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The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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post #2

This 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.

I too miss those days.

What's stopping us?

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#43
post #2

This 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.

I used to "hand-craft" HTML. Literally, writing it and no templates so each page is unique. Gallery page was manually updated.

If I kinda deeply think about it - I post may be one post every 2 months. Why the hell do I need a blogging CMS or static site generator, etc? Just craft a HTML page. You can just write it by hand. #header_h1 ...is it that much more work to write header_h1? Especially, every once in 2 months!? Each blog post would be custom. And AWESOME and set in stone. "What if I need to update the header on every single page?" Just don't. No need to update the theme ever. It's like writing a hand written letter, once you put the ink down, it's done. Mail it.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#44
post #9
post #2

This 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.

"Under Construction" images, rotating skull and fire GIFs...

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#45
post #2

This 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.

I used to "hand-craft" HTML. Literally, writing it and no templates so each page is unique. Gallery page was manually updated. If I kinda deeply think about it - I post may be one post every 2 months. Why the hell do I need a blogging CMS or static site generator, etc? Just craft a HTML page. You can just write it by hand. #header_h1 ...is it that much more work to write header_h1 ? Especially, every once in 2 months…

I've been doing this for a while and it's great. If you know a few tricks (optional closing tags, for example), writing HTML by hand can actually be rather pleasant. Go for it!

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#46
post #42

I was surprised to not find any X10 ads in there, but I guess they just never did small GIFs. Some of their examples from back in the day http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kuan/x10.html

Interestingly all of those images seem to be for their camera products. But long before those, X10 sold remote control systems that switched devices on/off over in-home electrical wiring (using the independent X10 protocol). The reliability of these systems were pretty bad as I recall. They offered something like 16 channels with various management devices that allowed for complicated scheduling of device switching.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to "hand-craft" HTML. Literally, writing it and no templates so each page is unique. Gallery page was manually updated. If I kinda deeply think about it - I post may be one post every 2 months. Why the hell do I need a blogging CMS or static site generator, etc? Just craft a HTML page. You can just write it by hand. #header_h1 ...is it that much more work to write header_h1 ? Especially, every once in 2 months…

I've been doing this for a while and it's great. If you know a few tricks (optional closing tags, for example), writing HTML by hand can actually be rather pleasant. Go for it!

I used to copy html from the previous page and then modify as necessary.

Overtime it evolved and got cooler! But, there was no need to go back and update old posts.

I think charm about this is severely underrated as seen by the downvotes.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#48
post #42

I was surprised to not find any X10 ads in there, but I guess they just never did small GIFs. Some of their examples from back in the day http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kuan/x10.html

Interestingly all of those images seem to be for their camera products. But long before those, X10 sold remote control systems that switched devices on/off over in-home electrical wiring (using the independent X10 protocol). The reliability of these systems were pretty bad as I recall. They offered something like 16 channels with various management devices that allowed for complicated scheduling of device switching.

Heh, I remember those. I had my first internship around that time and one of the made-up jobs my boss at the time had me do was look into those switches. Another intern told me he just wanted someone to look into it since he wanted to try using them on his own home. :)

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#49
post #42

I was surprised to not find any X10 ads in there, but I guess they just never did small GIFs. Some of their examples from back in the day http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kuan/x10.html

Interestingly all of those images seem to be for their camera products. But long before those, X10 sold remote control systems that switched devices on/off over in-home electrical wiring (using the independent X10 protocol). The reliability of these systems were pretty bad as I recall. They offered something like 16 channels with various management devices that allowed for complicated scheduling of device switching.

X10 was the first real home automation standard. The protocol was subject to interference and poor propagation, and did not use any EDAC or acknowledgement so it was pretty unreliable. It was still pretty useful for some things, and X10 devices are still being sold.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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post #3

Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.

This site would benefit greatly from HTTP 2.0, but it's kinda cool to see each banner load one after another.

Or even more, data: URIs.
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