@vga256 this is amazing ❤️

@vga256 That’s very sad. I had these icons back in the day. They really were good.

@vga256 A sad story. It's a shame how ephemeral people's website's are, but then I suppose that's the nature of life. Great work giving this one some more time online.

@vga256 oh man, I remember those! There was a site called Iconfactory that regularly featured classic Mac icons and icon artists

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I read the entire thing. ❤️❤️‍🩹

@vga256 thanks for digging out and preserving her site. Sad story :(

@vga256 bookmarked for later. Thank you.

@vga256 Thank you for sharing. And thank you for being you.

@vga256 beautiful story - thanks for putting in the time

@vga256 Lurleen Lumpkin had an episode all her own where Homer was her manager. She appeared as a washed up former star in a later episode where she delivered what was likely her best line; "I spent last night in a ditch."

@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.

@vga256 The obit has the awful detail that the mom still lived but both brothers had already passed. How sad for the mom.

@vga256 that's a sad story, but thank you for taking the time to write it up! It frustrates me that companies like Google are all too happy to destroy internet history. I've tried recently to go back and find old sites I had in the 90s and 2000s, and there's a lot that's missing on The Internet Archive, unfortunately. I wish I kept better backups.

@vga256 the litigious aspect of companies is atrocious. I understand that some copyright protections need to be in place, but this was such a small thing, and with no $ earned from it, why bother?

As an artist myself, if my original work was unaltered and someone claimed it was their's, I'd be pissed. But if they used a piece of it, or were inspired by it, and properly credited it to me, then I'm okay with it, provided an agreement is signed.

Big corps kill small artists, and kill creativity.

@vga256 there's something really bleak about that obituary. It talks about her time in school - what about her life after that?!

@vga256 are they the same ones as those on my GlobalTalk share in the WOzFest HQ server?

@vga256 Thanks for sharing!

@vga256 your website doesn't play nice on dark mode (because the text is white on a white background)

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Awww, Jeanette! Thanks for sharing this.
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@vga256 good share and thank you for what you do. Preserving that old school Internet is important. Very sad that she passed away so young and before her mother. I wonder what it could have been from?

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"It's been many years since I've heard from anyone
concerning my icons. Will you be the first to renew contact?" 😭

@vga256 ah! I remember everyone having those on their early Macs around the office. Must've been like OS 7-ish?

@vga256 Man, what a story. Jeanette seems rad.

@vga256 Sad story, well written though. Definitely hits close to home. Glad you were able to archive as much as you could of her website.

@vga256 this is amazing! thanks for sharing it with us and going all the way to find her story, blog and links, really touching.

I wasnt able to open them, but anyways, it makes me think about the old internet days, how different is from today and also, nowdays there's a lot of people profiting from the simpsons, selling merch and fan art stuff and fox now disney is chill about it, really makes you think how unfair that letter was

@vga256 this is beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us

@vga256 Thank you for your efforts. They are absolutely important and worth it!

@vga256 oh damn I want these as emojos! @dantescanline we need the chief wiggums

@vga256 Finally got around to reading this. As a 47 year old guy in a not too different situation, this really spooked the hell out of me. 😨

Thank you for writing that up and preserving her memory! I never knew her name, but I never forgot what Fox did. They did her dirty and, after all these years, it's remained at the forefront of my mind whenever a corporation oversteps and attacks a fan for artistically expressing their appreciation.

@vga256 Sigh! That is very sad. But well done on bringing her memory alive. A wonderful thing. #memories

@vga256 I have a lot of feels rn

@vga256 Thanks for doing this. You made the world a little bit better.

@vga256 crikey. Thank you

@vga256 Does anyone already got those into their :fediverse: server as custom emojis? :blobcatcookienom: