> Neko is a cat that runs around on the screen, chasing the mouse cursor.

> It has led many lives through the history of computers.

> Neko on PC-9801 The original software based on this concept was written in the 1980's by Naoshi Watanabe (若田部 直). It was called NEKO.COM and ran on the Japanese computer NEC PC-9801 in the MS-DOS command line.

Also worth mentioning that the Japanese word “neko” literally is their word for “cat”.