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by pavlov 1564 days ago
Wow, one of the originals from the Precambrian era of the web.

I have a vague recollection that User Friendly started publishing on an OS/2 Warp fan site sometime around 1995-96.

(Edit: on quick googling, I'm probably wrong and confusing it with something else from that era.)

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Part of the good old web for me: userfriendly, slashdot, zophar's domain, crackstore, fosi.da.ru, fravia, gamasutra... among several others. Those were amazing times.
Sinfest too, at least before it became a strange mix of extremist postures. The art is still great, though.
At least the original Space Jam website lives on, although I see they relocated it with the release of the sequel last year.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

While looking for the OS/2 site that would have hosted User Friendly, I found OS/2 e-Zine! whose first issue is still online, with the exact same HTML as in 1995:

http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/

  <FONT SIZE=+3>
It's all so ... readable.
It's uncluttered, but the contrast isn't great.
It looks great on mobile too.