THE BEEFCAKE FELINE COMMONALITY

Millennials and those younger than Millennials probably have no concept whatsoever of the difficulty in researching esoteric topics (and even non-esoteric ones) prior to the age of the internet. If you wanted to do a school term paper in 1970 about, say, Komodo dragons, you could probably find a few brief encyclopedia articles and maybe a couple of paragraphs in a reptile book. For a thorough, in-depth treatment of the topic, or for any information at all on a more exotic item, you were probably screwed, unless you somehow could locate the name of a helpful tome or article (which would be a very tedious and time-consuming task) and hope that your local library could order the reference materials so that they would arrive in time for you to use them for your project--and that the materials would actually be relevant once they showed up. As an example, if you wanted to learn about our infamous decapitated chicken, Headless Mike, in 1970, you might well never dig up anything about him unless you happened to browse through the 1945 print edition (there was, of course, no online edition) of Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and found a citation to the Life magazine article on that topic.

The internet, of course, has changed all of that. There is a glut of info on virtually everything, and it is easily searchable. Case in point: In the old days, if you wanted to assemble a huge collage of photos of studly guys posing with cats, it would have been almost impossible to do so. Today, however, all you have to do is go directly to the site devoted to that topic, and all of your hunks with felines fantasies will be satiated. 

Of course, the downside of the internet is that any idiot can post any drivel he wants, and you have to be discriminating enough to sort the gold from the dross.

One thing you will not find on the internet is how I happened to be looking at photos of sexy guys holding cats. Oh, what the heck, you can find out after all. Quite simply, I stumbled across the site when I was surfing some of the stories featured on the delightful blog "did you know?".