Lucy Notarantonio is Newsweek's Senior Lifestyle and Trends Reporter, based in Birmingham, UK. Her focus is trending stories and human interest features ranging from health, pets and travel.

In the beginning, he was just a cartoon dog in a burning house, apathetic about his dire predicament. “This is fine,” he said, to no one in particular. But a decade after artist K.C. Green ...

In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon featuring two dogs sitting at a computer. With a paw resting on the keyboard, one says to the other: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” ...