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The Iconfactory: Your Quality Freeware Icons Hub (news.asp)
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April, 1996 - Nov., 1997: The Iconfactory was started back in April of 1996 as a hobby between its three founding members: Corey Marion, Talos Tsui and Gedeon Maheux. At the time, all three were working for a small multi-media company called Paradigm Interactive designing educational CD-ROMs for children. Icon making was part of the job description, and each of the three members started pushing pixels on their own time for fun.
Corey, Ged and Talos all had individual webpages where people could download their icons, but it wasn't until Corey came up with the idea to create a single page where the three could consoldate their work and thereby increase hits that the first version of the factory was born. Corey came up with the name "Iconfactory" as well as the first icon of the factory itself. The original site (a single web page) was created and hosted on AOL. You can click the above image for a detail view, or click here to visit a mock-up of what the page actually looked like back then.
Dec., 1997 - April., 1998: Although still hosted on AOL, the site was expanded to include several new pages including the Showroom, a place for new icon sets, the Warehouse for older sets, a link to the new DeskStop page just launched, and a new collection of links to other icon / desktop sites. This version of the page included several small animations that disappear with the next site design. However, people enjoyed these small animations so much, that we decided to bring them back in the 4.0 Iconfactory in the form of the warehouse animations. We continue to get great feedback about these animations, they are one of the most loved portions of The Iconfactory.
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