On The Internet No One Knows You're The Guy Who Said Nobody Knows You're A Dog
from the cartoon-celebrities dept
An amusing article about the guy who first created the cartoon and caption for the New Yorker with the famous line: "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog". Apparently, very few people realize that this is where the quote came from, and even fewer know who the creator was. Of course, financially, it hasn't hurt him - as he receives commissions whenever the cartoon is reprinted. Sometimes, though, those commissions are a little sad. The cartoon was used by Bill Gates in his book for the steep fee of $200.
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those stupid smilies
(and how) that came into being - was it an accident?
It was Scott Fahlman at CMU, and I remember it was sometime around '85...that is, you didn't see them before mid '85 and then suddenly they were everywhere!
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