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16 February 2008

The Faces of MetaChat →[More:] Remember the bunny that used to be the background? Was there one (or am I hallucinating)? Remember Bunnyhead? I grow nostalgic for them. If anyone has any screen shots of the way we used to be, please post them. Thank you.

post by: Doohickie at: 22:46 | 18 comments

Bunnyhead pops up here occasionally. Seasonal, I think. And there wasn't ever a bunny in the background. I think, at least.

posted by puke & cry 16 February | 22:50

There was a bunny with carrots in the background, when I first got here.

posted by BoringPostcards 16 February | 22:53

I was going to look up the old layout on archive.org but all the links are formatted. And some of them sent me to some IRC channel for some reason.

posted by puke & cry 16 February | 22:54

unformatted.

posted by puke & cry 16 February | 22:54

Yeah, there was a large soft photo of a bunny in the lower right corner, and thread pages had a carrot in the same place.

posted by iconomy 16 February | 22:55

Man, that's weird, I don't remember that at all. I guess I drank those braincells away or something.

posted by puke & cry 16 February | 22:56

Yes the background was a big bunny at one time. I really was not fond of it.

posted by arse_hat 16 February | 23:17

Was that before the gradient background?

posted by puke & cry 16 February | 23:24

I forget just when, but it was the early days. When taz gets up I'm sure she can say.

posted by arse_hat 16 February | 23:34

I don't remember that. Maybe I hadn't signed up yet?

posted by SassHat 17 February | 00:23

There were all those things, carrots in thread a bunnyhead and a gradient. I think they lost out for being "distracting" (the background images that is) so the design got streamlined and arty-bunny-head-man came along.

posted by dabitch 17 February | 04:03

I really fancy the changing pictues, especially when a shot has some of the Mecha colors in it like this current one by iconomy:
≡ Click to see image ≡

Not so sure about black frames though.
Anyway, I think more of that would be cool!

posted by dabitch 17 February | 04:07

Here's the original Bunnyhead.

There was a giant bunny in the bottom corner for the first six months or so, but the Internet Archive doesn't have it.

posted by cillit bang 17 February | 04:28

I'll have to crank up my old computer and look in my archives to see if I can find the oldest background art, which was, indeed, the big bunny at the bottom of the screen.

posted by taz 17 February | 07:25

I miss the bunny.

posted by bunnyfire 17 February | 08:16

uh, I didn't mean the black frames around iconomy's pic are bad, they're very cute for that photo I Meant as a design element on the page with pictures, like here... Either all pics should have them or none, kind of deal.. Just being art directory. Ha!

posted by dabitch 17 February | 12:36

Doohickie, I have a jpeg of the first four or so incarnations of ZombieBunny (original plus holidays), if you want him. Maybe e-mail me so I don't forget? I'm heading out of the house soon today.

posted by shane 17 February | 12:49

wiki?

posted by Eideteker 19 February | 14:19

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