I made a buddy icon

[jeffpeck]

Back the day, it was a mark of great achievement if one was able to hack into AOL Instant Messenger and change the "buddy icon" into something different from whatever the default was. I think that these icons typically resembled other buttons in the Windows 98 environment (although, being on Mac then and now, I wouldn't know

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[jaywright]

Well done. Truly artful.

I'm also mind-blown about the perfect blending of 1998 technology with a 2017 movie reference written about on a 2001 social media platform. I don't even know what to do about it.

[overand]

I was always very proud of my "Poke" buddy icon I created, and I definitely haven't thought about it in a solid 8-12 years.

Here's how much of a geek & data hoarder I am:

overand@zombie /home/overand % locate -i poke|grep -iE 'gif|bmp|png|jpg'
/mnt/data/from-oldzom/200gig/Old120/40GIG/Sucrose/GFX/POKE.GIF
/mnt/data/from-oldzom/200gig/Old120/40GIG/Sucrose/GFX/POKE2.GIF
/mnt/data/from-oldzom/200gig/Old120/40GIG/Sucrose/GFX/POKE3.GIF
/mnt/data/from-oldzom/200gig/Old120/40GIG/Sucrose/GFX/POKE4.GIF
So, I present:
POKE4.GIF

[jeffpeck]

That is impressive that the only images titled "poke" are the exact images that you were looking for it.

And neat to see the history that can be inferred from the structure. You once had everything on a 40GB drive. Then transferred it to a 120GB drive, followed by a 200GB drive, and chances are all of that is sitting a significantly larger (2TB ?) external drive. Did I get it right?

I too have older drives that have been transferred to other drives, etc. although unfortunately, there are only partial copies of things in different places and I have never taken the time to just put them all in one place and archive things properly.

Does your poke buddy icon predate facebook? Or was it a response to it?

Either way, it's great!