Peter Steiner's 1993 cartoon, as published in The New Yorker "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage and Internet meme about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner, published in The New Yorker on July 5, 1993.[1][2] The words are those of a large dog sitting on a chair at a desk, with a paw on the keyboard of the computer, speaking to a sma