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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:00 am    Post subject: Here's How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s Reply with quote Back to top

Hundreds of long-forgotten texts that went viral in the 19th century are being discovered by a new collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists. The Infectious Texts project is mining digitized newspapers to identify these texts and study how they spread and the country grew and technology changed the flow of information.
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