In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. Charlie Schmidt is lucky, and he knows it. What else could ...

It's nearly impossible to go online these days and not come across videos of cats swinging from ceiling fans or being scared by cucumbers. Cats litter Facebook and Snapchat and appear on social media ...

Unless you have been living under a rock lately you have heard of the Keyboard Cat meme that has taken the interwebs and even mainstream media by storm. Heck, the Keyboard Cat even has its own ...

Keyboard Cat has played off some of the internet’s most memorable fails. Now it's time for his owner to play him off—again. Featured Video Bento, the second tabby to go by the YouTube-famous moniker ...

Years after it became an endearing internet sensation, Vice went back and traced the origins of Keyboard Cat and the end result is both fascinating and hysterical. Think of this as the meme version of ...

In 2007, a guy named Charlie Schmidt posted a video on YouTube that he created in 1984 of "Fatso" -- his plump orange tabby cat-- pounding on an electronic keyboard in a blue baby shirt. It sat in ...

Bento, the second Keyboard Cat, passed away at his Spokane, Washington home at age nine earlier this month on March 8. Bento was the successor to the original Internet icon, Fatso, who starred in the ...

Are you up to speed on your Internet memes? Do you love cats? If you answered yes to both those questions then this little do-it-yourself project may be perfect for you. Say hello to the (other) ...

Another week, another internet meme spreading like wildfire. This time it’s the amusing Keyboard Cat providing the soundtrack to the web’s most spectacular FAILS. Watch pretty much any online video ...