As told by Gretchen Marie at the 1997 Jellicle Ball Meowchat began in late summer of 1995. Der wer alreddy sum messijes in Septemfur so it wuz befur that. According to Anti Kate and Rors, they wuz reading in thuh dog noosgroop and a messij frum Kimmy sed she'd meowed in rpc, but nobuddy ansered her. So Anti Kate found that furst kommunikayshun and Finn and Rors meowed bak. I furst saw a meowchat frum Finn and he wuz talking all funny and nazel. Sumbuddy asked him if he had a cold kuz he sounded all stuffed up. So he answered bak and thuh funny "stuffed up" spelling just cawt on. Theze are da furst memrees of meowchat. Sum kitties use reglar english and sum use a mix of thuh two. It duznt matter anymore, as long as we hav fun talkin.