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I just learned that british photographer Harry Pointer made a lot of captioned photographs of cats in various situations in the late 19th century...

look at this:

the lolcat is over a century old

(from granadahvlmes Tumblr, who got it from transtrendad's Tumblr)

Information about the photographer and more images: http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNPointerCats.htm