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Posted by jxmorris12 6 days ago

Thnickels(thick-coins.net)
565 points | 125 comments
theden 6 days ago|
In the HTML there's a cool comment

      <!-- Hello this is Theo. Yes I know how to do web design. -->
      <!-- You have found my secret message. -->
      <!-- It is a coin emoticon picture. -->
      <!--
                     ______________
        __,.,---'''''              '''''---..._
     ,-'                                       '`-.
    |                      ONE                     |
    |                    THNICKEL                  ,
    |'-.._                                    __,,-
    |      ''`---.....______________.....---''     |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
    |                                              |
     '-.._                                   __,,-`
          ''`---.....______________.....---''
    -->
kmoser 5 days ago||
That "stretching" (!) the definition of "emoticon." I would call it ASCII art.
curveship 5 days ago|||
it's an emothickon
bigyabai 5 days ago||||
If it was emoticon-sized then you wouldn't be able to appreciate the tasteful thickness of some wide wampum.
snarfy 5 days ago||

    ()_)
dredmorbius 3 days ago||||
Clearly, this is neither.

It's an emoticoin.

fitsumbelay 5 days ago|||
... which makes it grrrrreat
jasonm23 4 days ago|||
Proudly built with Frontpage 98 ... I nearly spit my coffee.
account42 4 days ago|||
This is exactly what the internet should be.
kcplate 4 days ago||
It made me happy to see it and updated in 2025. I miss this internet.
vpShane 6 days ago||
[dead]
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
Hello This is Theo. I have paused sale of the Coins to handle pre-orders. There are some left for Later. Thank You for your interest in substantial coinage
a_c 5 days ago||
I like your page. Wish more web pages are like that. Would you ship to the UK when open to order again?
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
YES--I HAVE ALREADY SENT SOME THERE
sizzle 5 days ago|||
The man, myth, and legend himself! Can I get a coin?
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
I will (benevolently) accept a trade of some of your thin coins for a thick one. Next week1

P.S. It will require aLARGE quantity of thin coins, due to their relative worthlessness and pathetic Nature

lxgr 5 days ago|||
Would feeble personal cheques or money orders be acceptable too, despite featuring at least 50% fewer dimensions?
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
iF THE BANK ACCOUNT BACKING THE CHEQUE IS NOT SIMILARLY enfeebled
lxgr 5 days ago||
Backed by the full faith and credit of a person you met on the Internet.
sizzle 3 days ago|||
Where may I send the thin coins or will digital coins suffice?
shreyansdoshi 4 days ago|||
Love your page man! xD
wsve 5 days ago||
Do you plan to branch out to new coin lines?
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
Yes I am considering an annual release of thicker coins nickels are not the only coin suffering from slight stature
atomic_cowprod 5 days ago||
Theo: I'm not sure if you still read this echo, but I've been trying to call you about my pre-order, but it looks like your BBS is still down. If you can get back to me, send me netmail. I'm at 1:342/76 for Fido and 11:420/69 for MJNet.

-- SLMR/2 2.4b Origin: Sunnyside Acres -- (203) 555-1212 -- 1:342/76

Windows is not a virus, viruses DO something.

crike 5 days ago||
He’s busy minting with his hammer.
theodorenichols 5 days ago||
Hello Mr. Prod,

I do not understand your message but you may send me an e-Mail or reach me here

Aardwolf 5 days ago||
I like the throwback 1998 design while it's created in 2025. They got it down even to the colored grain on the photographs and text with jpeg artifacts on them - even though that is something that actually did improve in 2025 :)
bartread 5 days ago||
> that is something that actually did improve in 2025

Aye, but the old skool way fits the overall aesthetic better. They've even got a few animated GIFs.

I actually really love the way this site looks - I miss the days when most websites looking something like this, especially where they've avoided going full Christmas tree with the design. And look at how fast it loads.

qsort 5 days ago|||
It might be 1998 design, but I'd much rather visit a 1998 website than the vast majority of "modern" stuff. My other screen has Teams on it and without a shred of irony and before accounting for the waste of resources, that website looks way better to me than an allegedly professional application does.
xnorswap 5 days ago||
It hotlinks geocities via the wayback machine cache. I'd tut but hotlinking others' random images is very on-brand for 90's web design too.
velcrovan 5 days ago||
Admins/mods: you should strip the Beehiiv link id from the link. https://thick-coins.net/
LeifCarrotson 5 days ago|
And HN users should run the "ClearURLs" extension[1] (or similar) to automatically strip these and other tracking links from their browser.

