I'm the PFP godfather, aka DHW. I'm an artist, web3 builder, ex-TV creative, & waaay too early creator of the first ever 3D PFP.
This website contains early PFP artefacts that I inscribed as ordinals on Bitcoin in order to preserve them.
This page is here to provide context for the PFP Origins home page. The main image shows an avatar-maker/PFP-generator timeline that I've been working on. It's incomplete and makes various assumptions based on information gleaned from HNFT forums and social channels.
As always, it's best if you ...Do Your Own Research.
It's worth noting Androidify from 2011 on the timeline. As far as I know, Androidify was Larva Labs first PFP-generator.
The timeline on this page refers to the Egobots alpha being live/online December 2004. We used a third-party website called HeadsUp as a live testbed for an early version of our PFP-generator. The following Internet Archive link shows Egobots characters independently captured back in December 2004 (scroll down, bottom right): https://web.archive.org/web/20041204011423/http://www.headsup.org.uk/content/
Here's a videograb of the award-winning Egobots website from ~2005/06. The video quality isn't great and some of the sound FX lag (~4 mins long):