About the icons
I use icons that recall the Win XP era, when home users finally got an NT-based Windows version that made both work and gaming more stable than ever before. The overall design was also inspired from Windows 2003 Server Edition. I worked a lot with it.
- How I dash: Character map from Windows XP.
- Wander Navigator: Netscape Navigator.
- I dream of...: Favorites icon from Win XP.
- Intersecting interests: Wordpad icon from Windows Vista.
- Alng the Edge: official icon of the video game.
- My Oldest things: Icon of syncapp.exe from Win XP.
- My Phone: Old smart device icon from shell32.dll of Win XP.
- Maximize, restore and close icons, light/dark mode icon: Icons from the Material Design Icons set by the Pictogrammers team.
- Road 96: The offical icon of the game.
- Snowfall: Desktop icon of Ski Region Simulator from 2013.
- Refactoring: Yeelight GUI: An official XP icon, bu I have no idea what it was used for.
- Gaming Backlog (menu item): Floppy box icon from the once-famous disk catalogue app "Where Is It?".
- Gaming Backlog (post): 5.25" floppy drive icon from Win 95 Plus.
- Clean Patching: PyWin32 logo from the early WinXP era.
- Company culture: The icon of Office Communicator. It was a variant of the MSN messenger I loved so much.
- KDE Neon: KDE's official icon.
- About Gridranger: An icon drawn by me.
- Space Colony: The game's official desktop icon.
- Friendships in my life: People icon from Windows XP.
- Jousting in video games: Icon of Mount & Blade: Warband.
- Helsinki Biennial: An official XP icon, bu I have no idea what it was used for.
- Data & Encryption: Security icon from XP.
- Intro through traits: Icon of the Sims 2 standalone Sim creator.
- Hospital visit: One of the remote desktop executable's icons in XP.
- Win 3.1 Nostalgia: Win 3.1 progman.exe icon. That was the shell there instead of explorer.exe in later installments.
- Poets of the Fall: Win XP audio CD icon.
- Video games that made me learn: Sims 2 University expansion icon. The post mentions Sims 3, Transport Tycoon and Civilization. The last two being DOS games have no Windows icons. Sims 3 has no learning related icon and Sims 2 icons fit better to the WinXP/2003 design anyway.
- Blaugust, Blaugust - Summary: Win XP's Wordpad icon.
- Blogger Takeout Viewer: Windows Live Writer icon.
- Treasure of the Pirate King: Windows XP's Backgammon icon.
- Chimera Squad: Windows XP's gampad settings icon.
- Family History: Of course this icon is not my family crest. It is from the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 released in 1999-2000.
- Random Facts About Me: MSN / Windows Live Messenger icon for Windows Vista.
- Degoogling: Windows XP's recycle bin icon.
- Python-related articles: The Python logo as an icon.
- Archives: This icon is borrowed from WinRar.
- Category icon: This is a folder icon from XP, but I can't remember where it was used.
- Categories icon: My Documents icon from XP.
- This post: This is the icon from IconForge, a free app I used to create and edit icons when I was a kid. A bit ugly but pretty nostalgic for me.
- RSS/ATOM feed icon: https://wmh.github.io/hunbook/tools/fatcow-icons.html
My Computer
Categories
Network neighborhood
Degoogling
My very first blog
Memories Taken by the Heat
EyeSpace
Bombanana!
Blaugust 2026
The fifth grandmother
Mobile OSes (featuring Fairphone 5)
Daily sparks - May 2026
Who knows that you blog?
How I dash
Wander Navigator
I dream of...
Intersecting interests
Along the Edge
My oldest things
My Phones
Road 96 - My Journey
Custom Font in JetBrains Terminal
Snowfall
Refactoring: Yeelight GUI
Gaming backlog
Clean patching
Company culture
Space Colony
Friendships in my life
Jousting in video games
Helsinki Biennial
Data & Encryption
Intro through traits
Hospital visit
Win 3.1 nostalgia
Poets of the Fall
Video games that made me learn
Family history
Random facts about me