{"id":4278,"date":"2004-09-14T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2004-09-14T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T13:02:27","slug":"ostan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"OS-tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen over on <a href=\"http:\/\/napps.nwfusion.com\/compendium\/archive\/006243.html\">Compendium<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">MetaFilter<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS-tan#The_OS_girls\">the OS gals<\/a>. Of course, my favorite is the Mac OS X Gal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nA small <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_phenomenon\">internet phenomenon<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Futaba_Channel\">Futaba Channel<\/a>, the OS-tan (OS for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_System\">Operating System<\/a>, and -tan as an overly cute Japanese honorific for a person, specifically a child slurring &#8220;-chan&#8221;) or simply OS Girls are the personification of several OSes, most famously <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Windows\">Windows<\/a>, by various amateur Japanese artists. A pure fan creation, the appearance of each character is generally consistent among artists. OSes are almost always portrayed as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woman\">women<\/a>, the Windows girls usually as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sister\">sisters<\/a>, despite sometimes seeming the same age. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-legacy\/images\/2004\/09\/MACOSX2-Girl.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"The MacOS X Girl\" title=\"The MacOS X Girl\" class=\"imageright\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_OS_X\">Mac OS X<\/a> girl is often portrayed as cat-eared, in following with the Apple &#8220;wild cat&#8221; naming tradition (every MacOS X release has a codename like &#8220;Jaguar&#8221;, &#8220;Panther&#8221; and so on). Otherwise, she is shown as an older variation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_OS_9\">Mac OS 9<\/a> girl, wearing a platinum white coat and a wireless AirPort device fashioned as a hat. She is occasionally shown holding a newspaper or yearbook, as many high school newspapers and yearbooks use Mac OS X. [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS-tan#The_OS_girls\">Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Too cute (or dare I say&#8230;. KAWAII!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small internet phenomenon on Futaba Channel, the OS-tan (OS for Operating System, and -tan as an overly cute Japanese honorific for a person, specifically a child slurring &#8220;-chan&#8221;) or simply OS Girls are the personification of several OSes, most famously Windows, by various amateur Japanese artists.  A pure fan creation, the appearance of each character is generally consistent among artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}