TL;DR
- An NFT Advent Calendar featuring collectible vintage icons
- Every day a new drop until xmas morning
- Web 1 classics seen and used by billions – yes that’s Billions with a B
- Created by Vidar “blacktar” Andersen (aka me)
- Some 20 plus years ago
- I’m the only one who can legally sell these & give you authentic ownership
- Auction running on OpenSea until Xmas morning – it’s the season!
- Stay tuned for surprise giveaways in between
- More information below
Pay peanuts, get monkeys they say. Well, these are not the apes you’re looking for. In fact, these are the iconic Web1 vintage pixels exactly nobody was looking for - until now.
NFTs at this stage of maturity are mostly the equivalent of factory prints on pre-signed blank Salvador Dali sheets; Sweat-shopped assets ground out by anonymous hired hands, mass-produced by - and artificially inflated to fill the coffers of - the industrial crypto overbros.
This, on the other hand, is the real-Susan-Kare-like deal; It is now possible to own a true artisanal vintage artefact - a literal icon of Web 1, a perfect preserve of the zeitgeist of an era set for all posterity in pixels, offered directly to you to own for yourself - from the artist himself, complete with the well-travelled essence, the patina, the pedigree - that no boilerplate apes, stonks memes, or 3D amateur fests will ever appreciate to.
Here is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique piece of Internet history, crafted by hand, pixel by pixel, just as the sun was setting on the wild wild west, at the very moment the frontier period of the Internet was coming to an end and the heydays of Web 1 as it were to be know would be gone forever.
These classic icons serve as a unique vehicle, an instant connection, to a bygone era where success on the Internet was still measured in Super Bowl ad spend, and amount of Miller Aeron Chairs and Spark Stations amassed.
The limited Vintage Pixels collection features three vintage icons up for auction today, representing the most infamous three out of a set of over 40.
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