Jul 10
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Oh hai…can i haz last year’s news todayz

” The Wall Street Journal would like to inform you about 4chan.org, a “website” that starts “memes” such as “LOLCats,” which is “humorous images of cats with loud text beneath them in a fake language,” and the “Rick Roll,” an “online bait-and-switch” that sends you to “the music video of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” a hit song from 1988.” The Wall Street Journal, by the way, is a “newspaper.” “

-via gawker

Wow, thanks WSJ for catching me up on all the lastest internet buzz. I can’t wait for next week’s breaking article on a new mysterious content aggregator known as “digg”