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Published: 2013-07-01 20:10:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 13464; Favourites: 557; Downloads: 345
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Description The older regions of any network were always more interesting to her, and this one was proving no exception. There was none of that heavily abstracted, multi-layered nonsense she regularly dealt with. Not here. A simple place with simple aesthetics, content could be found in plain sight here, quietly awaiting processing - not wrapped in the awkward tinsel of elaborate markup languages and difficult scripts. This browsing experience was much more relaxing. In its own simplistic way, it was deeper, and more meaningful.

There was no reason to travel this way. No need to take such a long way round, past all the old and obsolete data, their relevance long since lost on the modern world. But as the warm light of the digital sun set in the distance, and the gentle glow of the webscape took over, she strolled onwards in silent appreciation. Onwards, down the Yellow-Bit Road.

More Pepsi/Opera! Here you go. This started as a fairly basic image (just Pepsi on her own)... then I got carried away. I need to let it go though, got other stuff to do. So here it is, as is!

What would it be like to ignore the directions of the Internet's various routers and switchgear, and take an old pathway, once buzzing with activity but long abandoned, to reach your destination? I like to think, were you to visualise it, that such a route would look fairly low-res and pixelated (and awesome). Not unlike the original Tron, I suppose of which parts of this could be quite reminiscent.

2880x1800 res, let me know if you need bigger though (can't imagine why!).

Low-light images are tricky. In the draft phase there was nothing about this image which looked right but I'm fairly happy to let it go now. If I don't I'll just waste more time tweaking things, and there's Websurfer comics to finish...
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Comments: 75

genstian [2013-07-01 22:22:12 +0000 UTC]

Beware, there are hidden treasures down there, like the first echos and pings of the internet.

Ow those good old IMP and PDP-11 routes.

Maybe she finds the hidden route out of the TCP/IP world, and into the old Xerox network? Or even NetWare/NCP.

Out there be monsters!

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Rhiss [2013-07-01 22:16:07 +0000 UTC]

My favorite may be Chromia, but Pepsi's a close second, and this is gorgeous.

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TLSpark [2013-07-01 21:41:12 +0000 UTC]

Another amazing work of an interesting world in the ponyverse.

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Joakaha [2013-07-01 21:26:45 +0000 UTC]

Cute! ^^

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Tearahk [2013-07-01 21:23:51 +0000 UTC]

This whole piece lis pretty awesome

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Speedy526745 [2013-07-01 21:02:14 +0000 UTC]

This would make an awesome desktop background!
*checks res*
I see this was your intention.

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blackmorn In reply to ??? [2013-07-01 20:53:31 +0000 UTC]

We now need Tron Pepsi. and daft punk.

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NicolasDominique [2013-07-01 20:45:10 +0000 UTC]

Yay, Pepsi!

Nicely done xd

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ScottWolf In reply to ??? [2013-07-01 20:43:22 +0000 UTC]

If you meet some little people and a witch in a big pink dress, run!

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Sarahostervig [2013-07-01 20:20:20 +0000 UTC]

ooh i loove this.

Question: i love the idea of those small yellow sticks with beirries kinda on it and wondered if i couldd make some aimilar for my comic??

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ParallaxMLP In reply to Sarahostervig [2013-07-01 20:22:25 +0000 UTC]

Go for it! I'm fairly sure I'm not the first to draw weird glowing berry things

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Sarahostervig In reply to ParallaxMLP [2013-07-01 20:23:04 +0000 UTC]

xD thankies i just wanted to ask before doing x33

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Template93 [2013-07-01 20:18:17 +0000 UTC]

Thats cool! i like the background!

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LonMcGregor [2013-07-01 20:15:53 +0000 UTC]

Question: Given that "opera next" uses an entirely different engine 【chrome, not presto】, do you think you would still use pepsi as a ponification?

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ParallaxMLP In reply to LonMcGregor [2013-07-01 20:19:37 +0000 UTC]

A good question! For the purposes of simplicity, I think so, yeah. You don't really want these characters to have too short a lifecycle, it would seem odd that they become obsolete so fast. I'd prefer to explain the transition as Pepsi re-learning how to browse the web from Chromia.

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elgregorPL In reply to ParallaxMLP [2014-04-20 20:12:46 +0000 UTC]

How about Pepsi being reborn? You could explain lack of features by being young and inexperienced. And use bit different design, probably more flat.

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nasc2 In reply to ParallaxMLP [2013-07-02 07:49:14 +0000 UTC]

What do you think about them killing most of Opera features in Opera next ?

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ParallaxMLP In reply to nasc2 [2013-07-03 19:17:07 +0000 UTC]

I think it's irritating but a necessary evil if they're gonna switch to an entirely different base, which is pretty much what they're doing. Would be nice if they replicated some of the original functionality though

As to how it pertains to Pepsi here... haven't really decided how to address that exactly, yet!

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nasc2 In reply to ParallaxMLP [2013-07-03 20:38:00 +0000 UTC]

Also seeing this picture makes me miss Opera even more
Even if I still use it - it is inevitable that some time later current version will become outdated and I will have to switch it to another browser. And it 99% will not be opera next.
I do not know about you but I use Opera for about ten years now. It sounds silly to feel nostalgic for piece of software, but I will really miss her.

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nasc2 In reply to ParallaxMLP [2013-07-03 20:32:43 +0000 UTC]

What makes me sad - there are webkit based browsers that are not "yet another chrome clone".
I hoped that new engine will give them resources to hone those things which made Opera Opera. Usability, customization, etc.
I still hope that they will do something later, but that hope is bleak.
It seems that they totally switched not only engine but target audience also. I cannot imagine how could I manage my ~1000 bookmarks without hierarchical structure.

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elgregorPL In reply to nasc2 [2014-04-20 19:58:03 +0000 UTC]

I used Opera as my backup browser for a long time. I liked it too. New one is snappier - that's kind of nice - but it's so crippled... Last time I checked they haven't even implemented proper bookmarks. On the one hand it's still young and features will surely come back, but only subset of them, I'm afraid. Oh, and there's no Linux version as for now.

I can recommend Firefox. It also has tree structure for bookmarks (you can have folders in folders). It's less featureful (no mail client, no torrent downloader, etc.), but still a lot better than Chrome. And tab groups feature is a killer one for me; my entire browsing workflow depends on it. Plus it's open and not pushed by Google

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genstian In reply to ParallaxMLP [2013-07-01 22:24:02 +0000 UTC]

New shoes

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fairyjuicy [2013-07-01 20:13:02 +0000 UTC]

awesomee!

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Kaychu-The-Gamer [2013-07-01 20:11:38 +0000 UTC]

I love your Internet-pony designs so much. <3

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