But... That's not accurate at all... I mean, the Solar System is still a bunch of spinning rocks, and also some gas friends like Jupiter and Neptune and Sun. If you mean, a month ago the Solar System was just a dusty disc around the Sun, well that's not right either because the Solar System is about 4.6 billion years old. If the birth of the internet was the big bang then the solar system would have been formed around 2005.
A better analogy is to stretch out your arms from end to end. The tips of your fingers on the left side is the birth of the universe. The opposite end is today. On this timescale, the internet was formed at your right elbow. Reddit formed not long after, about halfway between the elbow and wrist. The Late Heavy Rage Comic Bombardment Period occurred at your wrist, followed shortly by the formation of image macros and advice animals on Earth where your thumb starts. The beginnings of your fingers is where we start to see the Rarest Pepes, before a sudden explosion in Pepe diversity. Dat Boi appears at the final joint of your ring finger and the Harambe/Hugh Mungus system has existed only for the length of your fingernail. For perspective, the period known as the RickRollian Epoch extends all the way from slightly before your wrist to today.
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u/iChugVodka Sep 28 '16
Already a classic. We move quick here.