Where the Buffalo Roam (webcomic)

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Where the Buffalo Roam
Author(s)	Hans Bjordahl
Website	http://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/
Current status / schedule	Completed
Launch date	1992 (online)
End Date	1994

Where the Buffalo Roam was among the first Internet comic strips. T.H.E. Fox was published earlier, in 1986, on Compuserve and Quantum Link.

Originally created as a college strip, it featured subjects associated with college life at the time, with topics like "parking nazis", "shroom patrol" and "alliance for the vertically challenged", as well as computer-related situations.

The main characters were undergrads Zack, Scooby, Hilary and Sharon, and a cat named "Dio".

1 History
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Created as a college strip in the Colorado Daily in 1987.

The strip became the first regularly updated Internet comic strip in 1992.^[1] The panels were scanned and posted daily as GIF and PostScript files on a Usenet group.^[1]

Ths strip was available on its own "alt" group: alt.comics.buffalo-roam for a couple of years.^{[citation needed]}

The strip was moved to the Web in 1993, after the advent of the NCSA Mosaic browser made viewing images directly over the Web possble. It was preceded on the Web by Doctor Fun, a daily single panel cartoon feature that was originally created for print, but moved to the Web and is the first regularly updated cartoon on the Web. See Webcomic.

Where the Buffalo Roam ran until late 1994. An archive remains online, but new material has not been added.

The creator, Hans Bjordahl, currently contributes to the Mr. Cranky review site.

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b Daily comic strip comming to alt.comics.buffalo-roam Herb Morreale, Apr 14 1992, "Starting Wednesday, April 15 (something good had to happen on that day), XOR Network Engineering will start bringing you "Where the Buffalo Roam" on a daily basis."