Or at least read the URL they've entered when posting and manually prune unnecessary parameters.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

lxgr 5 days ago|||
Or consider using Firefox, which has a native "Copy clean link" context menu option. Very useful!
jxmorris12 5 days ago||||
My bad. Do they make this for Chrome?
mrguyorama 5 days ago|||
Only until it affects Google's bottom line.
WorldPeas 5 days ago|||
I believe brave has this functionality, and an adblocker
igor47 5 days ago|||
Whoa the list of required permissions for you extension is long and scary.
RandomBacon 5 days ago||
It is a "Recommended" extension by Firefox which means:

> The Firefox team, along with community input, handpicks each extension and conducts manual security reviews to ensure they comply with policies before being awarded the “Recommended” status.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges#w_recomme...

Chant-I-CRW 6 days ago||
Dang...sure would like some thnickels of my own. After that tree fell on my house it is really windy here. I could use something heavy to hold down my punch cards.
CoastalCoder 5 days ago||
I suggest buying a Three Wolves t-shirt.

I once saw a guy in a similar predicament. To address this, he donned his Three Wolves shirt and stood in an empty meadow by his house. Within 15 minutes there were 10-12 attractive women (some single, some not) circling him in a tight formation.

He returned to his house and sat near the pile of punch cards (or coupons, I forget). His ad hoc harem sat as well so they could study his chiseled features, which kept the coupons safe from blowing away.

I've heard that although the coupons have long-since expired, the women happily remain.

Chant-I-CRW 5 days ago|||
Legend. I could use a harem too. These punch cards aren't going to punch themselves.
Mtinie 5 days ago|||
Your unexpected anecdote perfectly encapsulates why I love HN!
waltbosz 6 days ago||
I think this is a joke by Alan Wagner who goes by the handle truewagner. https://truewagner.com/ . You'll have to Google his socials to find his art.
n2d4 6 days ago||
Almost — it was made by Legboot, who makes similarly weird stuff, but to my knowledge is not the same person https://x.com/LegbootLegit
idamantium 5 days ago|||
Yup. This supposed exchange with his neighbor making the coins is pretty amusing. Explanations the note on the website about the neighbor not having given them back yet. https://x.com/LegbootLegit/status/1919745971673551192
marssaxman 3 days ago|||
Thanks for the pointer! I hadn't heard of Legboot.

Ken M. is another name to watch out for, if you like this kind of thing.

pierrec 6 days ago|||
I could not find any direct evidence but it's a good theory. Legboot and Wagner sometimes comment on each other's (uniquely similar) stuff. This also seems like an evolution of Wagner's "Williamcoin". Compare:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Killtony/comments/1i9czr5/williamco...

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueWagner/comments/1ld4lix/big_upd...

mkmk 5 days ago||
The best giveaway is that the sentences are short and punchy. If it were made by the character it claims to be made by, it would actually devolve into a long ramble, and nobody would make it to the bottom of the page.
jcattle 5 days ago||
I love where he describes his minting facility:

"My new state of some art facility is equipped with several tools and a powerful workhorse (me)!"

lqet 5 days ago||
> Website proudly built with FrontPage 98.
Mtinie 5 days ago||
You know it’s old school when it’s not “built with love”. :)
nartho 5 days ago||
"Built with ♥ by our code monkeys"
65 5 days ago||
"Buy me a coffee"
alexjplant 5 days ago|||
I proudly built my grandpa's photography website with a sheet-fed scanner and a copy of FrontPage 98 when I was in the third grade. Sadly it was hosted on the municipal utility commission's site and wasn't crawled by Archive.org so it's lost to time :-(.
morkalork 5 days ago|||
Takes me back to grade 9 and doing a group project in the library where everyone had to make a website on their topics in FrontPage. Whoever came up with that idea must have a tech true believer gen-Xer. It was actually kinda fun.
gazpachotron 5 days ago||
One of the best things about FrontPage is the book that Charles Ferguson wrote about starting it, building it, and selling it to Microsoft: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars.
IAmGraydon 6 days ago|
I miss this web.
patates 5 days ago||
Start something in neocities and join a webring!
rambambram 5 days ago|||
No you don't. The web misses you.
komali2 5 days ago||
Apparently it still exists! My friend keeps trying to get me to join his webring, whatever that is, sounds like a potential way to connect together websites like this though.
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