vga256Mar 14, 2024

little story for tonight.

while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)

They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.

i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?

what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.

read the rest of this diary entry here: https://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/diary.htm

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Show thread90s Script KiddieMar 14, 2024
@vga256 Reading her interests on her "are you my dude" page, I'm like, damn girl, I woulda had lively conversations long into the night with you! 53 is so young to have passed. I never knew her but this webpage offers a glimpse of her sense of humor and joie de vivre and I think the world is poorer without her in it. I even went and read her blog. There's something sad about these digital remmants of people that pass. So many are on cloud services that you know will wipe them eventually. They, like all of us, are on borrowed time, so intentional preservation like yours feels like a small but significant middle finger to entropy, loss, and grief. She was here, she was real, and as long as your server and my memories persist, she'll stay that way a bit longer.
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@90sScriptKiddiw she sure seemed like a very special person, just judging by what and how she wrote. i really regret that i only learned of her this week - she seems like the kind of person that would have made a great friend 🙏
Mar 14, 2024 at 4:35amWeb