August 13, 2009

Early LOLcat Discovered

Via LanguageLog, an ancestor of modern LOLcats on a postcard from 1905:



Photographer Harry Whittier Frees took that photo and plenty of others, but his pioneering efforts went unnoticed for decades until the development of Impact font revolutionized the genre.

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