FYI, I like the steampunk board on mechachan. Maybe you can tell me the hidden political meaning of that forum?
It's because all the "paranoid militia" people started using the phrase "zombie attack" a hundred-thousand years ago, then the Pokemon/MTG Emo Chan children hopped on the bandwagon. They all (mistakenly) thought that all the big boys were actually talking about an actual zombie attack (really, who is that stupid? zombies? wtf?). Now we have this group of rejects that thinks it's cool to discuss actual zombies.
Uh, no. You are completely wrong and trying to twist things to suit your private agenda, as per usual.
We were making "send more paramedics" and other zombie ascii art in #breakfast, #christian-assmilk, and #asciipr0n on DAL circa '96-03. Most of "us" were the greater TO area cyberculture which comprised of Rogers Communication cubelings, a couple disciples of Steve "world's first cyborg" Mann (RIP Brandon "65535" James), electronica musicians (when you could make $15K/year off mp3.com without it being reported to the IRS or Canadian equivalent thereof, aka Danielle "Eller" Scott), among others. Greg Bristol was one, he was Jared Deskins' (of HT and Nissan tuning fame) childhood best friend. Tim, who wrote most of the code for del.icio.us and made about 3% of the payoff when they were bought out (he went for five years without a job). David "4096" Krupicz who did the rocketmen vs robots deal.
I was in the BBS scene at 8, and Fidonet as recently as 17 years ago, and I've pioneered some of the internet jargon you hear around (beyond being the most quoted person in the car scene) so I'm pretty goddamn sure of where these memes come from because they certainly aren't spread through commonplace socialization such as the bar scene, the workplace, or church. They come from - get this! -
zombie movies and the internet.
Holy shit, amirite or amirite?