Everybody talks about Caturday, but how many of you know its origins? My human did a little bit of digging, and found out these facts. I think you will be surprised by some of them!
- Caturday originated on the website 4Chan. My human was surprised by this because she thought 4Chan was some sort of political site. But it started off as a place to share images, including cat images on Saturdays (Caturday). Some people mistakenly believe Caturday started on MySpace, but that is wrong.
- Caturday has been around since 2005, and may possibly predate lolcats! Lolcats (funny cat meme photos with bold text, joke sayings) originated sometime between 2005 and 2006. Caturday has been around since 2005. For the record, the Cheezburger site (which exploded the lolcat memes) began in 2007.
- There is a caturday.com website. The only thing is there is really nothing there there except one post. It was originally registered on April 30, 2005. (Lolcats.com wasn’t registered until June 14, 2006.) There is also a Caturday blog on Livejournal, which hasn’t been updated in many years.
- Blogging cats predate Caturday. Sparkle started this blog in early 2003. Max the Psychokitty began his blog the same year, and several other blogging cats weren’t far behind. So this puts the earliest blogging cats at least a couple of years prior to Caturday.
- If you are a cat, every day is Caturday. But you probably already knew that one.
Did you know any of these facts, or were you as surprised as my human? Let me know in the comments!
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I’m educated Summer. I knew none of these facts. I started with a laptop later than most
LadyMew did not know these factss Summer! Shee started to blog as Mingflower inn August 2005 on Yahoo 360….a furry long time ago!
Grate factss to know an yore rite! Efurry day iss Caturday fore us catss!!
***purrss*** BellaDharma an ((huggiess)) LadyMew
Interesting!! Learned something new!
Did you catch that big rat in the pics?
No, I didn’t know those things about Caturday.
Thank you for blogging about all those interesting facts, Summer! Of course every day is Caturday for us kitties!
We did not know that!
Thanks for doing the research and letting us know 🙂
Thanks Summer Samba….My girls Coco and Heidi agree!
We love Caturday, Summer. And yes, everyday is Caturday at our house! 🙂
I knew none of these facts about Caturday. It was very interesting!
All news to us. But also interesting to learn how early Max and Sparkle began blogging !
I had no idea! Thanks for the info!
That is really interesting! Thanks for this, Summer!
Purrs,
Tama and Genji
You are right, Summer…every day is Caturday to a cat!
Thank you for your explanation ! We’ve been using the word “Caturrday” since we met English-speaking bloggers, but we didn’t know the origins. Purrs
Excellent post!
Angel Prancer Pie and I always celebrated Caturdays. We had a song we would sing called, Caturday In The Park.
Hee-hee!
I thought it was a lot earlier…all of the examples. IT seems as though it was, but not. I will have togo back and see whenAdmiral started her blog. It’s been a long time I think.
I did not know any of that. I thought Athena came up with it for art day. 🙂
Gosh! I started blogging for work in 1999 on Blogger, it was purchased by Google in 2003 and more personal blogs began to appear in the Blogger feeds, and I discovered cat blogs! I was a lurker in the Cat Blog world (yes, I read Summer’s blog) until 2009. Caturday was in regular use by then. Thanks for giving us the history of Caturday! It is great to step into the “way-back” machine and walk through memories.
Have a Happy Day!
Almost too many facts for me. I wonder if that word will
eventually show up in the dictionary. I just checked the
on-line dictionary and it did not show…yet. I did not check
the slang dictionary. But common usage works.
We did our first blog post in 2008 but we were reading blogs before that. We knew Caturday was around for a while.
The Florida Furkids
That was very interesting sweet Summer, good digging to find that out!
I did not know that!
The only thing that surprises me is that it hasn’t been around longer. I started blogging in July 2006 but snooped around the blogs before that, and it was well used back then so it seemed to have been around for some time.