List of early webcomics

Fox was eventually renamed Thadeus and started featuring regularly drawn strips, before Ekaitis stopped updating the comic in 1998.

Hans Bjordahl, student at the University of Colorado at the time, started posting Where the Buffalo Roam on April 15, 1992 on Usenet, in GIF and PostScript format.

Even in 1995, cartoonist Dominic White published his comics The Internet Explorer Kit for the Macintosh and Slugs through Gopher rather than the World Wide Web, despite the latter rapidly gaining popularity.

[citation needed] Being described as an early example of nerd humor, the stick figure comic made frequent references to technical topics most people with an Internet connection at the time would have knowledge of.

Despite these limitations, Huyler was one of the pioneers of the concept of infinite canvas, uploading strips in shapes and sizes other than those used in standard printed comics.

Soon, this effect was recreated by simple HTML, such as with Argon Zark!,[7] which launched in June 1995 and is occasionally listed among the earliest comics to be published on the World Wide Web.

[10] The same year, an artist going by the name Eerie created a webcomic on bulletin board systems using ANSI art, titled Inspector Dangerfuck.

[15] Though the genre was popularized by PvP, the first video game webcomic was Chris Morisson's Polymer City Chronicles, which started being published on the World Wide Web in 1995.