I Can Has Cheezburger is now the name of a weblog featuring Lolcatz, created by Eric Nakagawa and his friend.
Bad grammar is a sure sign of a Lolcatz meme.
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Doge memes have semi-coherent messages scribbled on them with the much-hated Comic Sans font.
Jay Maynard made this homemade Tron costume and wore it to the Penguicon conference in 2003.
Grass Mud Horse is a fictional animal that was created to protest Chinese censorship.
Someone captured a photo of President Obama making this face, and it soon became an internet meme.
The “overly attached girlfriend” meme surfaced after this girl’s 2012 YouTube video of her awkwardly singing Justin Bieber’s “Girlfriend.”
Star Wars Kid was one of the first internet memes that went viral in 2002.
This photo from a cruise excursion was taken five years before it went viral on the internet and became a meme.
A Reuters photo of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checking her PDA was turned into a meme of her sending snarky remarks to celebrities and political figures.
Lyndsey Gilpin is a former Staff Writer for TechRepublic, covering sustainability and entrepreneurship. She's co-author of the book Follow the Geeks.