Re: The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:43:44 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

But the greatest of all time is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage and Internet
meme about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon
drawn by Peter Steiner, published in The New Yorker on July 5, 1993


1993 ???  The "pilgrims" had not arrived, but there were BBSs, Delphi
(online service) , Usenet, etc then.  Most of the public were clueless
then about these services.