Ben Huh – icanhascheezburger

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:45:10 +0000

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Ben Huh is a tinkerer. He’s been screwing things up at home, school and work since finding a keyboard. Despite his training as a journalist – and the-right-way-to-spell – he runs I Can Has Cheezburger? Because, laughing at lolcats is a lot more fun than writing about PTA elections.

In the early days, many of the earlier images on this site were found around the internet and forums, such as 4chan, fark, fazed, vwforums, gpforums.

The practice of captioning (specifically, cats) started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and the actual type of these images was termed “Caturday”.

This word has since detached from it’s original context, grown, and evolved into different terms like lolcats, lolrus, loldog and splintered into varying sub-memes and sub-sub-memes which employ different grammatical patterns, different contexts, and sometimes even merges memes. It has since spread through many forums, and online communities such as somethingawful, ebaumsworld.

The meme continuies to evolve into many completely tangential and unrelated memes: lolbrarians, lolbees, lolpresidents (my favorite being LOLcode). A new LOL- spinoff is created every week. This is happening throughout the internet by people who are having fun, and being creative, by taking a meme (idea) and applying it in new and creative ways.

Ben tells the story in a much better way than the site, or any of us, can. He is a hilarious guy, and a natural with audiences. I’m sure you’ll agree after watching his presentation. He had the Gnomedexers in stitches.

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