Words (arguably our primary form of information) could be understood entirely separate from their storage media.

Long before it became the primary vehicle for distributing music and video, the Internet slowly taughtusers that words (arguably our primary form of information) could be understood entirely separate from their storage media. Meme theory had been around since 1976, but it took the Internet for memes tostart making intuitive sense.Meanwhile in Russia. Eliot Borenstein.Could you please intepret the bolded in other words, I wonder how words can bunderstood entirely separate from their storage media. Thanks a lot.