In 2013 the internet phenomenon called the Doge meme, based on a Japanese Shiba Inu breed dog, where the dog would be displayed with a comic sans text explaining what the dog was thinking. A programmer called Billy Markus thought of the idea of making a kind of cryptocurrency out of this meme. The main idea and focus of the coin was to attract investors attention from bitcoin to the meme coin instead. Adobe´s Jackson Palmer created the website dogecoin.com and when Markus happened to stumble upon the site they both worked together to start the cryptocurrency that we now know as the doge coin. Now there are many more meme coins such as Shiba Inu, Dogelon Mars and Akita Inu.