So, I got distracted deep diving on the Wayback Machine for old assets and pages from Emerald Guardian, I got a good chuck of assets then I went looking for "new" abandoned stuff to preserve here. I've linked back all my sources. If it's a passable idea to continue doing that, I will. :)

There's 'sites that still have AOL instant messenger icons ONLINE?! I'm...... surprised? I love that time of the web where graphic design was special when you found it? Because there were Geocities sites where people would use MS Paint because that's all they had or knew of..... don't get me wrong, that has it's own charm too. Having photoshop was probably one of the best feelings ever........... now —

— graphic design programs are so common and there's free ones out there! But I love when people made their graphic design was more detailed and even over-exaggerated around this time........ I'm glad you're keeping that alive :)

Ikr?! I was quite surprised myself to find an AIM icon site active. I still use MS Paint for a majority of what I do (Pixel art) and GIMP for the rest. But back in 2005 I did love seeing anime layouts with minimized style and fancy fonts. It was like they were everywhere and now I can't find a single one with similar style. A lot of stuff from the "old web" I loved seems to be lost in the void and that's a big part -

- of why I'm gonna trying preserve what I find. I'm a web 2.0 Indiana Jones!....for Knuckles I guess lol. Also the early Geocities site era was fun too. Really basic stuff, links and images everywhere on the page. Lots of GIFs. Every Sonic OC were just recolors not even an edit at that point. It's cute to see how that has evolved.

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Is it okay if you send a couple hyperlinks to ones you know? I'd like to see them, I'm curious! I think it's sad that I don't see certain design that much anymore. As much as I love diving into older 'sites, I think there's really cool designs from that time. But I don't think it *doesn't* exist anymore, it's just less common....... I feel people will come back to it because design is timeless —

— [there might be a few things that aren't but....... you get what I'm saying!] And the recolored characters...... yup! Getting reminded of seeing a blue Tails, not only here but in a few different 'sites https://web.archive.org/web/20081119153052/http://www.prower.org

I'm thankful you care about things like this, I'm excited to see your collection grow over time. I want to figure out a page with .gifs 'n graphix eventually, I did have one before but....... I'm trying to figure out where I want to put it, and that it was mixed in with a few of my own gifs, and ones from Sonic games, and ones by others