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I am just wondering if the word "tube" has become a meme among different sharing (mainly video) sites. It did start off from YouTube but due to its popularity many sites inherited the Tube

Examples include:

• RedTube (and other adult-content sites)
• FilesTube
• GrooveTube
• SchoolTube
• FashionTube
• TestTube (the YouTube labs)

Even some "parodies":

• GooTube (from Google and YouTube)
• HuluTube

thoughts?

the word toob is not a meme but an internet word meaning "video site".
If we were to document every popular internet word, chan, blog Ect. would be memes

i guess you're right… just thought it would be considered "internet slang" or whatever but I got your point

=)

Yeah, and then we'd have to do one for -oogle.

Hmmm, I'm not sure if "tube" alone is enough to be an internet lingo, but it's certainly been used as a popular catchphrase.

"The internet is not a big truck. "It’s a series of tubes." – Ted Stevens

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/series-of-tubes

"The tube" is also (somewhat dated) slang for television.

It not THAT dated… Unless you count a few years as dated.

Well, slang ages in dog years.

@ HackerOnHacker That's true. If it didn't, we might still be saying "Let's get jiggy with it" or "That's what she said" all the time.
Oh wait…..

@blah,
Using "the tube" as slang for "TV" goes back more than just a few years. People started calling it "the tube" because that's what TV's were; cathode ray tubes.

The oldest thing I can find online is a reprint of an article from 1984
http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1984/06/06/05490039.h03.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1984/06/06/05490039.h03.html&levelId=2100

I think it probably goes back a lot further. I wouldn't be surprised if I turned on the Dick Van Dyke show and heard him say "the tube."

The tube thing seems like a marketing ploy like how Mac's "i"crap poured out into other things.

^ Agreed.

Do not talk about Tubgirl, DO NOT talk about Tubgirl.

Deal!

The internet is a series of toobs.