🛠️ 500,000+ AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icons All at Once
Summary
This project is a searchable and downloadable archive containing over 500,000 AOL Instant Messenger buddy icons scraped from the internet. The creator aims to collect a comprehensive database of all historical buddy icons and welcomes contributions or file trades from past archive owners.
Why it’s interesting
It preserves over half a million nostalgic internet artifacts from the AOL Instant Messenger era on a single browseable site.
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Summary
This project is a searchable and downloadable archive containing over 500,000 AOL Instant Messenger buddy icons scraped from the internet. The creator aims to collect a comprehensive database of all historical buddy icons and welcomes contributions or file trades from past archive owners.
Why it’s interesting
It preserves over half a million nostalgic internet artifacts from the AOL Instant Messenger era on a single browseable site.
Source metrics: Points 3 · Comments 0
HN discussion · Project
Source: #HackerNews / Show HN