• BigFig
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    361 year ago

    It’s funny how many “most iconic” things I’ve never heard of until someone labels it as “most iconic”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      161 year ago

      I don’t know what to tell you. Even if you’ve never seen the comic, “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is a really well-known phrase.

      • @AbidanYre
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        151 year ago

        At 30 years old, it’s older than a lot of folks currently on the Internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I’ve never seen the cartoon before or heard that phrase, either, and I’ve been using the internet for over 25 years.

        Apparently, this thing is the most iconic according to this one author.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          81 year ago

          Well I think ‘most iconic’ is typical journalistic hyperbole, but I would call it very well-known overall. Just type the phrase into a search engine.

          • @AbidanYre
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            51 year ago

            I think most of the people complaining don’t seem to realize that this was a one-off in The New Yorker from before most people had the Internet, and not a currently running web series.

        • PugJesus
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          41 year ago

          “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” is a classic and well-known phrase, and I’ve been using the internet for nearly 20 years.

          Never knew it came from a cartoon, though.

  • NessD
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    291 year ago

    Never heard of it.

    • @dhork
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      101 year ago

      I didn’t think so, either, until I clicked on it and saw the cartoon, and immediately recognized it. I never knew it had a name, though.

      • snooggums
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        71 year ago

        I knew the saying, didn’t know it came from a comic or that it was called Cyberdog.

      • _justforfun_
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        21 year ago

        I’m still going with never heard of it. Apparently I don’t run in most iconic circles.

  • mommykink
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    251 year ago

    the internet’s most iconic cartoon

    Source needed

  • @zepheriths
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    191 year ago

    No xkcd is significantly more iconic than what ever this thefarside clone is

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      The line is iconic, but I’ve literally never seen the comic from the article.

      Xkcd might be more iconic as a whole, but I can’t think of a single comic that approaches “on the internet no one knows your a dog” meme, but it’s clearly transcended its origin.

    • mommykink
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      51 year ago

      Ctrl+alt+del is more iconic than whatever this is

      Cyanide & Happiness is more iconic than whatever this is

      Fucking PizzaCakeComic is more iconic than whatever this is