![A pixelated image of a person with brown hair smiling, overlaid with green text reading 'i LOVE RYAN =]' across three sections.](/image/5753c55c573d8a444a9a385fbad0acec2f44c689e7d814b1ccf67bac503a3565){kind=small}
![Blue background with black pixelated text reading 'alex i love you! be happy single=]' and a pink heart symbol above the name.](/image/57676ff245b6fe7e120fec9780b9feb1d8dd3c1d28d8dccc3a60c918ecd41133){kind=small}
![Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair and dark eyes, wearing a blue top, overlaid with white text reading 'meg is my bff :]' in lowercase letters.](/image/581c0c3443d06cd0d4ce17c2fdee1b9ea3d50647484668bf953fba66fd143c9e){kind=small}
![Pink background with cyan text "I lovee youu ;]" repeated across the image and light green triangles containing pink hearts.](/image/5835fc786f836da1814e6cfb1cd909a9616af4056646f70987cce0a7b72683db){kind=small}
![A pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a red and white checkered shirt, overlaid with purple text reading "Danny my little hottie :]".](/image/589df64a24d32a3bac58a629f4da855ed13d98227819575605e6ed6c9f8ef092){kind=small}
Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
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Browse 13,303 preserved Affectionate AIM buddy icons gathered from 333 source collections. This automatically maintained collection currently includes 12,095 animated icons and 13,303 icons with searchable visual descriptions.
A language of tiny pictures
A picture barely 50 pixels wide, sitting beside an AIM screen name, could announce a mood, a fandom, an inside joke, or who someone wanted to be that day.
Read the short historyRecovered from the early web
Buddy icons survive in old directories, fan sites, downloadable packs, and web archives. The archive preserves the original files, groups known copies, and records where each one was found.
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