"On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" comic sold for $175K, becoming the most expensive single-panel cartoon ever sold at auction - eviltoast
  • zeppo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Wow, that was way ahead of its time for 1993. I remember in 1991 or so my dad showing me how he could connect to a library in Italy over the internet, maybe using Gopher or something. My reaction was ‘why tf would we want to do that? Sounds useless’. Not sure why, because in 1984 we had a Commodore 64 game with a big ad for People Link. I asked my mom if we could sign up because chatting with other people through a computer sounded awesome and she told me no, I’d get molested (also very forward-thinking).