The legend of Keyboard Cat: How a man and his cat(s) won the internet lottery

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In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything.

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Charlie Schmidt is lucky, and he knows it.

What else could explain it? Millions of people have cats. Millions more have cameras. And yet in one remarkable, silly, charming, captivating moment those two things came together in a way that would change the world wide web forever. 

“I expected somehow that somebody like you would call me,” the creator of the iconic Keyboard Cat muses in a conversation had over a decade since his viral hit. "What do you want to know?" Read more...

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