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‘On the Internet, Nobody Knows Your a Dog:’ The Web’s Most Iconic Cartoon Is for Sale.

I mean it’s written out for them, right there, in the caption of the cartoon they publish.

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Jimmers
Jimmers
2 years ago

I’ve never before seen the Web’s most iconic cartoon. Some icon.

philip
philip
2 years ago

Yes we do Carrie

Tractor Gent
Tractor Gent
2 years ago

Jimmers: it is old. I first saw it in the 90s. I’m not sure whether it was before or after the horde of AOL newbies came online.

Theophrastus (2066)
Theophrastus (2066)
2 years ago

And what’s the difference between a fox and a dog?
About 8 pints…

Anon
Anon
2 years ago

If anyone really can’t be bothered to click on the article… the cartoon dates to 1993. I would rate it as pretty well known, it’s definitely been widely shared, but not everyone inhabits the same online spaces so I don’t think you’d need to have been hiding under a rock not to have seen it. Particularly anyone on here who’s under the age of … 40? 50? It was internet-famous in the 90s which means it’s going to predate the young’uns.

PJF
PJF
2 years ago

Whats you’re problem?
(other than it’s been corrected)

Stonyground
Stonyground
2 years ago

It has occured to me that there might be a market for a homophone dictionary. It only contains those words that have soundalike words with different meanings and spellings. Each word is then grouped together with its alternative words along with their definitions. We could send a link to its page on Amazon to any offenders such as the one above.

philip
philip
2 years ago

Their loadsa peeps on ere that cant andle apostrophe’s an difference tween there and they’r, innit. Theve got smartfones.
onest, dahling, i’m on the train, not inth’pub.

Bloke in the Fourth Reich
Bloke in the Fourth Reich
2 years ago

You know what it is as a professional writer.

Timelines, always “challenging”, are just completely fucking impossible nowadays.

All you can do is bash out something that is barely fit for purpose while advising your customers they are doing themselves no favours. And they still have the gall to complain.

BiFR in Lisbon.

Andyf
Andyf
2 years ago

I’ve never seen that cartoon, and to add context I went on a New York internet users pub craw in 1994 (small enough to know most people’s name). So yes, it certainly wasn’t iconic at the time.

PJF
PJF
2 years ago

Still, it could be worse:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pearl-Harbor-Date-Infamy-December/dp/B0CHG8SZSC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FBQLFG28DD3E&keywords=pearl+harbor+clark&qid=1694816033&sprefix=pearl+harbor+clark%2Caps%2C521&sr=8-1

A fine example of life imitating art (Senator Blutarsky) in a new category of pulp non-fiction.

(hat tip: Instapundit)

Chester Draws
Chester Draws
2 years ago

So yes, it certainly wasn’t iconic at the time.

The Mona Lisa wasn’t iconic at the time.

You going to argue that it isn’t iconic now?

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