The 88x31 GIF Collection • Hacker News Board

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#101

Post by atum47 » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 1:21 AM UTC

Now that I'm seeing this on my desktop it seems to be working just fine. Back this afternoon when I took a look at it from my phone, it wasn't. some of the gifs weren't loading and breaking the grid.

anyways, my suggestions it would be to write a small script that iterates through a list of links and dynamically create an Image and only attaching that image to the page on the 'onLoad' function (kind of a try / catch sort of thing).

Great project never the less.

p.s.: do you happen to have the Russian bride link? it's for a friend

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#102

Post by lnyan » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:29 AM UTC

Interesting. I clicked into that site and found there is no GIF on the page. It turns out that all GIFs are blocked by the uBlock with cosmetic filtering.

Unsurprisingly, the blocking rule is simply `img[width="88"][height="31"]`

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#103

Post by rhacker » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:46 AM UTC

aba_cz wrote: post #68

junon wrote: 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.

You know what's interesting? You are not alone. Something Awful forums still have most of these things and people are even paying for that in the year 2021 :D

That's still around? I don't even remember my username.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#104

Post by rhacker » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:48 AM UTC

roland35 wrote: post #90

junon wrote: 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.

Can't forget albino black sheep and homestar runner!

BALEETED

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#105

Post by nine_k » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:49 AM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #28

zamadatix wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"why one place picked something" doesn't require special reasoning like "why everyone picked something" does.

I know, but I was hoping for something like "you could fit 4 of the buttons in a browser window, on a 640x480 screen" (the standard of the time)

I'd say 800x600 was more prevalent in 1995. You could get real 60 Hz in this mode on most monitors, which looked much better on a CRT than lower refresh rates. Cheap VGA cards could not pull this trick at 1024x768, though, and it flickered painfully.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#106

Post by 101008 » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:50 AM UTC

MrLeap wrote: post #92

pineconewarrior wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! This is how I got my start in design. So many Photoshop tutorials that started with Render Clouds. Haha!

clouds -> difference clouds a few times -> invert -> ctrl+L and compress = lightning is still a recipe in my muscle memory.

Ha, exactly!

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#107

Post by justusthane » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 2:55 AM UTC

jordemort wrote: post #86

Some of these seem anachronistic; for example, there are couple for (and one against!) Discord. According to Wikipedia, Discord was released in 2015, which seems long after peak 88x31 GIF.

There's a COVID-19 one too. The top of the page says "A collection of 3182 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990’s, 2000’s, and today in GIF format. "

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#108

Post by TimTheTinker » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 3:02 AM UTC

pak wrote: post #65

junon wrote: 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.

You'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

Wow, that's really cool!

What I want to know is, how did people make all those amazing 3D rotating animated gifs back then?

Did they use 3d modeling software?

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#109

Post by mook » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 3:25 AM UTC

andai wrote: post #100

cyberge99 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were hacking back then too. pipelining:true (Not really a hack, but a lesser known optimization)

I remember enabling this in Firefox. Why wasn't it the default?

I believe they had reports of popular transparent proxies that broke with it set, and the users involved typically weren't in a situation to not use those proxies.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#110

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 3:52 AM UTC

TimTheTinker wrote: post #108

pak wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

Wow, that's really cool! What I want to know is, how did people make all those amazing 3D rotating animated gifs back then? Did they use 3d modeling software?

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