The phrase "Hello, Cap!" can often be seen on the Internet on websites, forums and chat rooms. Cap is short for Captain Obvious.
How Captain Obvious appeared
Cap is a fictional character, a meme that exists in the vastness of the global network. An Internet meme is any picture, phrase or phrase (usually a joke one) that has spread spontaneously on the Internet and became popular.
Captain Obvious was first used on August 3, 1992 at the Comp.sys.mac.hardware group conference in English.
On December 9, 2004, the first issue of the American web comic "Cyanide and Happiness" was published, where Captain Obvious appeared as the hero, a kind of parody of the hero of other Captain America comics. This date is now considered to be Cap's birthday (Cap is short for Captain). In the comics, the Captain acts as an uninvited fighter against evil, ready to selflessly come to the rescue, and in this he has something in common with Internet users who give unsolicited advice and comments.
Captain Obvious is a person who said something so obvious that it sounds like a commonplace. Interestingly, this banality is usually just the most correct answer, but at the same time it is useless and does not reveal the essence of the question. For example, the former American President George W. Bush was named Cap after the question "Why have you still not managed to catch Bin Laden?", He replied: "He is hiding." Another example of a Cap-style phrase: “It's raining. Take an umbrella or you will get wet."
Cap on the Russian-speaking Internet
Originally inhabiting the English-speaking Internet, Captain Evidence appeared in 2008 in the Russian-speaking segment of the global network. In honor of him, a site was even created "So! Ru".
Users sometimes subscribe to Captain Obvious when they point out to the interlocutor some well-known fact or an obvious solution to a problem, which for some reason he himself did not think of. The person writes "Thank you, Cap!" When he was told unnecessary information, advice, common truth. Today the phrase "Thank you, Cap!" has already become winged and is often used by people not only on the network, but also in everyday life.
The Captain Obvious on the Internet has his own signature - "K. O." He also has a distinctive feature - the habit of writing at the end of the sentence "So and so!".
Later, expressions Major Evidence and General Evidence began to appear on the Russian-language Internet, due to the fact that the word "captain" in Russia is associated with a military rank.
