Oh! During the .com wave they were part of my daily news round before getting into the office.
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 :(
#42I posted a link to there just four months ago¹: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226164056/http://ars.userfr...
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#43Sad. Made me think of other sites I'd visit for similar content.
The Bastard Operator from Hell (BOFH) is actually still around and new content being written.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#44Haven't seen it in years, but I still remember naming the cat: "Script or Five? Which hurts less?"
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#45A 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…
I could've written every word of this. That launched a pretty fun career for me.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#46I loved that webcomic back then, also have one of his books. Sad to see it go away, although there have been no new submission for some time.
Some cartoons were quite hilarious; I had this one on the wall above my desk.
https://teddit.net/pics/w:720_5tenj3387my51.png
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#47Can someone explain the significance of this to HN noobs (apparently I'm one)?
It was often hilarious if you happened to work at a local ISP in the era the comic was started (late 90s), back when $20-30/mo for dialup was a good deal, and customers could drop their computers off to have their modems and Netscape installed and Windows configured to dial in. Or for $40 extra, have some high school kid working there drop by :)
I was one of those HS kids!
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#48This gives me a chance to ask about a different webcomic that I read in the early 2000s, but have totally forgotten. It also took place at a small development company or ISP. There was a dog who was a system administrator, and he might have been in love with a cat? All the characters were animals, I think, and there were the usual 90s-early 00s Linux/Microsoft jokes.
Could you be thinking of Kevin and Kell ( https://www.kevinandkell.com/ )? The species don't quite match up, but the general description and the time period do. (And it's still running daily strips, making it the longest-running web comic!)
That's not it, as far as I can tell. The art in the comic I'm thinking of had something of an MS-Paint quality, and wasn't nearly as developed. But thanks for the guess! I've never heard of this one before.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#49This gives me a chance to ask about a different webcomic that I read in the early 2000s, but have totally forgotten. It also took place at a small development company or ISP. There was a dog who was a system administrator, and he might have been in love with a cat? All the characters were animals, I think, and there were the usual 90s-early 00s Linux/Microsoft jokes.
Hackles?
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#50Wow, 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.)
At least the original Space Jam website lives on, although I see they relocated it with the release of the sequel last year. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
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: