Caturday

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Starting on 4Chan’s /b/ in 2005, Caturday at one time was a tradition on 4Chan in which Anonymous would primarily focus on posting lolcat threads on Saturdays. In fact, locats as we know them today grew out of Caturday, before spilling over into other sites, such as Icanhascheezburger.

Excerpt from The Daily Pennsylvanian:

The most primal versions of LOLcats appeared years ago on an Internet image board called 4chan, when Saturdays were designated as “Caturdays” – a special day to post photos of cats.

Excerpt from The Boston Phoenix:

Though the original lolcat meme, called “Caturday,” first started in the 4chan message boards years ago, I Can Has Cheezburger was instrumental in breaking the animal-based image macros and the phonetic “lolspeak” vernacular into the mainstream.

This practice has been expanded, and the idea that “every day is Caturday” has caught on as well.

The observence of Caturday can also be found on Icanhazcheezburger.com.

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November 16th, 2005: Caturdayblog.blogspot.com appears.

Sept 3rd, 2006: Caturday LiveJournal Account is created.

2009 Caturday on Tumblr http://caturday.tumblr.com/

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