human existence often had a lot of things in common if you look deep enough.
I sometimes wonder if there was a historical equivalent of baneposting.

Anonymous

1/5/2016 06:40:00 No. 23 [Preview] [Reply]

> I sometimes wonder if there was a historical equivalent of baneposting.
Religion?

Anonymous

1/5/2016 11:58:00 No. 25 08e239 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/22/
Inkhorn terms were the 16th century equivalent of Sonic fandom.

Anonymous

1/5/2016 21:12:00 No. 28 09fe70 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/25/
I'd say they were more like weebs for whatever language their words of choice came from.

Anonymous

2/14/2016 21:32:00 No. 274 f86718 [Preview] [Reply]

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 >>/23/

Anonymous

2/14/2016 21:50:00 No. 275 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/22/
> implying all other religions are not different ways of looking at Nolan's truth

Anonymous

6/23/2016 00:18:00 No. 353 c129f2 [Preview] [Reply]

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 >>/22/
> historical equivalent of baneposting

Anonymous

6/23/2016 01:42:00 No. 354 fba1c0 [Preview] [Reply]

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Dadaists wrote poetry kinda similarly to how /b/ does.

Also annotations monks left on the books their copied could be considered examples of historical shitposting.

"Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink"

Anonymous

6/23/2016 05:28:00 No. 355 b2e903 [Preview] [Reply]

It all makes sense now... we are the next Romans! This time we must learn from history's mistakes and make an even better Reic- I mean empire.

Anonymous

6/23/2016 05:44:00 No. 356 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/354/
> for Christ's sake give me a drink"

Is that in the picture? I can barely read it

Anonymous

6/23/2016 06:46:00 No. 357 fba1c0 [Preview] [Reply]

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 >>/356/
nah, just some unrelated monk memes

Anonymous

6/24/2016 05:46:00 No. 360 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/357/
dob geg

Anonymous

7/19/2016 22:40:00 No. 361 fba1c0 [Preview] [Reply]

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Anonymous

7/19/2016 23:57:00 No. 362 cd2aad [Preview] [Reply]

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 >>/22/
Epics from the Greeks and Romans?

The Iliad, for example, was performed by actors memorizing and repeating the same lines every night they performed

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