Lolcats, "I Can Has Cheezburger?" | Salon Life
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The lolcats, the Internet's most famous felines, may be hilarious. But in their yearning, I see nothing less than the tragedy of the human condition.

Oh, *chan...

A humorous response to a post of a a picture of a cat by a user named "Metallica" who quoted "Sandman" Image - af20907621cbf76cee7547eco9.jpg (JPEG Image, 718x7360 pixels)

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oldest lolcat

funny lolcat

This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we’ve seen.