Today is National Comic Book Day. In the US, the Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837) is acknowledged as the first comic book, though there is a competing claim from Scotland’s Glasgow Looking Glass (1825). I’m not an expert, but the Glasgow Looking Glass seems more of a single-panel form, while Obadiah Oldbuck is genuine sequential art, but we’ll leave it to academics to debate.
Meanwhile, why not have some fun with LowEndLOLs, the only comic strip devoted to the hosting industry? In fact, to celebrate today we’ve created an NFT for our new comic:
And we have lots more comics!
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Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
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