back to article It's happened, folks: An actual exhibition about cats and the internet

It's been a persistent joke for a while: that the internet is nothing but cat videos and porn. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later but now we have a serious exhibition about cats online. "How Cats Took Over the Internet" opens today at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York and runs through to the end of January …

  1. Admiral Grace Hopper

    Bonsai Kitten

    Is there an exhibit for the bonsai kittens?

    1. Wade Burchette

      Re: Bonsai Kitten

      Or the Russian cat circus?

  2. i steal your leccy

    "is this a saucer of milk i see before me?"

    Why have you illustrated this piece with a picture of Benedict Cumberbatch?

  3. Chris G

    Pussies and Porn

    "It's been a persistent joke for a while: that the internet is nothing but cat videos and porn."

    Kind of go together really!

    1. Khaptain Silver badge

      Re: Pussies and Porn

      Are you confusing felines with xhamsters by any chance ?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Pussies and Porn

      But when people search for 'pussy licking' they're certainly not trying to find images like these:

      http://b5.uk.icdn.ru/t/taiger-10/1/6060611vwX.jpg

      http://pics2.pokazuha.ru/p442/f/v/4344734yvf.jpg

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Where is ceiling cat? Call yourself journalists, shocking...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      1. Haku

        And the first ever cat animation created on a computer?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mm3hXNgA

        From Russia in 1968, printed ASCII images photographed in stop motion to create an animation.

  5. HighHo

    Catscan was one of the earliest sites I remember for this type of thing.

    1. Haku
      Happy

      Sadly the original Catscan site is gone, but: http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/

      Also, http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

  6. John Tserkezis

    I for one welcome our feline overlords. Australian television has well and truly become entirely saturated with fucking cooking shows, and one network has replaced their competing cooking show (because it couldn't compete), with a cat program showcasing cat videos from youtube. True story.

    Which is just as well, because if I hear one more retarded cooking contestant whine their overcooked meat sampling is "devastating" I'm going to puke.

    1. Mark 85
      Coat

      So if the cooking and cat shows were to merge..... No.. I shouldn't go there and suggest maybe a Post-Pub Nosh article?. Sorry.. too late. I went there. I'll get my coat, it's the one with the kitty treats in the pocket.

      1. Kaltern

        Probably exists in Korea. Or China.

        Cat-San Ran into my Pan.

    2. Christian Berger

      Actually cat videos on TV have always been popular.

      For example the most popular programme of German public TV station "Hessischer Rundfunk" is this cat interval signal from the 1970s:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1QEHE5fl3U

      They were stray cats and found a new home through that clip. That spanned a whole new genre of TV shows called "Tiere suchen ein Zuhause" in which stray animals from shelters were shown on TV in the hope of finding new homes.

  7. Zog_but_not_the_first
    1. Pookietoo
      Headmaster

      Re: Cats and Goodwin!

      Godwin.

  8. Dr_N

    Early Internet cats...

    The Nokia ad with the ceiling fan and the Ford Sport Ka one too.

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