Meme: jQuery
Originator: Unknown (possibly Ólafur Waage)
Cultural Height: TBD
Background: A StackOverflow-centric meme, jQuery begin its career early on as the answer to beat for any question that even remotely referenced JavaScript. It's popularity became so great that eventually jQuery became the default answer to any potential question on StackOverflow no matter how ridiculous.
Usage: "Hey, I see you are trying to connect to that Oracle database using C++. You should totally drop that and try jQuery."
See Also: Greasemonkey (Meta equivalent)