Comments | ashwolf: the world is crazy

ashwolf

Apr 26, 2007 00:31

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_mascots?slide=10&slideView=8From the Dept. of Who Knew?, there appears to be a whole school of amateur manga devoted to personifying Microsoft operating systems. ( Read more... )

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topologist April 26 2007, 12:32:20 UTC

Holy shit. This is weird even for anime. Your link seems to be broken (at least temporarily), but here's the wikipedia page on the manga.

philiptan April 26 2007, 18:00:04 UTC

Ah, OS-tans. There's a new bunch of console-tans out there as well, coinciding with the new generation of gaming machines.

philiptan April 26 2007, 18:00:51 UTC

Wait, it took Wired until April 2007 to catch on? That's really slow.

ashwolf April 27 2007, 18:50:22 UTC

The Wired article wasn't about these icons specifically, it was about lame IT mascots over the last few years.

sbyrne April 26 2007, 23:23:09 UTC

Hahaha lame. What do the characters do, besides crash? And what crazy loud loser tried to equate boob size with RAM?