Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

(danq.me)

108 points | by birdculture 3 days ago

6 comments

  • moebrowne 6 hours ago
    TIL server side image maps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl...

    Supported since forever.

    • burnte 3 hours ago
      Wow, I remember when server side image maps were the only kind of image map!
    • dieselgate 3 hours ago
      Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.
  • varenc 1 hour ago
    fun fact: source maps are used by some Tor onion sites ("dark net") as part of a captcha process without using JavaScript. If you present the user with an image, and ask them to click on a particular part of it, the server can recieve exactly where they clicked and validate if that's correct without using JS at all. (JS is a big no-no on Tor hidden network sites)
  • pizzaiolo 3 hours ago
    When I was a kid I had a Geocities-style website hosted on hpg.com.br which was wholly composed of animated GIFs, mostly Pokemon-related.

    Very unfortunate that archive.org doesn't have a copy of it.

  • alexpotato 54 minutes ago
    I will occasionally mentor folks of varying ages.

    They usually end up talking to me because some project or career path they were on didn't work out how they were expecting.

    I mention this b/c at some point I ask them: "Hey, do you have a blog post or website about this failed project?"

    They usually say "yes, but who would want to hear about this??"

    Me: "You would be ASTOUNDED at what people find interesting. Success or failure, there is always something to be learned from someone else trying to solve a problem."

    Hopefully, we see more of these writeups as they are VERY inspirational (successful stories like this one or not)

  • p1mrx 6 hours ago
    https://ibiblio-icon-archive.danq.dev/icons/1.html

    It'd be nice to have some way to browse the pages without constantly hunting for the Next button.

  • justsomehnguy 3 days ago
    • petee 7 hours ago
      I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits