30 years later, people still can't tell if you're a dog on the internet. The New Yorker's 1993 classic is most-shared cartoon in the history of the magazine, and one of the best-known jokes about the internet. It's yours for about $50,000.
I think most of the people complaining don’t seem to realize that this was a one-off in The New Yorker from before most people had the Internet, and not a currently running web series.
I don’t know what to tell you. Even if you’ve never seen the comic, “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is a really well-known phrase.
At 30 years old, it’s older than a lot of folks currently on the Internet.
I’ve never seen the cartoon before or heard that phrase, either, and I’ve been using the internet for over 25 years.
Apparently, this thing is the most iconic according to this one author.
Well I think ‘most iconic’ is typical journalistic hyperbole, but I would call it very well-known overall. Just type the phrase into a search engine.
I think most of the people complaining don’t seem to realize that this was a one-off in The New Yorker from before most people had the Internet, and not a currently running web series.
“On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” is a classic and well-known phrase, and I’ve been using the internet for nearly 20 years.
Never knew it came from a cartoon, though.