In sorting through my papers, I come across URLs for websites that I jotted down or cut out of the newspaper years ago. As fast as the Internet has evolved over the years, it makes me wonder how many of these sites still exist.

Right now, I'm looking at an article dated Tuesday November 1996 about websites related to cats in a newspaper called Computerlink.

I googled the eleven URLS provided, and here are the ones that still exist:

Why Cats Paint Home Page I've known about the painting cats movement for a number of years, but have yet to decide if it's tongue in cheek or maybe done with laser pointers.

Does Your Cat Own You? This is an old joke that has been circulated via email for many years. The URL in the article doesn't work, but I've provided a link to a similar site so you can see it.

Bad Kitty/Bad Human List This is another long list of cat traits written in a light-hearted manner that someone has compiled. It's so long as to be over-cute and therefore mind numbing to the point of being irritating.

Problem Behavior in Cats This is a thread - questions and answers on a website called "Pure Parenting" apparently the contributions are from the most anal people ever. Very nauseating.

The Main Coon Breeders and Fanciers Association The old URL is gone, but they have a new URL. I used to think that Maine Coon cats came only with tabby markings, but they are all colors.

Here are a couple of them who lived in my rental cabin in 2006. This is my kitchen when they were visiting and heard a mouse.



This is what my cat Buddy would look like if he was a Maine Coon cat, not a lot different, but Buddy doesn't have those tufts on his ears:







I don't know how the person who wrote this article back in 1996 chose the sites that were listed, and maybe back then there weren't so many. Today, if you want to know anything at all about cats, just type some random thought into your search engine and meander along wherever the Info Highway takes you.