Curated by the Department of Internet History, 2226 Artifact 1: Doge (Artifact Courtesy of Atsuko Sato) A photograph of a domesticated Shibu Inu canine accompanied by fragmented captions appears repeatedly in early internet records, making it one of the earliest and most influential internet memes of this era. Captions such as “wow” and “much amaze” lack conventional structure and were long believed to signal declining literacy. Historians now argue this marked the beginning