Comments on: Behind the LOLcat: Schrodinger’s LOLcat

By: Ha Ha! Old Pictures on the Internet!

Ha Ha! Old Pictures on the Internet! — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:58:03 +0000

[...] one of the creators of Schrodinger’s LOLcat, and a good netizen, I feel it my duty to try and bring some meme magic to this aging sepia-tone [...]

By: D. L. Yonge-Mallo

D. L. Yonge-Mallo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:01:33 +0000

I had essentially the same idea.

Incidentally, my cat’s name is Heisenberg, which makes his participation in the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment more (in)appropriate somehow.

http://stargrads.net/blogs/davinci/2009/08/schrodingers-lolcat/

By: Shane Hall

Shane Hall — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:51:37 +0000

Delightful concept. I love RAW, and I love LOLcats. I can haz multiplex naturez of causalities? Heh.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:27:46 +0000

Dan is HAWT….

By: Christel

Christel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:43:56 +0000

Here is another Shrodinger lolcat that might be a good addition to this page:

http://lolcatgenerator.com/lolcat/379/

By: LOLcats: I can haz control of the Internet meme space? — Our Latest Discovery

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:31:39 +0000

[...] tells the story of how the Schrodinger’s LOLcat was created, if you’re intrigued. Credit goes there for the image, [...]

By: Cris Pearson

Cris Pearson — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:01:23 +0000

if you do tshirts, i totally want one! this is one of my fave LOLCATS.. and the fact you used skitch makes me like it even more

By: Off Colfax

Off Colfax — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:40:43 +0000

Dude. Just so you know, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? picked this one up as well. And now that I know who is responsible for this, you owe my cat an apology. She just about has the Mountain Dew out of her fur by now.

By: Ana Aesthetic

Ana Aesthetic — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:04:12 +0000

I just found you through twitter and you made me spew from my nose!

By: Kevin Steele

Kevin Steele — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:33:37 +0000

As for ideas floating in the ether… please indulge me.

Back in 1993 I programmed the very first Virtual Bubble Wrap, which was an easter egg in a promotion for our company Mackerel, designed in Supercard.

VBW was based on one of the same kind of flashes as Schrodinger’s LOLcat that seems so obvious after the fact, in this case it was one of my partners, Dave Groff, who had the flash. The moment Dave mentioned the idea I realized how easy it would be to build and make cool.

In 1995 Joey Devilla was working at Mackerel. He did a great time rebuilding VBW in Director, and then had it ready to be one of the very first games ready the day Macromedia released Shockwave. It was really quite popular.

The web was comparatively tiny back then. Even as Mackerel’s web presence faded over the years after ceasing operations ten years ago, there were waves after waves of newcomers arriving on the shores of the interent each year.

Again and again we would encounter independent instances of Virtual Bubblewrap over the years, including “The Original Virtual Bubble Wrap” which has been online since 1996. I get some amusement watching that site do its best to maintain its earlyish web pedigree in the face of subsequent instances of VBW as it eventually became a cliché.

If for some reason the LOLcat meme just continues to grow and mutate in a future where nothing goes away, there will be future Shrödinger’s LOLcats that come from people who have never seen yours.