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Canada.com: User Friendly comic strip for geeks cashing in on cyberspace humour

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 21, 2000

“The techno-geeks who live and work in cyberspace, always the
butt of outsiders’ jokes, apparently enjoy poking fun at
themselves.”

After years of being lampooned by mainstream media as
pocket protector-wearing nerds, they’ve embraced a Canadian
Internet comic strip and turned it into gold for its Vancouver
creators.
Fans of User Friendly, which follows the workers at
fictitious Columbia Internet, compare it with Dilbert.”

“It’s fuelling the growth of userfriendly.org – 1.7 million
visits and 10 million page views per month – and drawing cash like
a magnet.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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