Its a cactuar.
Arguably pre-internet, first appeared in FF 6, 1994.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Internet's older than you think. Tim Berners Lee, the dude who invented the World Wide Web, opened it up to the public a year earlier.
I said arguably because people will argue over exactly what they mean by 'pre-Internet'.
Is your metric the existence of a network transmission standard used by a few university research centers?
When the WWW standard was invented and opened up?
When over 50% of Americans had a home device capable of connecting to the web?
When over 50% of Americans spent an average of X hours a day using the internet?
... etc.
*Al Gore
And we were using BBS and college FTP sites with Gopher in 92-93 when we got AOL at our house, but friends of mine had Compuserve or Prodigy even before that.
My first thought was the Bangles, but I'm officially old. Do I even want to know what the first row is referring to?
It's about the people who get offended at anything that can look like cultural appropriation.
Hey! You're appropriating my culture of being offended by people who appropriate culture!
Meh, I don't think it's inappropriate. It's a cliche about our ideas about some hieroglyphics rather than being a racial thing. No one thinks Egyptians walk that way. They just did a lot of side ways people in some of their images.
Yeah also it was an intentional artistic choice, not an innate racial characteristic.
They just really weren't very good with that whole perspective thing.
I don't get it. Is the cactus a swastika or something?
Yes, I am quite familiar with the song, which has obviously not popped out of existence following the advent of the Internet.
No, but it did exist before the internet. That was what they meant, not that the strip magically transports to a time before the internet existed with the second panel.
OK, but none of this is explaining anything.
What is left that you need explained to you?
What the actual joke is supposed to be.
I would read other comments in the post, then.
Oh, the ones that weren't there when I asked, which also don't explain it?
There's tons of comments from nine hours ago, well after you apparently still didn't understand it, that do explain it if you want to understand it and not just be an obstinate internet troll.
No, they do not explain it. None of them explain it. Nobody has explained it. Do you understand it? Can you explain it?
I'm curious. If you think about it, what do you think might be the joke? I'm not asking you if it is a funny joke or a joke that you find funny. What do you think the creator intended to be the joke?
Something about cacti resembling the poses of ancient Egyptian carved figures.
Oh come on, you can do better with all the information given! Pre internet, reference to a song, change of mind... I believe in you bud!
Oh, so you're just pretending that you get it.
I do get it, bud, though I don't find it very funny. I'm trying to encourage you to do some critical thinking here. There is more to life than to be served the lowest common denominator of everything that everybody understands effortlessly.
Try to deconstruct from what your original idea was. It is part of the set up but not punchline. The context that is needed for the joke. There are other hints too and people have commented it in plain text.
Maybe I don't get it because it isn't funny.
It could be a contributing reason but I don't think that is why.
I was going to ask if you want me to help you figure it out, because it's growing the personality to solve problems and satisfying to figure something out - but considering you keep downvoting me trying to help you, I think I'll just swing my block hammer and be on my way.
Ta ta.
You're not helping.
Did Steve Martin get canceled?
Nah, he opt out and spends his time with a banjo these days
Could we get some comic with that jpeg?