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Let's segue to 1994, shall we.

As daring as the first crop of comics published over the Internet were, this really couldn't last. The limitations of the bandwidth during the 1990s (large images like photographs often took several minutes to fully show) meant distributing a regularly updated comic through the web favored art styles that were really, really simple. This is, incidentally, also the reason why newspaper comics preferred cartoony styles: they were generally easier (and, for that matter, faster) to draw on a regular basis. Some artists also started experimenting with layout styles not possible in print, though the layout chosen here represents a print-format that doesn't always give the same impact.

Several webcomics today still retain the very simplistic art styles used by their predecessors in the past, carrying the entire gag or story through dialogue and, on occasion, immensely detailed (if stylized) background. A few examples include:
Order of the Stick
Cyanide and Happiness
Perry Bible Fellowship
Homestar Runner
Sinfest
MS Paint Adventures (notably known for its most famous arc, Homestuck)

This very strip uses an art style rather loosely inspired by the comic NetBoy, first published around the year of the setting.

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NOTES:

As this is the 1990s, Internet is around 11, going on 12 in this picture.

At around that time webcomics became a thing, the video game industry had just recovered from the Video Game Crash of 1983, which would be a subject of a different comic. While the industry had rebounded by the 1990s, it began a series of intercompany and community conflicts known as the console wars. Here, it is represented as VG having a terrible skin allergy.

Deathmate was published at around this time.

f**king dial-up.

B^U

Description
Let's segue to 1994, shall we.

As daring as the first crop of comics published over the Internet were, this really couldn't last. The limitations of the bandwidth during the 1990s (large images like photographs often took several minutes to fully show) meant distributing a regularly updated comic through the web favored art styles that were really, really simple. This is, incidentally, also the reason why newspaper comics preferred cartoony styles: they were generally easier (and, for that matter, faster) to draw on a regular basis. Some artists also started experimenting with layout styles not possible in print, though the layout chosen here represents a print-format that doesn't always give the same impact.

Several webcomics today still retain the very simplistic art styles used by their predecessors in the past, carrying the entire gag or story through dialogue and, on occasion, immensely detailed (if stylized) background. A few examples include:
Order of the Stick
Cyanide and Happiness
Perry Bible Fellowship
Homestar Runner
Sinfest
MS Paint Adventures (notably known for its most famous arc, Homestuck)

This very strip uses an art style rather loosely inspired by the comic NetBoy, first published around the year of the setting.

---

NOTES:

As this is the 1990s, Internet is around 11, going on 12 in this picture.

At around that time webcomics became a thing, the video game industry had just recovered from the Video Game Crash of 1983, which would be a subject of a different comic. While the industry had rebounded by the 1990s, it began a series of intercompany and community conflicts known as the console wars. Here, it is represented as VG having a terrible skin allergy.

Deathmate was published at around this time.

f**king dial-up.

B^U