Aight, #askFedi and #AskFediAfterDark

I've a #historical #internetCulture ask. I'm searching for an image from early naughts (pre-#XP era) where sunflowers were pictured but when selected (with Ctrl+A on windows), it showed girl with naked breasts. First encounter with #steganography. #internetArcheology

Anyone remembers?

I'm finally cataloguing my old #RPGComic collection (Knights of the Dinner Table, Dork Tower, Nodwick) and it's fun about whom you stumble in the side material (Phil Masters, Scott Kurtz, Philip Reed and S. John Ross for example).

Now a #Nodwick issue is making me wonder is me wonder: is that Adrian Czajkowski - an "up and coming new webcomic artist from the UK" - is the same as the writer Adrian Tchaikovsky of SF writing fame five years before his first published book? Probably not, but it's fun to research old vanished web stuff. I've been hitting a bit of a wall though. The only actual images of the comic "The Big Stick" I can find are from an Italian fan translation:

https://xoomer.virgilio.it/leilon/11_bigstick/list.htm

The Wayback Machine has still a listing for comics, but no actual images:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051221170407/http://www.3rdedition.org/bigstick/index.asp?BigStickID=85

I guess I'll never know. Curiosity is a fool's game. 😅​

#webcomics #internetarcheology #internetarchive