Virus Lo siento!

[kilroy@...>]

El Martes 18 de Febrero de 1997 a las 13:25, Jose Luis Diaz de Arriba. le
escribi¢ a Escepticos. (en relaci¢n con "re: Virus   Lo siento!"):

 JA> Por cierto, no solo los correos que llevan "Good Times"(*) en el
 JA> subject son los que contienen el virus, sino todos los que llevan
 JA> "Good Times" en cualquier parte del mensaje, ya que esto significa
 JA> que el mensaje habla de el, y esta es precisamente la forma de
 JA> propagarse (y de causar danio) que tiene este virus.

A esto los hackers internetianos lo denominan "meme". He aqu” las definiciones
pertinentes (algo viejita pero siempre vigente) del "Jargon File" ("The on-line
hacker Jargon File, version 2.9.12, 10 MAY 1993".)

:meme: /meem/ [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea
considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize
people into propagating them much as viruses do.  Used esp. in the phrase `meme
complex' denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organized
belief system, such as a religion.  This lexicon is an (epidemiological) vector
of the `hacker subculture' meme complex; each entry might be considered a meme.
However, `meme' is often misused to mean `meme complex'.  Use of the term
connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and
language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has
superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.  Hackers
find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.

:meme plague: n. The spread of a successful but pernicious {meme}, esp. one
that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it.  Astrology,
BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples.  This
usage is given point by the historical fact that `joiner' ideologies like
Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited
plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small
reservoir populations.

G^is la revido!
            o-=š Kilroy š=-o

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