It was only when Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska conceived of tha interwebs, also known as the Worm White Webz, as a series of tubes, later realized by Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee, did the idea of cat memes really catch on. It was Tipper Gore’s fervent efforts to install content about prawns instead of rock music that caused the interwebs to rocket into the public consciousness and take cat pictures along with it. Teh intertubez is now estimated to be 30% cat meme and 69% prawn.