关于
这是一座关于 QQ 空间装扮的电子博物馆，挖掘并收藏 2005 至 2009 年间的 5,851 件装扮，包括皮肤、挂件、漂浮物、鼠标指针、标题栏与 Flash 音乐播放器。
QQ 空间是腾讯于 2005 年推出的个人主页平台，鼎盛时期月活跃用户超过六亿，是当时中国最大的社交网络。对一代人来说，它是人生中第一个自己的页面，Y2K 极繁主义和"非主流"在中文互联网的模样。
本项目由 viola he 设计并制作。ta 因为 QQ 空间和博客大巴才第一次接触到网页编程。
互联网与记忆
Adobe 在 2020 年底终结了 Flash，浏览器随之将其移除；QQ 秀于 2021 年下架；花藤在 2022 年停止运营；虽然 QQ 空间依然在线，装扮商城也已不复存在。
本项目收藏的所有素材都来自 Internet Archive 和腾讯仍在线的 CDN。
- 我从 Internet Archive 时光机的 CDX 索引出发，寻找出所有曾被存档的装扮素材地址，并（惊讶地）发现绝大多数素材在十五年后仍能以原始地址访问。
- 于是我优先从原始地址直接取回素材，少数失效的再从时光机恢复。物品的编号、中文名、上架日期、价格与色系标签，全部还原自 QQ 空间装扮商城的目录接口。
- 动画鼠标文件被逐帧解码为现代浏览器能播放的 APNG 格式，播放器与 Flash 挂件由 Ruffle 模拟器运行，漂浮物轨迹还原自 2006 年腾讯的前端代码。
中文互联网很早就整体搬进了封闭平台，可时光机无法抓取需要账号才能看见的内容。QQ 空间里以文件形态存在的 GIF、皮肤、鼠标，都意外地活了下来；而在登录接口之后的数据，像用户的布局、花藤、留言板，却和服务器一起消失了。
致谢
本项目深受朋友 Kay Zeng 的 qqshow2000.com 影响。她用时光机里打捞的素材重现了 QQ 秀；这个网页也入驻了本站的 QQ 空间装扮页面。和 QQ 秀一样，QQ 空间塑造了数亿人对互联网最初的想象，却在中文互联网之外几乎无人知晓。我们希望这段历史能被更广阔的世界看见。
同样对我影响很深的还有 Jordan Eldredge 的 Webamp 与 Winamp Skin Museum，通过重写复活了 Windows 桌面音乐软件。感谢艺术家朋友们的互联网数字档案工作，包括 Yufeng Zhao 和 Lewei Huang 的 BannerDepot 2000，Amad Ansari 的 Palestine Online。
声明
这是一个非官方、非营利的数字档案项目，仅用于艺术、教育与研究目的。所有素材均恢复自 Internet Archive 时光机与腾讯至今仍在线的 CDN，版权归腾讯控股有限公司所有。如需删除下架，请联系 viola@nyu.edu。
About
This is a digital archive of QZone (QQ空间) decorations, collecting 5,851 files from between 2005 and 2009, including skins, pendants, floaties, cursors, title bars and flash music players.
QZone is the personal-homepage platform Tencent launched in 2005. At its peak it had over 600 million monthly active users, making it the largest social network in China at the time. For a generation it was the first page of their own, and what Y2K maximalism and Fei Zhu Liu ("non-mainstream") looked like on the Chinese internet.
The QZone Museum is designed and built by viola he, who first learned html through QZone and blogbus.
On internet memory
Adobe ended Flash at the close of 2020 and browsers removed it; QQShow was taken down in 2021; the flower-vine garden stopped operating in 2022; though QZone itself technically still exists, its decoration mall is long gone.
Everything on this site came from the Internet Archive and Tencent's CDNs.
- The project started from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine's CDX index, where I found out (with great surprise) that most of the decoration assets still answered at their original addresses, fifteen years later.
- So I fetched assets straight from their original URLs, then recovered the few dead ones from the Wayback Machine. The item ids, Chinese names, release dates, prices and color tags were all crawled from the QZone decoration mall's catalog API.
- The animated cursor .ani files were decoded frame by frame into APNGs, the music players Flash pendants ran in the Ruffle emulator, and the floaties' drifting paths were reconstructed according to Tencent's 2006 front-end code.
The Chinese web moved into closed platforms early and wholesale, and the Wayback Machine cannot crawl content behind an account. The parts of QZone that survived were files like the GIFs, skins, and cursors; meanwhile, the data that lived behind login endpoints — custom layouts, flower gardens, guestbooks — all disappeared along with the servers.
Acknowledgements
This project is deeply influenced by my friend Kay Zeng's qqshow2000.com. She rebuilt QQShow from assets salvaged out of the Wayback Machine; her site also lives inside this museum's QZone dress-up page. Like QQShow, QZone shaped how hundreds of millions of people first imagined the internet, yet remains nearly unknown outside the Chinese-speaking web. We hope this history can be seen by the wider world.
Equally formative were Jordan Eldredge's Webamp and Winamp Skin Museum, which brought the Windows desktop music player back to life by rewriting it in JavaScript. And thank you to artist friends doing internet digital-archive work, including Yufeng Zhao and Lewei Huang's BannerDepot 2000 and Amad Ansari's Palestine Online.
- Typefaces: Zpix, LXGW ZhenKai
- Artwork: the mostly unnamed Tencent designers who drew these 5,851 pixel pieces. If your work is here, I'd love to hear from you!
- Grateful for the assistance of claude code
Disclaimer
This is an unofficial, non-profit digital archive, for artistic, educational and research purposes only. All assets were recovered from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and from Tencent's still-live CDNs; copyright belongs to Tencent Holdings Ltd. For takedown requests, please get in touch: viola@nyu.edu.