At the age of 20, I was in my second year of my BSc in Multimedia at DCU in Dublin, Ireland. We were given an assignment in one of our Media Culture classes to invent a meme. I took this very seriously, and made a controversial website depicting one of Ireland's most beloved TV stars (a puppet by the name of Bosco) as a sort of arch-villain.
The site earned me a spot in a national tabloid newspaper, a lot of confused emails from the public and top marks in my class!