There’s a cartoon you’ve probably seen before: two dogs are sitting at a computer, with one telling the other that “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”.
What you may not realise (at least, I didn’t) is that the cartoon was drawn all the way back in 1993 – utterly prehistoric in internet terms. Hardly anyone was online twenty years ago, and yet there was already a worry that there was something unreal or inauthentic about online communication: that could be anyone behind ...
