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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 :(

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Post by ASalazarMX »

xtracto wrote: post #60
pavlov wrote: post #20

Wow, one of the originals from the Precambrian era of the web. I have a vague recollection that User Friendly started publishing on an OS/2 Warp fan site sometime around 1995-96. (Edit: on quick googling, I'm probably wrong and confusing it with something else from that era.)

Part of the good old web for me: userfriendly, slashdot, zophar's domain, crackstore, fosi.da.ru, fravia, gamasutra... among several others. Those were amazing times.

Sinfest too, at least before it became a strange mix of extremist postures. The art is still great, though.

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#142

Post by bdbz »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #108
bdbz wrote: post #80

I 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

UF also provided text transcripts which were searchable - did you get those too?

I was not aware that was a thing :( Maybe I can do something with OCR/ML

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#143

Post by dredmorbius »

blywi wrote: post #131
dredmorbius wrote: post #64

There 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…

Some other webcomics I remember from that time: - CFRH or College Roomies from Hell, still ongoing although at a much slower pace: http://www.crfh.net/ - Sabrina Online, started 1996 by Eric W. Schwartz of Amiga fame: https://www.sabrina-online.com/ - General Protection Fault, like the name suggest, this one also has an IT setting: https://www.gpf-comics.com/ - Roomies! and It's Walky! - A teen romantic comedy: http:…

Man, I'd nearly forgotten GPF...

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#144

Post by dredmorbius »

fl0wenol wrote: post #140
dredmorbius wrote: post #64

There 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…

I think I remember "Westward Ho!", but I can't find anything that isn't the 1924 novel anymore. Do you have any more information about it?

It was drawn relatively realistically, had a very short run, maybe a dozen strips or fewer. I think there were two main characters, both female. One the eponymous Ho, the other something of a Robin Hood-ish / Lone-Ranger-ish character.

Shenanigans ensued ... for a brief but glorious time.

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#145

Post by Terr_ »

bhaak wrote: post #130
Terr_ wrote: post #125

Earlier 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 [...] 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"

Ah, you're right.

As someone who got dial-up in the mid-90s, I remember regularly reading so many of the comics on these lists and it makes me feel old... Some of them are still in my bookmarks...

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#148

Post by zem »

dredmorbius wrote: post #64

There 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…

"ozy and millie" was another favourite of mine from the userfriendly era

Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(

#149

Post by handoflixue »

kstrauser wrote: post #103
handoflixue wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've kinda lost track of object reality there: "Only logged in users who are deliberately un-hiding this content" is hardly "as valid as any other content". Slashdot's attitude is that things which are "removed" (voted to zero) ought to be auditable. This means everyone knows what the rules REALLY are (as opposed to what people SAY they are), and it also prevents the system from being abused (since you can triviall…

I’m definitely not logged in. Do you have a content blocker that hides comments on websites?

Turns out I did, but I still know that when browsing a Slashdot thread, it will auto-hide Score 0 comments. I'm also noticing that thread is from four years ago (2018), and has hundreds of comments (605!) so you'd have really had to dig for that example.
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