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

Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by an_mp_speaks on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:29PM (#30593555)

This 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.

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by yayachiken on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:57PM (#30593829)

Hackles?

http://www.hackles.org/

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by kawsper on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:54PM (#30594452)

I used to read that when I was a child, I am glad it is still online. I am also happy that they managed to finish the story :)

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by an_mp_speaks on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:59PM (#30593860)

That's the one!

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by yayachiken on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:15PM (#30594061)

By the way, if you liked the old-school "ISP shenenigans and Unix jokes" web-comic genre, make sure to check out https://www.gpf-comics.com/

It's still going, IMO still not stale (without going into spoilers: the setting really helps), even though it is also scheduled to wind down (tying up all loose threads) in the next 1-2 years.

As a teen I read web-comics like GPF, Userfriendly, Sluggy Freelance religiously, which really helped my English and my nerd career. Finding out about all those big web comics dying is the first time that I genuinely feel in my core that I am getting older... :(

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by hkt on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:44PM (#30594358)

I feel older for the same reason - it sucks watching the internet of my youth slip away.

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by duskwuff on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:49PM (#30593753)

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!)

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by an_mp_speaks on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:56PM (#30593816)

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.

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by tentacleuno on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:39AM (#30598839)

Mmm, have you got any more of these [pre-]2000's webcomics? I love them, they're like a snapshot of a totally different era.

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by duskwuff on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:51AM (#30602144)

Better yet, I've got a whole list of long-running webcomics:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicsLongRun...

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Re:www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Pu... by fluidcruft on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:39PM (#30593641)

Oh... I remember that. What the heck was that...

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