Five years of remote work? Try 25 years.

For a comic strip starring stick figures, Randall Monroe's xkcd has long been unusually relatable. Never more so than five years ago this month, when the strip offered its iconic response to COVID lockdowns around the world. 

"Experts are saying people may need to self-isolate to combat the virus," says a TV reporter in the first panel. A stick figure viewer takes a beat, then announces: "I've been practicing for this moment my whole life."

Introverted homebodies everywhere could relate.