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elaborates: "You can be whoever you want to be. You can completely redefine yourself if you want. You don't have to worry about the slots other people put you in as much. They don't look at your body and make assumptions. They don't hear your accent and make assumptions. All they see are your words."
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since 1979, has said that although he did have an online account in 1993, he had felt no particular interest in the Internet then. He drew the cartoon only in the manner of a "make-up-a-caption" item, to which he recalled attaching no "profound" meaning, seeing that it had received little attention
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will be liberatory because gender, race, age, looks, or even 'dogness' are potentially absent or alternatively fabricated or exaggerated with unchecked creative license for a multitude of purposes both legal and illegal", an understanding that echoed statements made in 1996 by
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of the computer, speaking to a smaller dog sitting on the floor nearby. Steiner had earned between $ 200,000 and $ 250,000 by 2013 from its reprinting, by which time it had become the cartoon most reproduced from
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by Alan David Perkins. The play revolves around six individuals, unable to communicate effectively with people in their lives, who nonetheless find the courage to socialize anonymously on the Internet.
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discusses this phenomenon, suggesting the ability to represent one's self behind the mask of a computer screen may be part of the compulsion to go online. The phrase may be taken "to mean that
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on February 23, 2015, features a similar pair of dogs watching their owner sitting at a computer, with one asking the other, "Remember when, on the Internet, nobody knew who you were?"
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Once the exclusive domain of government engineers and academics, the Internet was by then becoming a subject of discussion in such general interest magazines as
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in, for example, a university may require identity confirmation, it holds such information privately, without embedding it in external Internet transactions.
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cartoon editor, "The cartoon resonated with our wariness about the facile façade that could be thrown up by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of
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that implies the ability to send and receive messages—or to create and maintain a website—behind a mask of anonymity.
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magazine article in 1993 that "the true sign that popular interest has reached critical mass came this summer when
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The cartoon symbolizes the liberation of one's Internet presence from popular prejudices. Sociologist
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It has become a frequently used refrain in discussions about the Internet and as such has become an
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on July 5, 1993. The words are those of a large dog sitting on a chair at a desk, with a paw on the
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The cartoon has been printed on mugs and T-shirts, and even inspired a 1995 play.
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Elmer-DeWitt, Philip; Jackson, David S. & King, Wendy (December 6, 1993).
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for $ 175,000, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a comic.
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The New Yorker Magazine; Malcolm Gladwell; et al. (October 30, 2012).
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initially. He later stated that he felt as if he had created the "
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Castro-Leon, Enrique; Harmon, Robert (December 22, 2016).
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require no user to confirm their own identity. Although a
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printed a cartoon showing two computer-savvy canines".
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On October 6, 2023, the original artwork was sold at a
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Peter Steiner
The New Yorker
adage
Internet meme
Internet anonymity
cartoon
Peter Steiner
The New Yorker
keyboard
auction
Peter Steiner
cartoonist
smiley face
Heritage Auctions
Lotus Software
Mitch Kapor
Time
Bob Mankoff
html
Sherry Turkle
Internet privacy
Lawrence Lessig
Internet protocols
local access point
compulsive or troublesome Internet use
cyberspace
John Gilmore
Usenet
cross-dressing

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