Metafilter turns a decade old
How to scan a cat and other subjects
On July 14th, 1999, a programmer named Matthew Haughey made the first post on a blog he’d set up for himself and a few friends in an attempt to collect interesting links. It was a link to a site called ‘Cat-scan.com’; this being the Internet, of course, it had little to do with medical imaging.
“Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I’ve seen in some time,†wrote Haughey. “I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.â€Â
This was how MetaFilter started, 10 years ago: with wry humour and some cat photos. Next week, thousands of people will be toasting its anniversary – hundreds of them at parties in rented-out pubs in cities from Toronto to Tokyo.
