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Cartoon by Peter Steiner, 1993 Published on July 5, 1993, it depicts a dog at a computer telling another dog the punchline. This single-panel cartoon became one of the most reproduced in The New Yorker's history and is widely regarded as the earliest viral "meme" about online anonymity in the early internet era (pre-web boom).