So, I got distracted deep diving on the Wayback Machine for old assets and pages from Emerald Guardian, I got a good chuck of assets then I went looking for "new" abandoned stuff to preserve here. I've linked back all my sources. If it's a passable idea to continue doing that, I will. :)
There's 'sites that still have AOL instant messenger icons ONLINE?! I'm...... surprised?
I love that time of the web where graphic design was special when you found it? Because there were Geocities sites where people would use MS Paint because that's all they had or knew of..... don't get me wrong, that has it's own charm too. Having photoshop was probably one of the best feelings ever........... now —
— graphic design programs are so common and there's free ones out there! But I love when people made their graphic design was more detailed and even over-exaggerated around this time........ I'm glad you're keeping that alive :)
Ikr?! I was quite surprised myself to find an AIM icon site active. I still use MS Paint for a majority of what I do (Pixel art) and GIMP for the rest. But back in 2005 I did love seeing anime layouts with minimized style and fancy fonts. It was like they were everywhere and now I can't find a single one with similar style. A lot of stuff from the "old web" I loved seems to be lost in the void and that's a big part -
- of why I'm gonna trying preserve what I find. I'm a web 2.0 Indiana Jones!....for Knuckles I guess lol. Also the early Geocities site era was fun too. Really basic stuff, links and images everywhere on the page. Lots of GIFs. Every Sonic OC were just recolors not even an edit at that point. It's cute to see how that has evolved.
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So, I got distracted deep diving on the Wayback Machine for old assets and pages from Emerald Guardian, I got a good chuck of assets then I went looking for "new" abandoned stuff to preserve here. I've linked back all my sources. If it's a passable idea to continue doing that, I will. :)
There's 'sites that still have AOL instant messenger icons ONLINE?! I'm...... surprised? I love that time of the web where graphic design was special when you found it? Because there were Geocities sites where people would use MS Paint because that's all they had or knew of..... don't get me wrong, that has it's own charm too. Having photoshop was probably one of the best feelings ever........... now —
— graphic design programs are so common and there's free ones out there! But I love when people made their graphic design was more detailed and even over-exaggerated around this time........ I'm glad you're keeping that alive :)
Ikr?! I was quite surprised myself to find an AIM icon site active. I still use MS Paint for a majority of what I do (Pixel art) and GIMP for the rest. But back in 2005 I did love seeing anime layouts with minimized style and fancy fonts. It was like they were everywhere and now I can't find a single one with similar style. A lot of stuff from the "old web" I loved seems to be lost in the void and that's a big part -
- of why I'm gonna trying preserve what I find. I'm a web 2.0 Indiana Jones!....for Knuckles I guess lol. Also the early Geocities site era was fun too. Really basic stuff, links and images everywhere on the page. Lots of GIFs. Every Sonic OC were just recolors not even an edit at that point. It's cute to see how that has evolved.
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