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whiteball.gif
whiteball.gif

I believe this is the earliest surviving digital image from the earliest incarnations of rox.com. It's got a creation date of March 6, 1995, over a month before the official launch of the site. (In fact, this is the oldest personal file I can find on my hard drive.) Probably intended for use as bullet points, there were a total of seven little ball images in a directory titled, appropriately enough, "Balls." Each ball was a different color, but whiteball.gif was first. I suspect they were snagged off some other website rather than crafted by our crew but who knows? What's weird about this one is that it has some glitch smears. It looks like a spot of schmutz rather than a pristine cyber graphic. Somehow that seems poetic and in keeping with our vision for rox.com: a splotch of bird poop on the windshield of a car on the information superhighway.

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Taken on: March 6, 1995
Tags: Everybody's photos tagged with ROX ROX
Sets appears in:   • Excavations from the Quarry   
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