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“I stored a website in a favicon” (opens in new tab)

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.

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