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		Ask HN: Where do avatars like this come from? (githubusercontent.com)
		1 point by giulianopz 10 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

giulianopz 10 months ago [–]

I see avatars like this one very often on GitHub but I really don't know where they come from. It seems a corner of the internet culture totally unknown to me, probably dating back to the previous generation of programmers (early 2000s).

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