I don’t know who came first, and I know that there are others with this exact joke, but this was the first one I have seen.
(I was unable to find the author or original source of this one.)
There are many! The official ones by the Internet Archive are generally called “Wayback Machine,” and there are lots of unofficial ones that bundle in functionality for other archiving sites as well. Look around on your favorite browser’s repositories and find things to play with.
I don’t know who came first, and I know that there are others with this exact joke, but this was the first one I have seen.
(I was unable to find the author or original source of this one.)
still nobody checking out the cashier
The original source of that version you posted is the Berger & Wyse comic strip from The Guardian, 2 November 2013.
Found via uploading the image to tineye.com and sorting by oldest, and then using web.archive.org to navigate now-dead links it returned.
Sounds like a lot of work
It took me all of fifteen seconds or so, but I do have browser extensions for Tineye and Internet Archive which sped things up.
There’s a browser extension for Internet Archive?!
There are many! The official ones by the Internet Archive are generally called “Wayback Machine,” and there are lots of unofficial ones that bundle in functionality for other archiving sites as well. Look around on your favorite browser’s repositories and find things to play with.
I use Chrome :(
But is Chrome your favorite browser?
Well, I prefer Edge tbh