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“I stored a website in a favicon”
Every website has a favicon. It's that little icon in your browser tab. Usually you upload it once and then never think about it again. But. A favicon is just an image. An image is just pixels. And pixels are just bytes.
So of course I wondered if I could store something inside one.
↫ Tim Wehrle
I love it when people do something useless just for fun.
https://www.osnews.com/story/145350/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/#Internet
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2026-06-21 18:58:59 UTCEvent JSON
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