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square icons with red and white text on black backgrounds, displaying phrases like "I'M NOT AFRAID TO FALL" and "I'VE FALLEN MANY TIMES."

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square icons with red and white text on black backgrounds, displaying phrases like "I'M NOT AFRAID TO FALL" and "I'VE FALLEN MANY TIMES."

square icons with red and white text on black backgrounds, displaying phrases like "I'M NOT AFRAID TO FALL" and "I'VE FALLEN MANY TIMES.". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from W…

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  • I'M NOT AFRAID TO FALL
  • I'VE FALLEN MANY TIMES
  • THEY LAUGHED WHEN I FELL DOWN
  • BUT I HAVE DARED TO CLIMB
  • I KNOW I'LL FALL AGAIN

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
ge5886109da-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / g
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:40 UTC

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Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
ge5886109da-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / g
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (21 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/6479ba11f461ef0358faff377abd9afeb91589f40ab1e3afba10ebac853b7734.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
6479ba11f461ef03
SHA-256
6479ba11f461ef0358faff377abd9afeb91589f40ab1e3afba10ebac853b7734
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Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / g
Alt
ge5886109da-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:40 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/g/ge5886109da-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219193954id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/g/ge5886109da-IMBUDDY.gif

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / g
Alt
ge5886109da-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates

Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/g/ge5886109da-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219193954id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/g/ge5886109da-IMBUDDY.gif

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