The "memeing dossie"

It's friday, apr 30, and, as usual, I oppened Straw and start reading all the news stuff I always read. And when I was reading the "Planet Debian" and "Planet Gnome" news feeds I was surprised by a weird "I am" invasion.

Of course, this is one of that curious things that we'll never forget, like the "Duelling Banjos" freak loop (it's weird to think that many real people asked debian-devel about a sheet music).

As I am more curious than the event, I started to trace down when it started. As far as I could reach, only three planets where invaded by "I am": "Advogato", "Debian" and "Gnome".

The first "I am" hit I found was in Advogato, and according to the first post that says something the first hits where in hadess, mjcox, gary and dwmw2 diaries. This is presented at markmc blog (http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/blog) who also posted "I am". All these "I am"s where followed by a redhat logo. Apparently result of the anual meeting of RedHat company.

The first response was from Crozat, that replaced the RedHat logo for a Mandrake logo, since Mandrake company also had its annual meeting. Then it started... everybody posting "I am"s all over the way, specially on Advogato, but replicated by "Planet Debian" and "Planet Gnome".

Then it was no more distro-specific. Jeff Waugh placed its hackergochi after the "I am" thing. seb128 replaced by a question mark. Mikael Hallendal replaced the I of "I am" with the imendio logo. Ross Burton, changed it back to "I am Me". Bryan Forbes followed Jeff Waugh. And finally, Todd Troxell posted the last "memeing" stuff I saw:

"oh no! Planet Debian has started memeing! $deity save us.
xtat@port:~$ whoami
xtat"

Well... that's it...

ruoso@cedro:~$ whoami
ruoso