What triggered this meme?

and.. countless other images.

Update: Hint: Think French!

I like 3 the most. Subtle and awesome :)

Hint: This meme is not from the US and definitely not from 4chan!

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What’s the strange object above?

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The news aggregation website launched by this guy turned 5 years old recently and he is regarded as one of the most influential people on the web for the sheer amount of traffic his site can drive. Who he?

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This man coined a term, that, some believe, is the the root of the word “internet”. Who he?

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Supposedly the first of its kind. What is this? What is the guy talking about?

It was in news very recently.
Video link for the Flash Challenged.

P.S: Someone please do a video editor startup and make an editor that does not suck. KTHXBAI.
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What recent (well, relatively) discovery connects? We’re looking for a specific object.

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Game developers and photographers are very fond of using technique X to achieve the exact opposite effects as illustrated in the image below. What is X?

Hint: Photographers use it while exposing pictures and game developers use it while rendering games.
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A simple question (with a slightly long answer?). Why was this device named so?

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Some ingenious dude(et) did this to a cycle track in a big US city. Where are these symbols from?

Sorry about the delay people. Long weekend here :)

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An image doing the rounds on the net. Someone (X) is using this to explain something (Y). Solve for X and Y.

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