The year was 2006. The Internet was just entering puberty and a little website called YouTube.com was celebrating its first birthday. Meanwhile, in the Crichton neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, local residents were confident there was a Leprechaun living in a tree. So sure enough, the local NBC-affiliate news station covered the story, someone uploaded it to YouTube, and the rest, they say*, is Internet Meme History. (*no one says that)