Internet Hilarity Invades MIT

Have you ever wanted to talk to Tron Guy? What about mingling with the twisted minds behind Homestar Runner? Do you love LOLCATS or Job-Jab? Then the ROFLCON is for you.

April 25 and 26 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, internet memes that have kept us laughing for years will gather with "brainy academics" for this huge, and no doubt hilarious, event.

Parties, music, live performances by memes, it will all be there.

The ROFLCon website calls it "a group dissection of internet culture. What makes it work, why it works, how it works."

For those two days MIT will be filled to the brim with some of the most ridiculous, yet brilliant, minds the world has ever seen.

The website claims that it "might be the most important gathering since the fall of the tower of Babel."

PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING

Internet Celebs

1) Jay Maynard, Tron Guy 2) Kyle Macdonald, Paperclip to House Guy 3) Martin Grondin, LOLCat Bible 4) Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics 5) The Brothers Chaps, Homestar Runner 6) Ryan and Arija, LOLSecretz 7) Stephen Granades, LOLTrek 8 ) Leslie Hall, Gem Sweater 9) Dino Ignacio, Bert Is Evil 10) David Lloyd, OCRemix 11) Alexis Ohanian, LOLDeconstructed/Reddit 12) Randall Munroe, Xkcd 13) Group X 14) Adam Lindsay, LOLCode 17) Drew Curtis, Fark.com 18) Rob, Kris, Matt, and Dave, Cyanide and Happiness/Explosm.net 19) Rooster Teeth, Red versus Blue 20) Matt Harding, Where the Hell is Matt? 21) moot, 4chan 22) Ian Spector, Chuck Norris Facts 23) Rocketboom 24) Joe Mathlete, Marmaduke Explained 25) Brad Neely, Creased Comics and Super Deluxe 26) "Cheezburger," I Can Haz Cheezburger 27) Chris Hastings, Dr. McNinja 28) Joey Comeau, A Softer World 29) Brian Finklestein, Snakes on a Blog 30) Jeffrey Rowland, Wigu/Overcompensating 31) MC Frontalot 32) Matt Haughey, MetaFilter 33) Neil Cicierega, Lemon Demon 34) Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 35) Joe Peacock, Mentally Incontinent 36) Justine Ezarik, iJustine/300-page iPhone Bill 37) Richard Stevens, Dumbrella/Diesel Sweeties 38) Leeroy Jenkins 39) John Hargrave, Zug.com 40) James Zetlen, Sorry Everybody 41) Andy Ochiltree, JibJab 42) Ji Lee, The Bubble Project 43) Avi Muchnick, Worth1000 44) Denny Blaze, Average Homeboy 45) Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like

Profs

1) Chris Kelty, Rice University 3) J.D. Connor, Harvard University 4) Rich Doyle, Penn State University 5) David Weinberger, Berkman Center 6) Alice Marwick, NYU 7) Lana Swartz, CMS

Awesome Folks/Internet Culture Pundits/Captains of Internet Industry

1) Anil Dash, Six Apart 3) Benjamin Palmer, The Barbarian Group 4) Martin Sargent, Web Drifter, Revision3.com 5) Evan White, PR 6) Joshua Schachter, Memepool/Del.icio.us 7) Jay Parkinson, M.D. 8) Nick Douglas, Gawker Media 9) Scott Beale, Laughing Squid 10) Jason Scott, textfiles.com 11) Kevin Driscoll, CMS