Does this image have an Origin story? It seems far too Random to exist on it's own.. I had thought it might be related to Asterisk , the Open Source PBX software, but the name on the file says 1995.. "Your search - link:www.paulgraham.com/asterisk.html - did not match any documents."
As far as I remember it appeared on the front page of Paul Graham's site around the time "What you can't say" was first published.