/me-met' iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculATive endeavor, though the first steps toward AT least stATistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculATion among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new informATion ecologies in which memes live and replicATe. [Jargon File] (2000-01-09)