Rescuing 7,234 Old GIFs from a 90s Server-Side Imagemap Challenge

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

I teamed up with GlitchyZorua to archive the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a 1990s collection by Gioacchino La Vecchia that was nearly lost. The site used tricky server-side imagemaps that made downloading icons impossible without manually clicking thousands of times. By reverse-engineering the coordinate system, I wrote a script to fetch every file and built a modern static site with search functionality, ensuring this digital history is preserved for posterity.

"I sincerely hope that La Vecchia had some automated process that he used to produce the thousands of lines of configuration that he needed, and he didn’t write his files by hand!"