I Can Has Cheezburger turned LOLcats into a business, and by 2010 the Cheezburger Network ran dozens of sites, including FAIL Blog and Memebase, publishing user-submitted image macros to millions of visitors a day.
- Domain in 2010
- icanhascheezburger.com
- Launched
- January 2007
- Founders
- Eric Nakagawa, Kari Unebasami
- Owner in 2010
- Cheezburger, Inc. (Ben Huh)
- Status today
- Still active
What people used it for
- Captioned cat photos
- FAIL Blog and other meme sites
- Submitting your own macros
Interface characteristics
- Impact-font captions on photos
- Blog stream with vote buttons
Notable features
- LOLcat builder
- Acquired Know Your Meme in 2011
What happened later
The Cheezburger sites still run under new ownership after a 2016 sale.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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