Wait, what? I had the idea for the post title when I was still half asleep: I vaguely remembered how we used to watch an ancient, hilariously paranoid anti-marijuana movie for the lulz during our forming years at university (which was especially fun to do while pursuing the, um, recreational activity).
And, like any other
oldschool geek that was there when the world wide web took off,
I still find it amusing that the HTTP header name will forever
be named Referer: because someone misspelt it once.
So, the title is supposed to be a combination of those two things, because I was
browsing through my referer logs yesterday. Funny, eh?
Upon waking up I realized that I’m a hundred years old and it’s probably only funny to me. At least I’ve now also learned that “Reefer Madness” has been turned into a stage musical, a musical movie, and a play, and several other musicals. Groovy! Anyway…
The real madness is the feedback I received for the Amiga Pointer Archive! Everyone and their pet seemed to have something positive to say about it. Is this still the internet I know?
Jokes aside, the nice comments and posts really made me happy. Especially the manic, perfectionist little voice on my left shoulder: “Ha! I knew spending another evening with the all-merged-into-one mouse pointer was worth it, and applying a realistic ordered med-res dither in the original Workbench colors as well! Who’s complaining now that this project is getting out of hand?”
Another thing I’ve learned: There’s an immensely popular Spanish link aggregator website called menéame, and they are producing three times the referer links than the amount I saw when I was on the Hacker News front page. Estoy impresionado y agradecido!
Edit: Bonus gratefulness: The Amigans over at amigans.net actually use the “share” feature for sharing custom pointers! Cheers! And yes, it is indeed intriguing that there was no Boing ball pointer in the files I collected so far – let’s see what the next pointer database update brings!
That little side project I wrote about here and there – it’s ready! It’s the…
Amiga Pointer Archive
A gallery of all Amiga mouse pointers ever published.
Enjoy browsing Amiga mouse pointers of yore, and maybe even design the pointer of your dreams and share it. :)
I’ve got a ton of features I want to add, but for now, it’s done. At least per my definition of “I’m done with this for now” – DoIDWTTFN. :) You have to draw the line somewhere, why not at the point where you ask yourself:
- Dang! I missed assigning a category to this one! Is it “sword”, “pointy shape”, “penis”, or all of them?
- Wow, I think this is the only crosshair cursor with three lines. Or is it? Let’s check all the other eight thousand pointers real quick!
- WTF! I made this one back in 1995, ten years ago! But I was a teenage lamer, how did this ever make its way to the TOSEC archives?!
Anyway… I had a lot of fun with all the scraping, categorizing, and frontend work. So, again, enjoy those pixels!
And if you ever wanted to see what all pointer shapes combined would look like, check out the info page.
