I think this one would be funnier if it didn’t stick to the four-panel strip format, and had more beat panels of Joe typing and Danny looking more and more exasperated.
Of course, given the newspaper format, that wouldn’t have been possible anyway.
So, place your bets: flirted with everyone online and then propositioned any women there for sex (Successfully, since it’s Joe), ASCII penis, made some fairly innocuous joke Danny finds obscene, this Nachito, or other?
I’m trying to remember what the internet was like back in the 90s and all I can recall from chatrooms of the time is people using pictures of models and pretending that it’s a photo of themselves or guys posing as lesbians.
Did chat on the internet have pictures back then? I seem to remember the idea of avatars being revolutionary in the early 2000s, and the 90s having differently coloured text to show how funky and up to date sites were.
It’s no wonder that something like MySpace took off as much as it did.
I’m a young guy, at 23 years of age (shut it any of you even younger readers!) so i’m kinda confused. This “chat line” that Joe speaks of, is it like msn messenger? that’s what we used when I was a kid!
Did anyone else here get their start on telnet “talkers” such as Resort, Foothills, Crazylands, and Tower? For those of you who remember them, Tower evolved into Brigandine, and is still up and running!
I don’t think we had IRC in Denmark before it kinda died down in the other parts of the world. I never used it, and I’m considered semi tech savy among friends.
In 1997, I was nine years old and had no idea what an internet was, much less a chatroom. Computers were something my dad did in the attic (not as dodgy as it sounds) and chat was something my mum did with her friends over coffee.
My earliest time using the internet was on 1999, and here in Mexico the popular stuff was something called “Latinchat”. Or ICQ. Mirc and all the Irc systems and I never got along XD
Also, his computer appears to be an Apple II or something of that ilk, rather than a (still quite clunky) mid-late 90s pizzabox or midi tower with separate slimline keyboard and flat-tube/ fat-bezel CRT on its own single-foot stand… It even makes the hacked-together 486 with 286-spec amber-screen monitor I was using as my own personal machine at the time seem modern.
I think my first interweb experience was somewhere around 95-96, btw, in the school library, and it was pretty magical. Didn’t get home internet until about 97. Home internet porn a couple months later when I figured out how to add newsgroups to the email client. Getting in trouble for looking at internet porn very soon after as I didn’t think to delete the newsgroup subscriptions after looking at them. Massive trouble for spending way too long online and running up a huge phone bill (remember that? being billed for the TIME you spent connected to the net?) sometime in 98 after discovering you can use the thing for talking to people (newsgroups, guestbooks, IRC, email … no one had heard of a “forum” at that point) and making your own viewable material instead of just being a consumer… Ahhh geocities.
And then around 99 came mp3s as a commonly transferrable medium (had already been making some for personal use for a couple years at least) and napster and everything started to change.
I like to divide the internet into “Pre-YouTube” and “Post-YouTube” eras, although arguably the change between the so-called “Web 1.0” (primarily based on the consumption of media/information) and “Web 2.0” (primarily based on the sharing of media/information) began sooner than YT did.
Ah, changing times. I was about to move on from this strip, and then I noticed what I at first read as the USB symbol on Danny’s hoodie. I suppose if I’d gone to IU I would have realized sooner that it was an inexactly-drawn IU logo from an odd angle.
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I would have assumed his first interaction would be along the lines of ASL, except cruder.
The mistake was telling Joe to be himself.
I think this one would be funnier if it didn’t stick to the four-panel strip format, and had more beat panels of Joe typing and Danny looking more and more exasperated.
Of course, given the newspaper format, that wouldn’t have been possible anyway.
Danny, the primary rule of comedy applies to handing out advice:
Know your audience.
That’s our Joe!
So, place your bets: flirted with everyone online and then propositioned any women there for sex (Successfully, since it’s Joe), ASCII penis, made some fairly innocuous joke Danny finds obscene, this Nachito, or other?
ASCII penis, of course. how can he talk to anyone without introducing them to lil’Joe?
I’m trying to remember what the internet was like back in the 90s and all I can recall from chatrooms of the time is people using pictures of models and pretending that it’s a photo of themselves or guys posing as lesbians.
That and Yahoo! and Geoshitties.
Did chat on the internet have pictures back then? I seem to remember the idea of avatars being revolutionary in the early 2000s, and the 90s having differently coloured text to show how funky and up to date sites were.
It’s no wonder that something like MySpace took off as much as it did.
You know we mock them but some of these strips are actually quite good. Personally I always liked this one.
I’m a young guy, at 23 years of age (shut it any of you even younger readers!) so i’m kinda confused. This “chat line” that Joe speaks of, is it like msn messenger? that’s what we used when I was a kid!
It was probably IRC.
Did anyone else here get their start on telnet “talkers” such as Resort, Foothills, Crazylands, and Tower? For those of you who remember them, Tower evolved into Brigandine, and is still up and running!
I don’t think we had IRC in Denmark before it kinda died down in the other parts of the world. I never used it, and I’m considered semi tech savy among friends.
In 1997, I was nine years old and had no idea what an internet was, much less a chatroom. Computers were something my dad did in the attic (not as dodgy as it sounds) and chat was something my mum did with her friends over coffee.
Yea, the late 90’s. When life was simple.
To me the internet was invented in 2000. Maybe 1999. You get the point.
My earliest time using the internet was on 1999, and here in Mexico the popular stuff was something called “Latinchat”. Or ICQ. Mirc and all the Irc systems and I never got along XD
Also, his computer appears to be an Apple II or something of that ilk, rather than a (still quite clunky) mid-late 90s pizzabox or midi tower with separate slimline keyboard and flat-tube/ fat-bezel CRT on its own single-foot stand… It even makes the hacked-together 486 with 286-spec amber-screen monitor I was using as my own personal machine at the time seem modern.
I think my first interweb experience was somewhere around 95-96, btw, in the school library, and it was pretty magical. Didn’t get home internet until about 97. Home internet porn a couple months later when I figured out how to add newsgroups to the email client. Getting in trouble for looking at internet porn very soon after as I didn’t think to delete the newsgroup subscriptions after looking at them. Massive trouble for spending way too long online and running up a huge phone bill (remember that? being billed for the TIME you spent connected to the net?) sometime in 98 after discovering you can use the thing for talking to people (newsgroups, guestbooks, IRC, email … no one had heard of a “forum” at that point) and making your own viewable material instead of just being a consumer… Ahhh geocities.
And then around 99 came mp3s as a commonly transferrable medium (had already been making some for personal use for a couple years at least) and napster and everything started to change.
I like to divide the internet into “Pre-YouTube” and “Post-YouTube” eras, although arguably the change between the so-called “Web 1.0” (primarily based on the consumption of media/information) and “Web 2.0” (primarily based on the sharing of media/information) began sooner than YT did.
Ah, changing times. I was about to move on from this strip, and then I noticed what I at first read as the USB symbol on Danny’s hoodie. I suppose if I’d gone to IU I would have realized sooner that it was an inexactly-drawn IU logo from an odd angle.
I’m trying to figure out why Danny is wearing the USB symbol on his shirt/sweater.
Originally posted:
October 9, 1997