Limited Edition Anniversary Gear: The First Techdirt Logo!

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from the the-old-look dept

Wed, Aug 23rd 2017 1:30pm — Leigh Beadon

The current Techdirt logo has remained the same for quite some time, but extra-long-time readers might remember that there have actually been two other logos before this one. The very first one was created by Techdirt friend Audris and used until early 1999, and all that remains of it today is one small old JPEG with a lot of compression artifacts:

Today, in celebration of Techdirt's 20th anniversary, we've done our best to reproduce the original logo (with a few minor tweaks) and now we're offering it up on limited edition t-shirts, hoodies and stickers from Teespring:

This special anniversary gear is only available until Sunday, September 3rd — so order yours today! And check out our store on Teespring for more Techdirt gear.

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Anonymous Coward, 23 Aug 2017 @ 1:47pm

So what was the other logo?
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- Anonymous Coward, 23 Aug 2017 @ 3:54pm
  
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  https://web.archive.org/web/20051121172403im_/http://www.techdirt.com/images/tdlogo.gif
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  - Trails (profile), 23 Aug 2017 @ 7:35pm
    
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    It's the very best Corel Paint had to offer
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    - audris, 24 Aug 2017 @ 9:35am
      
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      actually, it was just MS Paint.
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Aug 2017 @ 3:02pm

Glad you retired the tech-shart logo! That thing's terrible.
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Anonymous Coward, 24 Aug 2017 @ 12:38pm

That thing is (literally) dripping with 90's internet. It's terrible, I love it. Please tell me TD was hosted on GeoCities at some point.
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- Anonymous Coward, 26 Aug 2017 @ 8:44pm
  
  Re:
  Who is sitting on all the geocities old websites that so many entrepreneurs tirelessly wrote being self taught html groupies?
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  - Anonymous Coward, 26 Aug 2017 @ 8:50pm
    
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    Those were the days before the government, corporations and lawyers had a clue as to what a hayday they would soon declare harvesting citizens' personal data and plundering lives and accounts!!
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