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by bdbz 1563 days ago
I wrote a spider many years back to download the comics and display them in a local interface.

Somehow it survived several migrations and was on my synology.

Here is an archive of the images if anybody wants them.

https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q...

RIP UF, you were a big part of my childhood

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That sounds like something that would interest archive.org
I'll look into that.

TBH I would be interested in migrating and hosting the website at my own expense.

Many thanks, I've got it on my NAS now. Fond memories of reading UF.
Taken a copy - thank you! I'll probably throw up a mirror of the strips on my site at some point.

For others, this archive is 1997 to 2013 and is images of the strip only. I stopped reading UF around that time I think. Like many things on the web, it's only really relatable to a person for a certain period of time, before you move on (XKCD was the same, used to regularly read it, now I hardly do.)

I bought on of his books but it’s not the complete series.
UF also provided text transcripts which were searchable - did you get those too?
I was not aware that was a thing :( Maybe I can do something with OCR/ML