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 initially. Peter Steiner, a cartoonist and contributor to The New Yorker since 1979, has said that although he did have an online account in 1993, he had felt no particular interest in the Internet then. 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 The New Yorker. The words are those of a large dog sitting on a chair at a desk, with his paw on the keyboard of the computer before him, speaking to a smaller dog sitting on the floor beside him.

' 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 by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993. Adage and meme about Internet anonymity Peter Steiner's cartoon, as published in The New Yorker

Meme why did nobody tell me