During his talk at Gnomedex in Seattle on Friday, I Can Has Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh discussed the history of the site, and some of the lessons learned as it has become one of the largest communities online.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News)SEATTLE--How does one build an empire on pictures of cats with silly, misspelled captions?
As most fans of the Internet now know, I Can Has Cheezburger has become one of the most popular sites online. Its daily collection of LOLCats is the source of endless humor, and you can be pretty sure that someone in your office is reading the site and chuckling to themselves right now.
But how did it happen?
At the Gnomedex conference here Friday, I Can Has Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh talked about the genesis of the site, and some of the milestones it has gone through as it has become not only a household name but the vanguard--if not the originator--of one of the most popular memes ever to hit cyberspace.
To Huh, the "Lolean Timescale" started several years ago, back when LOLCats were a much edgier phenomenon. Back then, a LOLCat was as likely to have a snarky, sexual theme as not. You may remember the famous, "Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" LOLCat that began to make its way across the Internet a couple of years ago.
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