I did like 98SE a lot, was impressed by 95 and loved 3.1, but the first really great, stable, modern windows was 2k

Considered your approach to the joke, but I don’t think that’s it. “Phones bad” is so prevalent that the author must be aware of it, if they wanted to make a meta joke about a fisher being fished (which is pretty good imo) they would have used literally anything else as the bait. Using a phone and making it blatantly explicit with the speech bubble reduces any subtlety in the cartoon to “phones bad”.

29/12/2025 and boomers are still rehashing the “phones bad” joke. Can’t say they don’t have perseverance.