Internet memes are created in deep, dark parts of the Internet. Around the time of All Your Base Are Belong To Us, the majority of memes came from SomethingAwful.com’s forums. At least since lolcats almost all of them have come from 4chan.org. It is an inscrutable place; one cannot go to 4chan to learn about Internet memes.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is a wiki that tracks and documents Internet memes, and therefore I find it invaluable for being hip. Unfortunately, every page on Encyclopedia Dramatica is one link away from Not Safe For Work material. And by NSFW, I don’t mean porn, I mean violates Canada’s Hate Speech laws. So I usually avoiding linking to it.

I just discovered a sister project to Encyclopedia Dramatica that aims to filter out the NSFW material: WhatPort80.com (port 80 is the part of the Internet that the web runs on). It still contains entries like pedobear, but the Internet is the Internet.