Research Table: The Behold The Field

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The Behold The Field meme is an item of internet culture, but it's also an item of English culture, dating back nearly a thousand years to the Norman Conquest. The unnamed women who stitched the nearly 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry were also combining images and words, dealing in stock characters.[Michael, Carrier. "BECAUSE of INTERNET: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW RULES OF LANGUAGE."]

The fashionable artwork of an old Victorian-era glorifies the England culture dating back to a millennium period when Norman domination was evident. Even with modifications made to the design by anonymous gifted women, the 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry has traces of what they held valuable or had a sacred attachment to. With keen artistry, the addition of images, words and stock characters still brings out beauty intended.

The author relates to the old fashioned art in a platform of technology. The author asserts that he dedicated his time in creating the embroidered masterpiece dedicated the same way he does create a meme. The reflection of the details in the piece reigns from England's culture. Bayeux Tapestry exposes this rich culture using evidence from different parts of the world like Ireland and Latin. A meme is a transition from oral culture to digital culture.

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Even after he retired, he kept a fax machine at home for years so his buddies could send him the latest jokes. He had a folder an inch thick with the best of them." My grandfather couldn't be said to have been an internet person: he had email for a while, but he never had a smartphone or a social media account anywhere, and yet there was an extended period when he was as into curating his meme collection as any teenage deniz...