[NBLUG/talk] OS Tan - Brace yourself

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Thu Dec 16 12:20:57 PST 2004


The Japanese have a unique take on things. Anime is wonderful. Girls are
pretty. I hope Bill doesn't try to sue them or something. OS Tans are
comic representations of the various computer operating systems. They are
cute, ditzy, funny, and sometimes rather adult oriented. There are
cartoons in the newspapers featuring them. In one ME Tan dreams that XP
Tan and 2000 Tan really, really need her help (as if!). There is a Linux
Tan, a Mac 10 Tan, a MS-DOS Tan........ If you've got way to much time on
your hands you too can spend it gazing at or reading about these icons of
Japanese/er American/er well you get the idea.

An archive of OS Tan Pictures and stuff (some pages down)
Original:
http://nijiura-os.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
Translated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://nijiura-os.hp.infoseek.co.jp/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dos%2Btan%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

What Wikipedia has to say about it (good summary):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan













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