User Friendly is why i am where i am today. It's why i got the degree i did, why i have the career i have, why i have the viewpoints on that career i had today.
I owe my career to User Friendly. It's a really sad day for me.
www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
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Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
While looking for the OS/2 site that would have hosted User Friendly, I found OS/2 e-Zine! whose first issue is still online, with the exact same HTML as in 1995: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/
It's all so ... readable.
It's uncluttered, but the contrast isn't great.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#123I wrote a spider many years back to download the comics and display them in a local interface. Somehow it survived several migrations and was on my synology. Here is an archive of the images if anybody wants them. https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q... RIP UF, you were a big part of my childhood
Taken a copy - thank you! I'll probably throw up a mirror of the strips on my site at some point.
For others, this archive is 1997 to 2013 and is images of the strip only. I stopped reading UF around that time I think. Like many things on the web, it's only really relatable to a person for a certain period of time, before you move on (XKCD was the same, used to regularly read it, now I hardly do.)
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I think you mean UF--- (Does anyone remember Geek Code? Does anyone else still have their Geek Code .sig file?)
I have a mirror of the original pages about The Geek Code:
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#125Can someone explain the significance of this to HN noobs (apparently I'm one)?
User Friendly was the first big web-comic, the first to establish the idea of a web-comic as a primary medium, as opposed to being adapted from another source (newspapers) or intellectual property. It started in 1997 which was really early in Internet time, around the peak of the dial-up era (and the setting is a workplace of a dial-up ISP.) It may not have quite been the first web-comic, but it was the one that firs…
> User Friendly was the first big web-comic, the first to establish the idea of a web-comic as a primary medium [...] in 1997
"The first" might be overselling it. For example, Kevin and Kell started in 1995. This TvTropes listing [1] has some more, but oddly enough UF isn't on there so perhaps others are missing also.
[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicsLongRun...
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#126A webcomic that started back when mid-sized US/Canadian towns really did have one-stop ISPs that employed both experienced sysadmins, the new web designers doing sites for local businesses, and students just getting started in IT - and were places where all of the above could actually advance or at least enjoy their careers, not just languish as call center drones. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of summers in h…
Are there any businesses that are like this now? I'm based in europe and this sounds like the ideal environment for me
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#127Shame to see it go, I still have my Dust Puppy on the shelf and a signed User Friendly card, I got back at a conf. in the 90's.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#128A webcomic that started back when mid-sized US/Canadian towns really did have one-stop ISPs that employed both experienced sysadmins, the new web designers doing sites for local businesses, and students just getting started in IT - and were places where all of the above could actually advance or at least enjoy their careers, not just languish as call center drones. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of summers in h…
Are there any businesses that are like this now? I'm based in europe and this sounds like the ideal environment for me
TNG/ennit in Kiel seems to be the closest example I know of, but even they're quite a bit larger (with all the bureaucracy that comes with that).
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#129There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant. Others I recall: - "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost. - "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in fi…
"Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet"
https://web.archive.org/web/20160408073302/http://sweetheart...
Oh my: "In 2014 the strip was pitched for development as a live-action television situation comedy [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen,_Sweetheart_of_the_Inter...
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
User Friendly was the first big web-comic, the first to establish the idea of a web-comic as a primary medium, as opposed to being adapted from another source (newspapers) or intellectual property. It started in 1997 which was really early in Internet time, around the peak of the dial-up era (and the setting is a workplace of a dial-up ISP.) It may not have quite been the first web-comic, but it was the one that firs…
> User Friendly was the first big web-comic, the first to establish the idea of a web-comic as a primary medium [...] in 1997 "The first" might be overselling it. For example, Kevin and Kell started in 1995. This TvTropes listing [1] has some more, but oddly enough UF isn't on there so perhaps others are missing also. [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicsLongRun...
There are two lists on that page. Ongoing and discontinued.
UF is on the discontinued list under "13 years"