Explore The lolcat Phenomenon With Wireless Internet Service

The Internet has developed its own verbal and visual language that can be confusing to many casual Internet users. Many an occasional Internet surfer has come across an image of a cat or kitten in an odd position captioned with a badly ungrammatical ironic or cutesy phrase, but after seeing your fifth or six of these pictures, you can really start to wonder what is going on. If this describes you, you have discovered the Internet phenomenon of LOLcats. You can learn more about LOLcats and other Internet peculiarities quickly and easily with wireless Internet service.

Some sources, perhaps in a tongue-in-cheek manner, trace the history of the LOLcat back to the 19th century, when humorous images of cats were placed on calling cards or postcards. (LOLcat can also be spelled lolcat, but this is really a manner of personal preference.) Modern LOLcats emerged in the mid 2000s, but as with many Internet memes, and like stray cats themselves that may show up at your doorstep hoping for love and attention, their origins are mysterious at best. Their beginnings are generally attributed to the Internet mischief makers at 4chan, who posted Photoshopped cat pictures every Saturday (or Caturday) for a time. It is also generally agreed that the popularity of LOLcats exploded after the widespread distribution of the famous I Can Haz Cheezburger? image, which some day may have the same historical relevance that famous news photographs and National Geographic magazine covers had twenty years ago.

What is known about LOLcats is that they are one of the few Internet tropes that the vast majority of people seem to enjoy. It is understandably difficult to resist a picture of a cat with a humorous captionjust ask Garfield fans. The grammar often used in these images is quite strange. Some argue that the origin of the grammar may be a parody of leetspeak, or Internet jargon popular on unmoderated message boards such as 4chan, or a takeoff on the baby talk people often use when communicating with their cats and other animals. It could also be a combination of the two, of course.

Probably the best place to see LOLcats on the web is the I Can Haz Cheezburger? website. Receiving over a million hits a day by some estimates, and reportedly purchased for over $2 million in 2007, this website demonstrates that LOLcats are not a flash in the pan. Using wireless Internet service, you can see the latest and greatest LOLcats and seamlessly plug yourself into this corner of Internet culture. For example, to celebrate the Easter holiday, the website featured pictures of cats with rabbits (the unofficial symbol of Easter, at least in the United States). You can even use the site's image-generating application to create your own LOLcats (no pictures of your own cats or your friends' cats are needed). With a 4G service, you can participate efficiently in this bona fide Internet craze, and enjoy yourself in the process.