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

[Bob Kibbee]

Hmmm..

Could we use the Web to find this out?

Search Alta Vista for "no one knows you're a dog"

click on "NO Title" described as the rec.arts.comics FAQ (one--no. 10-- of
139 hits)

Section C8 appended here:

"C8. Where did the "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" cartoon
appear?

Page 61 of the July 5, 1993 issue of the New Yorker."


                                      Bob

>>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 have it on a transparency and also paper.  The author is "P. 
>Steiner" if that is any help.  Another librarian here says it was the 
>from the NEW YORKER about Fall of 1993.
>
>
>
>     In contrast, I also have a transparency with the caption, "On the 
>Internet, nobody knows you're a saint."  I can't quite tell if it is 
>supposed to be Saint Augustine....or heaven or what. 
>
>
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