on the internet nobody knows you're a dog...

[Albert Lunde]

>im giving a talk this weekend and i wonder if anyone
>our there remembers that famous cartoon (i think it was
>maybe in the _new yorker_?) with the dog sitting in front of
>a computer terminal and the caption being "on the internet
>nobody knows you're a dog"???
>
>i want to make an overhead of it.. i *used* to have it
>on paper but have lost it... does anyone out there know
>where i might be able to find it?? -- what issue, or ???

It was the New Yorker. A web search found someone's parody + a gif of the
original online at:

http://anonymizer.cs.cmu.edu:8080/cartoon.html

Another reference (in a TIME article) suggests the original was ca. the
summer of 1993.

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde at nwu.edu