An orange tabby wearing a blue shirt, paws positioned over an electronic keyboard, apparently performing a cheerful tune—this simple image became one of the internet's most recognisable memes. What makes the story stranger is that the footage was filmed in 1984, decades before YouTube existed, and sat forgotten in someone's archives until the world was finally ready for it. Keyboard Cat demonstrates how the right content at the right moment can achieve a kind of immortality, becoming shorthand for something everyone understands...