It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Web in general and YouTube in particular have been taken over by cats: small cats, big cats, LOLcats, Grumpy Cats.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, first proposed this information highway 25 years ago, he did not foresee this turn of events. …

“What was one of the things you never thought the internet would be used for, but has actually become one of the main reasons people use the internet?” one Redditor asked. …

But Berners-Lee answered: “Kittens.”