On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog
Meaning: Online anonymity removes social accountability, allowing anyone to misrepresent themselves without consequence.
Origin: The caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner in The New Yorker (July 5, 1993), in which a dog seated at a computer explains the point to another dog. It became the best-known image of online anonymity and one of the magazine's most reproduced cartoons.
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