the great old ones

[ironymaiden]

inspired by the comments in this post about DW today vs LJ 15 years ago:

I'm posting with my oldest (first, and still default) icon. I made it in 2003 from artwork by Alphonse Mucha.

Please comment with your oldest icon!

Comments

[dorchadas]

I'm pretty sure this is my oldest surviving icon. I'm not sure what preceded it.

The linked post reminds me of the way any sort of popular culture is fragmented now. There's just so much out there that there isn't really a sense of modern canon anymore, or at least, very few things are there. Even in relative niches, like my own love of slice-of-life anime, I meet people with the same interest and we have no overlap in the shows we've seen. Genres silo off from each other, and no single show pulls numbers anywhere close to what it would have twenty years ago.

[ironymaiden]

so true. i remember when it was possible and even kind of reasonable to keep up with every even vaguely science fictional show on television. and now? impossible.

[cupcake_goth]

Of the ones I migrated over here from LJ? Ta-da, vampire.

[flexagon]

My very first was a close-up of the "Hypnotica" contact lens from Wild Eyes, visible here:

http://resonancesocialmedia.com/wild-eyes-contacts/halloween-wild-eyes-contacts/

I haven't used it as an icon for many years now.

[jazzfish]

Still my default, cropped from an image I found on Howie Green's website eighteen years ago.

...gosh. My Livejournal can /vote/.

[naye]

This one has been my default for as long as I can remember. <3

[sophus]

If it's a question of which icon is the oldest one I've used, it's this one. But, that's a boring answer-- I managed to lurk for fifteen plus years before actually getting an identity, so this icon isn't even a toddler yet.

However, if I haul out the oldest icons I ever made, we can get something more entertaining:
    
Behold, the icons I lovingly crafted with my middle school friends. Egads.
(Both of these files had the same modification date modulo a couple seconds, so I'm not sure which is the true first.)

Narrowly missing the cut by a few hours were several icons worth of cropped Seto/Joey fanart emblazoned with low-contrast text stating, "puppyshipping".

[sistawendy]

This one is among the oldest I have, but I'm not sure it's the oldest. I do know, however, that my oldest icons aren't photos of me. I was afraid to post those at first.

[flamingsword]

Hey! Remember H/D? This was my Drarry icon, back in the day.

[solarbird]

hiya!