Downgrade your Internet to 8-bit We’re suckers for anything with a pixelated retro aesthetic, blame a childhood sat in front of a TV screen navigating the Mushroom Kingdom or firing hadoukens until our thumbs bled. The familiar chunky form has grown ubiquitous—as a pop cultural reference it works like the benday dots in the enlarged comics of a Roy Lichtenstein painting. And because of our nostalgic attraction and fascination with it as a primary unit of the digital aesthetic, nothing is beyond its fuzzying transformative powers, its ability to catalyze our imaginations. Art works, fictional characters, you, even modern video games (in the form of demakes) get a kind of meta-pixel makeover. And now someone has brought this chunky style to the web browser.

Downgrade your Internet to 8-bit

We’re suckers for anything with a pixelated retro aesthetic, blame a childhood sat in front of a TV screen navigating the Mushroom Kingdom or firing hadoukens until our thumbs bled. The familiar chunky form has grown ubiquitous—as a pop cultural reference it works like the benday dots in the enlarged comics of a Roy Lichtenstein painting. And because of our nostalgic attraction and fascination with it as a primary unit of the digital aesthetic, nothing is beyond its fuzzying transformative powers, its ability to catalyze our imaginations. Art works, fictional characters, you, even modern video games (in the form of demakes) get a kind of meta-pixel makeover. And now someone has brought this chunky style to the web browser.

  • February 17, 2011, 11:14am

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