this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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The Far Side
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bello Bear
!BelloBear@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial
Bloom County
!bloomcounty@lemm.ee
https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes
!calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness
!cyanideandhappiness
https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield
!garfield@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side
!thefarside@sh.itjust.works
https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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Comic is from 1990. The Internet was very much a thing.
There was no widely available internet, which is what would matter in this context.
I mean it depends on what you mean by internet. There were BBSes but the world wide web didn't really start taking traffic from the general public until 93. HTML hadn't even been invented in 90.
The world wide web runs on top of the internet, but its not the same thing as the internet.
In the 1980s the internet existed, with forum-like things running on top it, but access to it wasn't widely distributed.
BBSes just used the preexisting telephone network. (Which, yes, dial up internet access later did too, but in the case of dial up you'd be calling the number of an ISP, and afterward your connection would run over net infrastructure. In the case of a BBS you'd be dialing the person running the server directly.)
EDIT: you probably already know this, but just clarifying for others.
Instead of image macros and youtube videos, we traded monty python transcripts and buxom line printer art.