The First IconPackages

Back in the day...

Published on April 30, 2008 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

The year is 1999, IconPackager brings simple icon switching to Windows and the world erupts in joyous cheers! Well, maybe not. But artists did set to work on creating new custom icon sets to save everyone from the horror of the default windows icons.

Here are just a handful of the very first IconPackager sets uploaded to WinCustomize.


Dark Mel Broyce	Cyber RS Martin Eriksson	Suzi Wong Albie Wong	Kid OS Gedeon Maheux

Heavy Mel Broyce	Vaio Masatoshi Ueji	iMac Masatoshi Ueji	Odd Copland

Wow the previews were tiny back then.

Comments

ZubaZ

on Apr 30, 2008

How big could an icon be back then?

I don't recognize any of those names. I wonder if any are still skinning?

Hankers

on Apr 30, 2008

Good stuff Zoomba. Interesting to see original submissions and how icons have progressed since then.

Frogboy

on Apr 30, 2008

Copland was pretty famous in the day.

pjdark

on Apr 30, 2008

oldschool!

wulfn1

on Apr 30, 2008

see? I told you digging was fun!!!

c242

on May 01, 2008

Yes, Copland and D.O.T. and other Japanese Icon Artists were pretty big those time. Both quit icon making.

I think many of those old icons were done pixel by pixel.

Jafo

on May 01, 2008

Copland was pretty famous in the day.

Yep....one I definitely remember....

Fuzzy Logic

on May 01, 2008

I remember for quite a while there were no packages with large icons, just poxy diddy ones. Ah, the good old days...

Cerebus1970

on May 01, 2008

Masatoshi Ueji was really good icon creator,i have used a few of his themes. his website was called M's Factory.

freezejeans

on May 01, 2008

Copland & M's Factory...wow, what great memories! I love articles like this, keep 'em coming, please

MarkMcQ

on May 01, 2008

Icons have come a long way. Most of those were ported from the Mac sets. Nowadays people are turning out amazing stuff.

DArnaez

on May 02, 2008

Copland was pretty famous in the day.

Yeah!!! I remember the first time that I found this website... I spend hours, days, downloading iconpacks. I never thought that I would be capable of to make my own iconthemes...

Just on 2004 I began to turn a little bit the concept of iconography with this 3D wave. I need to thanks to all that people that encourage me to do it. Cheers!

Mackintosh

on May 02, 2008

I remember that iMac package, used it for a long time. Copland's were awesome too. Brings back memories, doesn't it?

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