Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.
So... on par with any modern website (minus the 90s)?
The 88x31 GIF Collection
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Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#12For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...
>> At this point in time the largest provider of personal hosting was GeoCities. In order to improve brand awareness, they required that all free hosting users have a link back to GeoCities somewhere on the page. They helpfully provided default banners for these links at - you guessed it - the dimensions of 88x31
But that doesn't really explain why 83x31 was chosen by Geocities
Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#13This takes me back to the days of forum signatures, planetrenders.com, pixel fonts with 1px strokes, making emoticons ( not emojis) on deviantArt, BBCode and making long-winded posts on VBulletin/PhpBB boards with the top three posts "reserved for later use". Man I wish I could go back.
> pixel fonts with 1px strokes
Nostalgia kicked in hard.
Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#14Oh wow. I remember writing my first website and coveting those little banners. All the real websites had them outline their community associations and capabilities.
Oh, my website is just a bit of text in some awful arrangement of neon colours that work in every browser? Better have an animated badge for each browser so that the people know, because the people must know!
Excellent find!
Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#15For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...
https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31.html
Why 88 by 31, anyway? Who started this? A Quora poster speculates GeoCities started this trend when they provided 88x31 GeoCities buttons for their users, but the contemporary source she references actually says the trend was started by Netscape.
Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#16For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...
>> At this point in time the largest provider of personal hosting was GeoCities. In order to improve brand awareness, they required that all free hosting users have a link back to GeoCities somewhere on the page. They helpfully provided default banners for these links at - you guessed it - the dimensions of 88x31 But that doesn't really explain why 83x31 was chosen by Geocities
"why one place picked something" doesn't require special reasoning like "why everyone picked something" does.
Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection
#17For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...
>> At this point in time the largest provider of personal hosting was GeoCities. In order to improve brand awareness, they required that all free hosting users have a link back to GeoCities somewhere on the page. They helpfully provided default banners for these links at - you guessed it - the dimensions of 88x31 But that doesn't really explain why 83x31 was chosen by Geocities
It fit the font they chose. The designer probably didn't care how many pixels were in the image so long as it looked ok on their screen.
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#18I miss this version of the internet :( Everything is so boring now.
For anyone nostalgic for this type of old/weird internet, you should check out TikTok before it becomes too commercial/formalized. Still a lot of weird/random/raw stuff on there.
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#19Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.
Imagine loading this page in the 90s though! One new HTTP connection at a time, a full TCP handshake. Maybe if you were lucky you were using Netscape which would load up to 4 resources at once!
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#20I miss this version of the internet :( Everything is so boring now.
They should have built the site in Tailwind...