Daftfader was asking me this, and I found some old pics today whilst recovering image data from backups…

in the late 90s I obtained a couple of rubber rats to use as cat toys – but one cat ignored them, the other ran away. But the “scaredy cat” still decided that any telephone wires were snakes and should be dealt with, and managed to regularly disconnect telecoms wires from distribution points. So I started to put the rats on top of telecoms equipment: (that is a 33.6k modem, which in 1994 was the fastest way of getting online)

a ccu for analogue telephone exchange (yes I did install one in the house, as my mum wanted cheap calls to Malaysia (I could program in the shortcode) and my sister could have her own extension as well

I had ext 23 (don’t bother calling that Reading number, it has been ceased for years)

also I often used to try and index and label audio recordings which could be anything from pirate radio airchecks, legal VFR recordings, random audio from the scanner. If they were not also part of synchronised video I would add a wildcat as a logo (as they are known as wild tracks) –

and this is what evolved into the modern logo (I had thought up “miauw naar de maan” as the Dutch KPN used to have a mission statenent “KPN : sluit je aan” (get connected), but in 2003 I did meow at the moon with two cats whilst sending an email on a Psion Revo to someone at Headfuk at some really random time..