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a little internet history on lolcats for y'all!
mages portraying cats in human-like situations with captions date as far back as the 1860s, when a
Brighton photographer named Henry Pointer began publishing a
carte-de-visite series. Later, in the early 20th century,
Harry Whittier Frees published novelty postcards and children's books with such images of animals dressed in human clothing.
[12][13] The first recorded use of the term "lolcat" is from the anonymous
imageboard 4chan sometime around 2005.
[14][15][16] The word "Lolcat" is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name "LOLcats.com" was registered on June 14, 2006.
[17] Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as
Something Awful.
[18] The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'." Ikenburg adds that the images have been "slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they didn't become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of
I Can Has Cheezburger?"
[19] The first image on "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?" was posted on January 11, 2007 and was allegedly from the
Something Awful website."
[20][21] Lev Grossman of
Time wrote that the oldest known example "probably dates to 2006,"
[22] but later corrected himself in a blog post
[23] where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of "Caturday" and many of the images now known by a few as "lolcats" in early 2005. The domain name "caturday.com" was registered on April 30, 2005.
copy n paste form wikipedia! and of course tyhe original site:
Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?