Taking Credit For The Limecat

I DID THIS:

http://www.colddeadfish.net/images/limecat.jpg

That link is the first one that comes up if you do a Google Image search using the word "limecat."

If I could get my copy of Hello to work, I would put the picture up and soon I will, because I am responsible for the popularity of Limecat.

A few months ago, I was trying to think of something to send to Sweetie in an email that would make her laugh. She likes cats, so I did a Google image search for pictures of cats that might make her laugh. I forget what I typed in. Something like 'weird cats.' On the third or fourth page, I saw the picture that would come to be known as Limecat.

It was NOT called Limecat at the time and I don't know anything else about it other than that it was on the Internet. I copied the link and emailed it to Sweetie and told her to look at it. She emailed back that she didn't like it and it frightened her. I then emailed and said that I did like it and that I was going to call it "Limecat." After a few exchanges like that (and me continuing to email the picture to her) I set it as my background desktop. That didn't content me. I wanted to start a trend.

So I emailed the link to everyone I could think of; I went through my deleted and sent emails and cut and pasted the addresses and sent the link to everyone in there. This included total strangers, since one email was from a friend of mine that had been copied into people he knew but I didn't. In my email, I asked them to email it on and pass it around, like a chain letter but without any threats. (My friend thought I was nuts for doing this.)

That was the last I thought of it for a while, until recently and especially today when for some reason it popped into my head. So I did a search for "Limecat" and came up with 156 image sites for the word "limecat." Wikipedia has an entry for it, for Pete's sake. And it links to things like a site that says Limecat is a god. (I don't like that.)

This link: http://web.archive.org/web/20040408003243/etudiant.epitech.net/~bret_a/limecatmini/

Is funny.

This link: http://limecat.net/

I think is one that sprung up after I first named the cat.

But if whoever's picture it was didn't want me to link to it, why use my name for it? So I'd like to know, when was Limecat created? Whose cat is it, really? I don't want credit because I didn't do anything besides email someone else's thing, but I would like to know because there's websites proclaiming it as their own, and I don't think it is because it wasn't called Limecat when I found it.

So if you're out there, let me know.