Collections
Welcome to my newly made collections page! In the web 1.0 era offering people internet freebies like desktop wallpapers, screensaver and ico files were common practice. This was especially the case for companies targeting children. Recently I'm getting the hang of excavating these internet freebies. Some files like wallpapers and ico files are easier to obtain than other. Screensavers files are often .exe files which can not be handled by our modern 64bit computers. I found this handy tool though, a program called Winevdm that enables you to run and extract 16bit .exe files. So, if you're planning to do your own internet archaeology, this is a must-have tool! Download Winevdm here. Once you downloaded the program, simply drag and drop the .exe file into an application called "otvdm" and it will run the file!
I was able to get my hands on these Betty Boop .ico files and wallpaper tiles using the Winevpm program, for example. Materials are courtesy of This Betty Boop fanpage
The home video release of 101 Dalmatians came with some pretty cool digital freebies. Ico files, wallpaper tiles and even some digital trading cards!
Some more Disney ico and wallpaper tiles from Alladin: King of Thieves home video release promotional website.
Even more ico and wallpaper tiles found for Toy Story's VHS release! These ico files are really well done!
Cool graphics and ad banners I found on archived instances of cartoonnetwork.com
Some desktop background which could be downloaded as a promotion for the Stuart Little movie on the official website. Click for the full size.
Found these cute smokey the bear banners somewhere on geocities.
Imagemaps used to be so pretty. A lot of thought went into making them, like these from the Kellogs website from 1996 and 1998. I might start collecting imagemaps from now on...
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