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The New Yorker's most popular comic, featuring two dogs at a computer, has set a record after selling for $175,000 at auction. The comic, published in 1993 by Peter Steiner, predicted the issues of identity and authenticity that would arise on the internet. The comic's success and high auction price highlight the enduring relevance and impact of the internet on society.

The most popular comic in the history of The New Yorker just broke a major record. Since 1925, The New Yorker has published some of the best writing and journalism in America, as well as hilarious comics. In 1993, The New Yorker featured a comic that was highly prescient and quickly found its way into pop culture. Now, the original version of that comic has set an all-time record.

Heritage Auctions, a major auction house, featured the cartoon on their website. First published in July 1993, the comic by Peter Steiner features two dogs at a computer.

Thanks to the internet, we are all coming to resemble Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerberg. But do we like what we see reflected in the computer screen?

It's been widely remarked that The Social Network isn't about social networking: it's about the genesis of any kind of empire. Maybe so, but whatever his creators' intentions, the Mark Zuckerberg confected by Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher and Jesse Eisenberg can't help taking on an emblematic quality. He seems to manifest in extreme form a reshaping of the human personality that his own invention is helping to bring about.

The question that Facebook chooses to put to us is "What's on your mind?" In the film's first scene, Eisenberg's version of Zuckerberg pours out the contents of his own mind to his girlfriend Erica with zero interest in either her preconceptions or response. She tells him he speaks as if "every thought that...