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![User Friendy by Illiad, Strip #1, (November 17th 1997)
Content: Four panel comic strip, 2x2 grid. Lovingly drawn in crude office markers, the art is evocative of Bloom County or The Far Side Sunday Comics.
Eack panel is based on the same drawing of two men. Greg, at a CRT computer, bearded. AJ watching on a Quake2 (videogame) branded T-shirt. In the first panel, Stef, a charicature of 'The Boss' from Office Space appears two years before the film's release in 1999.
[1]
Stef: Make this a priority. It's very important.
Greg: Well, I'm really busy these days. If I push hard I can have it in two weeks.
[2]
Stef (exiting): I guess I have to live with that. Thanks Greg.
Greg: No prob.
[3]
Silent Panel
[4]
AJ: Dude, what Stef wants only takes ten minutes including debugging.
Greg: Damn, I'm out of rockets.
Copyright (c) Illiad 1997
Image courtesy Internet Archive Wayback Machine <archive.org> (www.userfriendly.org) – Used with apologies to Illiad.
Context: A comic strip from the dial-up era of the web, perhaps the first webcomic ever, and therefore maybe the first serialized video entertainment on the web, User Friendly was contemporary to the early days of the developing Internet and was followed worldwide by professionals and casual browser's alike.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vozv6o7s5u3cdcdnicnhct3i/bafkreiat6koriaibqsdey262tvnnvdowluww5wib3ecupirs7zd5iri6ey)