On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog is a single-panel cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner and published in the July 5, 1993 issue of the American magazine The New Yorker. It shows a large dog seated on a chair at a desk with a paw on a computer keyboard, speaking the caption's words to a smaller dog sitting on the floor nearby. The caption passed into wider use as an adage about the anonymity of internet communication. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage and Internet meme about Internet anonymity that began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner and published in the July 5, 1993, issue of the American magazine The New Yorker.
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dog" is an adage and Internet meme about Internet anonymity that began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner and published in the July 5, 1993, issue of the American magazine The New Yorker.
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