An archivist needed a few authentic AIM icons for a game, and stopped at 514,752. Each 50-pixel square is preserved as its original file, with known duplicates grouped and its source recorded — old directories, fan sites, downloadable packs, web archives. Hit Shuffle Wall and a decade of moods scrolls past: lava lamps, four-leaf clovers, a very smug penguin.
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