We love memes and soundbites. The internet vibrates with them. However, 100 years ago, the practice of creating, collecting and sharing memes would have appalled the educated folk. 200, the same; 300, 400, 500 years ago, they would have still been appalled.
600 years ago, however, and 1,000 years before that, they would have loved them.
In fact, the medie…
