I was ten years old and just starting to think a computer would be a cool upgrade to my IBM Selectric typewriter. The few comics that made it online tended to be work by college students studying computer-tech stuff, since those were just about the only people with Internet access. Readers had to subscribe to mailing lists or Usenet groups and have comics emailed to them. How did we survive? Well, I didn’t. These were hairy and primitive times, with comics sparse on the ground. Doctor Fun (1993), a gag panel by David Farley, was the first comic published on the Web, with its own website and everything. The earliest webcomics predate the World Wide Web and are almost as old as public online file transfer. Eric Monster Millikin, best known for the alt-strip FetusX, lays claim to the first online comic, a Wizard of Oz parody called “Witches in Stitches” that he distributed through CompuServe. Hans Bjordahl’s Where the Buffalo Roam, a gag strip published online through FTP and Usenet starting in 1991, billed itself as “The Internet’s First Comic Strip” and was the first regularly updated online comic. Many thanks to T Campbell for his input and his years of experience trying to figure out webcomics.ġ985-1992: The Stone Age.
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