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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean no website back then was telling you to block them if you want. They just didn't use javascript to detect blockers.

Also web hosting has gone WAY up. My simple static website used to cost $5 per month to host. Now it's $30 for the same spec server. The ones that are closer to $5 are so insanely oversold and slow, a website takes a good 30-45 seconds to load.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you have millions of hits per month or your "static site" is Wordpress with a page builder, you might want to look into other web hosting offers. A VPS is overkill for a static site, and you can get a decent VPS for $10-$12 range. With enough bandwidth and io to host many static websites.

[–] Chobbes 4 points 1 year ago

You can easily host a static website on a dirt cheap VPS. The Hetzner ARM boxes are less than $5/mo with an IPv4 address and are going to be more than sufficient for the average static website... My website is on a cheap VPS with worse specs than the Hetzner ones and it does not take 30-45 seconds to load.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A true static site can use GitHub Pages for free hosting (probably other options, too -- never checked). That's what I do for my ultra low traffic personal site (at least, I assume ultra low -- I don't install any tracking on principle). I pay for a domain and that's it (and that's just to look nicer, not actually necessary).

[–] meliaesc 1 points 1 year ago

I've being using Netlify, it's really professionally feature rich, and the free tier is more than enough for my needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know websites that did, or at least remember an admin saying "please turn off ad blockers if you want to support the site"