Several horrendous 1990s buttons made in Adobe Photoshop 4 and Kai's Power Tools Plug-ins. They are a combination of terrifyingly ugly pre-rendered textures such as brains and cracked lava, with a highly contrastive Arial font on top. Your eyes begin to water the more you stare, wishing for the scent of raw onions to blunt the sulfuric sting.

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1. vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 04:55:21 JST vga256

   if you ever feel bad or unsure about your #art, take a few seconds to and stare intensely at this screenshot

   these #worldwideweb buttons were made by yours truly in 1996, for the ISP that I worked for as a sixteen-year-old.

   i had a (pirated) copy of Photoshop, and a set of Kai's Power Tools plug-ins for it. my boss asked me to spruce up our FTP's home page with some classy buttons.

   '....while suggesting the free treatment of form attributed to fauvism, this quite inappropriately.. attempts to juxtapose the cubistic styles of picasso and léger'