Ask HN: Where do I find an archive of all those “Built With Notepad” graphics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36728118

by smslyng • 3 years ago

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I'd like to use some oldschoolcool graphics on my website, and I believe I saw a link to an archive site on here some time ago that contained 100s if not 1000s of these.

Anyone recall what I am referring to ?

smslyng• 3 years ago

Stumbled on this: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org it's not the one I am thinking of, but it has a few examples: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/web-banners-in-t... called MicroBanners .. that's what I am looking for a collection of

devinjon• 3 years ago

Gif Cities?

https://gifcities.org/?q=notepad

JNRowe• 3 years ago

Perhaps it was this¹ impressively huge archive?

The main index² on that site is such a masterpiece, I'm unsure whether it is art or satire or satirical art. Regardless, pure genius for my overloaded from all the movement eyes.

¹ https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index.html

² https://cyber.dabamos.de/

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

You mean banners? Microbanners even? Built With Notepad isn't the first example that comes to mind when thinking of those.....feel like that wasn't even a common one..... "Runs on Netscape" or "Internet Explorer 3.0" seems more familiar.

Anyways, seems some good suggestions here for where to find

Ask HN: Where do I find an archive of all those “Built With Notepad” graphics

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