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Precursors

FAN

OS-tan has parents. They are usually omitted from English listicles because they were magazine mascots and wallpaper girls, not a 2003 imageboard swarm. They matter so that 2003 does not look like a virgin birth.

Win-chan

OSC calls the OS-idol Win-chan the most notable computer personification before OS-tan: mascot of TECH Win magazine, 1998, representing Windows as a whole rather than a version. She is a magazine character. She is sometimes drawn next to later OS-tans in fan work. That does not make her Me-tan's older sister in canon.

Toy's iMac Girl

Satoshi Igarashi (Toy) published iMac-inspired digital illustrations beginning 28 August 1998 (Bondi Blue Babe / TOYBOX#20) with candy-colored variations through March 1999. OSC and the old Manga Wiki both flag this series as a predecessor. It is Apple hardware as a pin-up, not a Futaba OS family.

Princess of BSD

OSC also names Magical Toko-chan / Princess of BSD as an early net mascot for BSD distributions, plus older 1980s microcomputer personifications. Those sit in the same Japanese habit of giving machines a girl. They are not this wiki's main tree.

See also

Early OS-tan pairHistory of OS-tanFrom Me-tan on Futaba in August 2003 through Trouble Windows, English spread, DSP Madobe campaigns, and the 2020s Futaba girls.XP-tan and Me-tanOS-tanOS-tans are moe personifications of operating systems that started on Futaba Channel in 2003. Fan canon is not the later Microsoft mascot campaigns.Mac-tanMac-tanMac-tan is at least two casts: Futaba's generic Mac rival of 95-tan, and +Nijiura+'s OS X catgirls named after big cats.

Sources

  1. Introduction — OS-Tan Collections Wiki, 2010. English community wiki. Pages often carry outdated-information banners. Character art stays with creators.