before runescape and myspace, aol instant messenger (aim) was really formative for me as a kid, spending time online with friends.
there were three things you could use to express yourself on aim:
- a screenname - a profile (it usually had song lyrics in it, or inside jokes, or a "<3 [your middleschool girlfriend/boyfriend's name] - a buddy icon
so, for this work, it's 100 randomly selected buddy icons grouped in a 10x10 matrix, pulled from 'badassbuddy.com', from mid-2002.
i accomplished this by using the wayback machine (since badassbuddy.com is no longer online) and a python scraper using selenium.
i think this is cool because buddy icons influenced online culture a lot. and looking at a tapestry of them transports you back to 2002 because you can really feel where we were culturally and mentally as online people back then.
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there were three things you could use to express yourself on aim:
- a screenname
- a profile (it usually had song lyrics in it, or inside jokes, or a "<3 [your middleschool girlfriend/boyfriend's name]
- a buddy icon
so, for this work, it's 100 randomly selected buddy icons grouped in a 10x10 matrix, pulled from 'badassbuddy.com', from mid-2002.
i accomplished this by using the wayback machine (since badassbuddy.com is no longer online) and a python scraper using selenium.
i think this is cool because buddy icons influenced online culture a lot. and looking at a tapestry of them transports you back to 2002 because you can really feel where we were culturally and mentally as online people back then.
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