# "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"

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**Category:** Corner of joy\
**Created:** [March 26, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://digitallysovereign.org/t/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-a-dog/30 "2026-03-26T00:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobias](https://digitallysovereign.org/user_avatar/digitallysovereign.org/tobias/32/7_2.png) [@tobias](https://digitallysovereign.org/u/tobias)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://digitallysovereign.org/t/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-a-dog/30/1 "2026-03-26T00:55:14Z")

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![f332bb9410e23a1073c4ff2c4495cdb4b8bf97d1](https://digitallysovereign.org/uploads/default/original/1X/ee93253589fb7f04f2bcf68e94245ad114e040e3.jpeg)

This cartoon always felt very personal to me because I was involved in Fidonet from an early age, which had an ascii art dog as the logo. I just did an internet search and see that it warranted a wikimedia commons entry! 🤩

> **[File:FidoNet dog-and-diskette logo.png](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FidoNet_dog-and-diskette_logo.png)**

 ![image](https://digitallysovereign.org/uploads/default/original/1X/52fbb5f20a2c4145ecf5f82e27dc8a778412296c.png)

There’s also a lovely Fidonet wikipedia page where I finally found the real ascii art.

> **[FidoNet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet)**
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> FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network, as well as other files and protocols in some cases.
> The FidoNet system was based on several small interacting programs, only one of which needed to be ported to support other BBS software. FidoNet was one of the few networks that was supported by almost all BBS so...

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                  /|oo \
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                 | (*) | \ ))
    ______|__ U__| / \//
   / FIDO \ _//|| _\ /
  (________) (_/(_|(____/
 (c) John Madill

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