Long before modern day cat memes in the early 20th century it was cat postcards. Postcards in the 19th and 20th centuries were the social media of the time, they were faster and cheaper than letters and they didn't require a lot of thought or time to compose. They also shared another link to current social media, people thought postcards were rotting the minds of the masses, "a disease in the public bloodstream", a "fresh terror", a "Frankenstein's monster" not to mention complaints about how they affected people's reading and writing skills. Seems like a perfect example of the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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