a stamp collection (I'm proud)

In most cases, you don’t want to just download images from someone else’s site and use them, of course. That said, online graphics do get traded in a variety of forms - plenty are made just for sharing, collecting, and displaying between website creators.

You can see some of the (more typical) 88 pixel wide by 31 pixel tall graphics used as identifiers of particular sites and causes here. Those are often called buttons on the small web because they usually link to a site or page. Other graphics include stamps, though, the subject of this page.

Stamps are 99 pixels wide and 56 pixels tall. I wasn’t much of a collector of these before neocities came around, but they’ve been with the web for decades. They were popularized by Deviantart and related sites, and plenty can be found simply by searching for “Deviantart Stamps.” There are caches of them hoarded on Tumblr and other sites, too. Some are animated and flashy, some simple, all pretty interesting to uncover!

I began collecting these “Deviantart”-style stamps early last year, and now, I’ve got over a hundred and fifty of them. You can see a neat procession of them in the sidebar, using a marquess format that was exceedingly hard to pull off, really. I wanted, though, to create a page just for the stamps to be displayed as themselves, rather than in the little marquee. So, here it is.

I may or may not manage to organize these a bit, and if so, I might perhaps theme or color-code them. For now, they are a dump of images. Yes, many do move, but most are quite subtle. Unlike the marquee, this page does not shuffle when you reload. Feel free to download these, given that they came from very, very old sites that either were operating under a "share alike" policy or simply seem to have no discernable authorship right now. If these are yours and you'd rather they not be shared here, contact me.