Cyberdog was Apple’s discontinued OpenDoc-based Internet suite, introduced as a beta in February 1996. It combined several Internet tools rather than functioning as only a standalone web browser.
Cyberdog included a web browser, email and news readers, address-book features, and drag-and-drop FTP. OpenDoc allowed these components to be embedded in other documents, so a live Cyberdog web page could appear inside an OpenDoc presentation or similar document.
Apple released Cyberdog 1.0 on May 13, 1996, followed by version 1.2 in December. Cyberdog 2.0 was released on April 28, 1997, but Apple had already abandoned the project and laid off much of its team in March 1997 as the broader OpenDoc effort was cancelled.
The name came from a New Yorker cartoon captioned “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Cyberdog is often confused with Sherlock, another Apple Internet-related product, but Sherlock was a search utility rather than the OpenDoc Internet suite described here.