Way back when forums were a thing and all the kids had obnoxious photoshop "signatures" with their favorite anime characters and video games, I made a dynamic forum signature image that let people type messages.
I used to use variations of that "interactive" signature theme. Random redirects that showed different anime images. IP addresses. (Which was later a service that someone built and provided to everyone.)
I remember using this on Warp Pipe, the GameCube online tunnelling software forums.
I then made a Nintendo DS match making service for friend codes and advertised it on Mario Kart DS by setting it as my username (I chose the domain "DSmeet.com" to be juuust short enough to fit), then raced backwards the entire game so people would see me. (And it worked!)
Ahhh, I used to love those signatures! I remember when everyone used to post their computer specs on their signatures. And I loved your DSmeet project! Did you happen to get into any of the communities that popped up for Animal Crossing New Horizons? They brought me back to the olden days of finding a community on a forum and making friends that way.
I used to use variations of that "interactive" signature theme. Random redirects that showed different anime images. IP addresses. (Which was later a service that someone built and provided to everyone.)
I remember using this on Warp Pipe, the GameCube online tunnelling software forums.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041231055055/http://www.warppi...
https://web.archive.org/web/20060204011647/http://forums.war...
Remember these things?
I then made a Nintendo DS match making service for friend codes and advertised it on Mario Kart DS by setting it as my username (I chose the domain "DSmeet.com" to be juuust short enough to fit), then raced backwards the entire game so people would see me. (And it worked!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060208013613/http://dsmeet.com...
https://web.archive.org/web/20060216171807/http://dsmeet.com...
I was so happy with myself because I wrote the forum software by hand. (Of course I had to do everything hard-mode back then...)
Here are some examples of the "signatures" I'm talking about, if you've never seen one before:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060418010950/http://dsmeet.com...
https://web.archive.org/web/20060429153550/http://dsmeet.com...
Those were some fun times...
Really neat interactive project. You sent me on a trip down memory lane. :)