User Friendly Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
- For the concept in software engineering, see user-friendliness.
It is drawn and authored by J.D. Frazer, a.k.a. "Illiad". It is considered to be one of the first major webcomics, and has been running since November 17, 1997. Its popularity inspired many other webcomics with similar themes, the most popular being Penny Arcade and PvP.
User Friendly is now published in a variety of newspapers, as well, making it one of the first webcomics to make the transition from the net to the mainstream.
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Characters
Dust Puppy
The Dust Puppy first appeared in the strip on December 3 1997; born in a server from a combination of dust, lint and quantum events, the Dust Puppy looks similar to a ball of dust and lint, with eyes, feet and an occasional big smile. He was briefly absent from the strip from January 6 to January 10 1998 after accidentally being blown with compressed air while sleeping inside a dusty server.
Although the Dust Puppy is very innocent and everything but worldly, he plays a superb game of Quake, doing his first deathmatch only four days after his initial appearance in the strip, on December 7 1997, and even beating Zock, the Quake god, on February 13 1998; he also created an artificial intelligence named Erwin on January 25 1998, with whom he has been known to do occasional song performances (the first one being on February 8, 1998).
Generally, all the other characters in the strip like the Dust Puppy; notable exceptions to this are Stef and the Dust Puppy's evil nemesis, the Crud Puppy, who first appeared in the strip on February 24 1998.
The Dust Puppy has (in the strip for January 17 1998) described himself as:
- "I walk around looking short, and sleep in the servers, and give advice to people who need it and sometimes I even play Quake."
Erwin
From Userfriendly.org's Character Gallery: "Erwin is a highly advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) that resides somewhere on the network. He was created overnight by the Dust Puppy, who was feeling kind of bored. Erwin passes the Turing Test with flying colours, and has a dry sense of humour. He is an expert on any subject that is covered on the World Wide Web, such as Elvis sightings and alien conspiracies."Erwin was created in the January 25, 1998 strip by Dust Puppy during experimentation in Artificial intelligence.
He was named three days later, on January 28, 1998, in light of the alternative, "web designer".
Originally, Erwin occupied the classic 'monitor and keyboard' type computer with an x86 computer architecture, but was later given such residences as an iMac, a Palm III, a Coleco Adam on MIR, a Furby, an SGI O2, a Hewlett-Packard Calculator (with reverse Polish notation), a Lego Mindstorms construction, and a Tamagotchi.
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Bibliography
Several cartoon compilations have been published:
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