{"id":1445,"date":"2013-03-17T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neulakko.net\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2013-03-17T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:04:59","slug":"earliest-lolcat-known-to-man-jarisyttava-tieteellinen-havainto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Earliest LOLCAT Known to Man \/ J\u00e4risytt\u00e4v\u00e4 tieteellinen havainto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neulakko.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130317-155108.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20130317-155108.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neulakko.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130317-155108.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was recently reading an article on a relevant topic, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/247106\/why_does_the_internet_love_cats_.html\">Why Does the Internet Love Cats<\/a>?. The article&#8217;s LOLcat timeline made me interested in the history of LOLcats &#8211; by definition &#8221;<em>cute cat pictures with witty captions<\/em>&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/lolcats\">Know your meme <\/a>dates the earliest known LOLcat to the 1870s, when photographer Harry Pointer photographed <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/photos\/486156-lolcats\">cats posed in different situations, adding humorous text.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But you know, I think the LOLcat thing can be traced back much further in time. Already in the middle ages, people understood the delight of combining cats and bad spelling.<\/p>\n<p>The medieval LOLcat is a pewter badge, picturing a cat with a mouse, standing on a scroll with the caption: VISI MUS (here is the mouse), which, true to LOLcat tradition is a misspelled version of the french &#8217;voici mus&#8217;. Other versions exclaim the same in medieval lolspeak as VISI MU, VISIS MIN and voisiu.ipab. I&#8217;m sure the medieval peeps were like LOL upon seeing that.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above shows the medieval LOLcat as a replica by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billyandcharlie.com\/\">Billy and Charlie<\/a>. The original badges belong to the Medieval collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salisburymuseum.org.uk\/collections\/medieval-salisbury\">Salisbury Museum<\/a> and are described in detail in Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue: Part 2, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges by Brian Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>The cat badges are dated to the 15th century.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been popular in their time, since they are not exclusive to Salisbury. The same type of badges have also been excavated from Canterbury and London.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, the first ever lulz.<\/p>\n<p>ps. Many thanks to the Neulakkko facebook page community and especially Anne Marie for assisting me on this important scientific quest. You all rock.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nMaailman eka LOLcat! Suomenkielinen versio tyss\u00e4si siihen, etten tiennyt\/osannut p\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4\u00e4 onko se sittenkin LOLkissa. No, te tied\u00e4tte. Jo keskiajalla osattiin arvostaaa kissan ja v\u00e4\u00e4rin kirjoitetun tekstin riemukasta yhdistelm\u00e4\u00e4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently reading an article on a relevant topic, namely Why Does the Internet Love Cats?. The article&#8217;s LOLcat timeline made me interested in the history of LOLcats &#8211; by definition &#8221;cute cat pictures with witty captions&#8221;. Know your meme dates the earliest known LOLcat to the 1870s, when photographer Harry Pointer photographed cats &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/?p=1445\" class=\"more-link\">Jatka lukemista<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;Earliest LOLCAT Known to Man \/ J\u00e4risytt\u00e4v\u00e4 tieteellinen havainto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[99,137],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkit","category-neulakko","tag-kissa-apu","tag-lol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uIb4-nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neulakko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}