whilst on a search for historical minidisc homepages, i stumbled upon this apotheosis of #y2k #worldwideweb #design
niina's toy box is a personal homepage of pixel art dolls that can be "adopted" to your own homepage. it includes "bases" which are the bare doll bodies in poses, that you paint your own clothes on top of.
i don't know if anyone out there was into personalizing their homepages with dolls in the early #2000s but i absolutely love the concept.
niina's #homepage design hallmarks at least three 2000s design styles that were ubiquitous at the time:
- pixel-perfect pixel art with minimal anti-aliasing
- isometric (dimetric) 3D projection
- razor thin 1px stripes for backgrounds
https://web.archive.org/web/20221206150322/http://www.toybox.minidisco.org/