https://marco.org/2007/07/11/remember-when-tumblr-looked-like-that-i-thought
Remember when Tumblr looked like that? I thought some uber-Tumblr-nerds might find it interesting that the Photo and Video icons were both from pictures I took.
The Photo image was a picture of Tiff’s plush lamb with some of my squishy cows on her bed when she lived in Boston last year.
The Video image wasn’t a video at all - we just took a photo (of Andres trying miserably to flirt with a girl at the Frederator holiday party) that looked like a video frame and made it look like a YouTube video player.
Unfortunately, my photos lost their source of fame when David decided to get a real icon designer for the “2.0” Dashboard page. I still miss the old buttons.