A Convention For Lulz
Finally all those Internet memes will be honored with a convention. It’s the ROFLCon. We really needed this convention badly right? LOLCats just doesn’t get enough notice on the Internet. The Bosotn Herald says this lulz con is being held by MIT.
The best - and, well, the worst - of Internet culture will crawl out of computer screens across the globe and descend on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday and Saturday for the first-ever ROFLCon, a joint venture of the Harvard and MIT Free Culture programs that will feature more than 60 Internet celebrities, guest speakers and college professors.
“We’re getting the Internet to appear in the real world,” said ROFLCon organizer and Harvard senior Tim Hwang.
“And it’s terrifying,” laughed fellow coordinator and Crimson undergrad Carrie Anderson.
If you don’t know that ROFL stands for “Rolling on the Floor Laughing,” then chances are you’ve never marveled at the luminescent costume detail of Tron Guy, giggled to grammatically depraved kitty captions on the Web site “I Can Has Cheezeburger” or hopped aboard the meteoric rise of the “Stuff White People Like” blog. That site garnered 24 million hits over a few months and landed creator Christian Lander a book deal with Random House Publishing.
Laughing Squid says the Tron guy is going. Wired calls the convention a weekend of nerddom. The full list of guest stars is here.
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