Can i haz history

So in March, the site hired full-time moderators to do nothing but review LOLCat submissions and choose which ones become the six or eight that are put on the site each day. The site also inaugurated a system for users to register with the site so they could take advantage of a series of account management tools.

And in March, Huh and his team decided to launch new blogs, hoping "lightning would strike twice. As a result, I Can Has Cheezburger now has six sister sites. Now, the main site is approaching million page views a month and Huh said he thinks it will top a billion page views in It will come out in October. Which all raises one question. These days, I think we are less and less surprised by what becomes popular online. But can you imagine two years ago hearing that someone would have a blog with pictures of cats accompanied with silly, badly spelled phrases, that could do a billion page views in a year?

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Daniel Terdiman. But how did it happen? On January 11, , though, that all changed. It all started with one funny LOLCat. Now I Can Has Cheezburger has spawned six new blogs and is getting close to million page views per month. A screen shot of the registration of icanhascheezburger. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

I see some domain names have "icanhaz" in them. I think there must be some story behind it. Do you guys know? It's part of the Lolcats meme, originally given as "I can has cheezburger". I'm sure there is a good history, as it were, of the lolcats thing.

As to the strange grammar, that's the point, that kittens aren't particularly educated yet in English yet? It's one of a long line of "memes" emanating from 4chan Along with lolcat, rickroll, etc. Basically it's an internet in-joke which became adopted by people who were not "in" with the joke.

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Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. It all started with Diane Sawyer. The newscaster sat down with the late pop star at her Atlanta home way back in for a tell-all interview tied to her upcoming album Just Whitney. Much of the interview focused on her tragic addictions, to which Houston raised the question about a headline that claimed Whitney had spent an exorbitant amount of money on drugs. To which Whitney gave an answer that would become the stuff of legends.

I wanna see the receipts. And thus, out of true tragedy, a meme was born. Initially it was the clip that viral, with viewers marveling at her ability to be so sassy to someone as intimidating as Diane Sawyer. Then, thanks to the marvels of the Internet, the phrase grew and transformed into the meme behemoth it is today.