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.

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Show threadArneBabMar 14, 2024

@vga256 that’s sad and sweet and horrible at the same time.

And it’s pages like this one I miss — though that it still said „tired of being alone“ when she died may show that our pages of old often did not work as people needed. Which may be why social media captures so many more people.

Show threadvga256Mar 14, 2024
@ArneBab that's a good point. at the same time i have never seen any social media post quite as intimate as her homepage. i really get the feeling that i'm seeing her for who she is, rather than who she wants to be seen as. that's what i miss about homepages.
Show threadArneBabMar 14, 2024

@vga256 I fully agree. I much prefer those homepages over social media posts.

I just have the feeling that the homepages didn’t quite accomplish the connecting.

(I also prefer writing on my own website, though, and it’s a static page with stuff that matters to me, so I’m biased ☺: https://www.draketo.de )

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Show threadvga256Mar 14, 2024
@ArneBab will be happy to link out to your homepage from mine. great site, and I appreciate the bilingual text!
Show threadArneBab

@vga256 gladly!

Though bilingual parts are less structured than before. On old websites I had actual parts split by language. Now I mostly have some articles in German, some in English, and I collect the most important ones in sections by language. That means that it is necessary for readers to ignore the parts in languages they don’t understand.

Also I have to start creating link-lists of other pages again. Currently all I have is “important articles elsewhere” and lists of links per topic.

Mar 14, 2024 at 4:06pmWeb
Show threadvga256Mar 14, 2024
@ArneBab sounds perfect to me. any amount of translation is very much appreciated - autotranslate in Safari produces some rather ah “poetic” english from german