# Where can I download a Venn Diagram maker and a meme generator?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 19, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140 "2016-05-19T01:49:34Z")
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/1 "2016-05-19T01:49:34Z")
Forgive me my computer illiteracy. Where can I download them without a virus?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/2 "2016-05-19T02:15:48Z")
I apologize, but I was taught how to make, and logically define them, on paper, in the sixth grade, a decade before I saw a computer. Where were you in 1965, and why do you need software? 😕
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/3 "2016-05-19T02:25:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> I apologize, but I was taught how to make, and logically define them, on paper, in the sixth grade, a decade before I saw a computer. Where were you in 1965, and why do you need software? 😕
I was born in 1970. I need them for Internet.
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/4 "2016-05-19T02:26:09Z")
I would use a program called Inkscape, which is a general vector art program. You can safely download it from its homepage: [Draw Freely | Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/en/)
What is paper?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/5 "2016-05-19T02:38:49Z")
> [@CCitizen](#):
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> I was born in 1970. I need them for Internet.
Despite when I was taught it, I didn’t USE Set Theory until the late 1990s. I take it you aren’t a Computer Science student. 😉
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/6 "2016-05-19T02:39:26Z")
> [@Palooka](#):
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> What is paper?
Old school computer. Programing and running a program was done with a “pencil” or “pen”, both a primitive form of touchscreen stylus.
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/7 "2016-05-19T03:10:31Z")
> [@Palooka](#):
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> I would use a program called Inkscape, which is a general vector art program. You can safely download it from its homepage: [Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/en/)
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> What is paper?
Thanks – downloaded.
Where can I get a meme generator? Where is the best place to store my memes?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/8 "2016-05-19T04:49:08Z")
Memes, being cultural ideas, are generated by your brain. Sometimes the term is short for “internet meme.”
But I assume you mean the (frustrating) new definition of meme, a picture with overlaid text, usually in Impact font? Those are called [image macros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro). They are a \*type \*of Internet meme, but then so are videos like Charlie Bit Me and Gangam Style.
[Here’s the google list](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=image+macro+generator), I don’t have a specific one to recommend. The imgur link can probably combine creation and hosting.
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/9 "2016-05-19T05:52:15Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Memes are generated by your brain.
Okay, but where I can download a brain?
Preferably one without viruses.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/10 "2016-05-19T06:11:31Z")
The OP may be interested in Gimp, which is a professional level image manipulation program. Admittedly real pros use Adobe Photoshop because they can.
> **[GIMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP)**
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> GIMP (/ɡɪmp/ GHIMP; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way.
> GIMP is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
> In 1995, Spencer Kimball an...
> **[GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/)**
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> GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/11 "2016-05-19T06:13:24Z")
> [@chappachula](#):
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> Okay, but where I can download a brain?
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> Preferably one without viruses.
> 🙂
My friend is selling one. Her email is abby.normal at fronkensteen dot com.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/12 "2016-05-19T09:49:46Z")
Brain? Brain? What is “brain?”
Sent from my LG-V410 using Tapatalk
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/13 "2016-05-19T10:31:24Z")
I have used this meme generator several times:
[imgflip](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)
mmm
ETA: Once you click ‘generate meme’, right-click it and save it to your hard drive.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/14 "2016-05-19T20:38:03Z")
[quote=“Palooka, post:4, topic:755140”]
I would use a program called Inkscape, which is a general vector art program. You can safely download it from its homepage: [https://inkscape.org/en/.../QUOTE](https://inkscape.org/en/.../QUOTE)]
Ditto thanks.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/15 "2016-05-19T21:02:24Z")
Or, you know, MS Paint.
You want to draw two partially overlapping circles, possibly with some shading, and add some text?
Welcome to MS paint. It can do that. You had the power to draw a circle within you all along!
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/16 "2016-05-19T21:19:08Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I have used this meme generator several times:
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> [imgflip](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)
> mmm
> ETA: Once you click ‘generate meme’, right-click it and save it to your hard drive.
Thanks a lot! My first meme has been generated.
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/17 "2016-05-19T21:31:44Z")
> [@CCitizen](#):
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> Thanks – downloaded.
And uninstalled – too much 4 simple tasks on a simple computer.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/18 "2016-05-20T03:30:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Old school computer. Programing and running a program was done with a “pencil” or “pen”, both a primitive form of touchscreen stylus.
Pshaw! When I started out in programming, we etched our programs directly into 80-column cards with an X-Acto Knife!
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-a-venn-diagram-maker-and-a-meme-generator/755140/19 "2016-05-20T03:49:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Pshaw! When I started out in programming, we etched our programs directly into 80-column cards with an X-Acto Knife!
Heh! Awfully damn near! We had 80 column cards with the holes pre-die-cut (Florida ballots!) and you punched 'em out with a stylus into a special receiver that had grooves under the holes. You ended up with a mob-ton of chads. (We called it “chaff” in the day; there wasn’t a singular noun for it, any more than there’s a singular noun for water.)