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The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by dualogy »

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?

Popular shareware proggies like "Xara3D". Don't think they'd qualify as modeling software. They had basic rotate/translate/scale transform routines in them plus glitzy effects.

(Note "shareware" usually meant cracked as far as youthful hobbyist website building from basements and bedrooms was concerned.)

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#112

Post by dualogy »

systemvoltage wrote: post #43
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.

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 don't even disagree, but even people who couldn't get "What if I need to update the header on every single page" out of their heads just embraced framesets and "server-side includes aka shtml" (and the early highly-limited css) and called it a day. Without CMS etc

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by dannyw »

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.

Post reserved for future use.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by systemvoltage »

dualogy wrote: post #112
systemvoltage wrote: post #43

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 don't even disagree, but even people who couldn't get "What if I need to update the header on every single page" out of their heads just embraced framesets and "server-side includes aka shtml" (and the early highly-limited css) and called it a day. Without CMS etc

Yeah, I am not condoning writing HTML for most things, but for a personal blog where creativity is probably the top thing that matters, it's funny how tightly bound our thinking gets. Sometimes, I just sit back, step out and completely dismantle the status quo.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

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?

There were some people who made 3D animated gifs of diverse subjects for a living (e.g. The Animation Factory). I am sure they used real 3D modelling, animation and rendering software for that.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by junon »

grishka wrote: post #40
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.

Userbars!

Oh mannnnnnnnn yes. I forgot about those.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

#118

Post by junon »

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 this is gorgeous.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by chrismorgan »

cmg wrote: post #52
GloriousKoji wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So... on par with any modern website (minus the 90s)?

As theandrewbailey said, it would absolutely benefit from HTTP/2 - it took about 30 seconds to complete on my fast cable connection on a laptop.

And with higher latency it’s even worse: from Australia, latency to the server was over 350ms (going the long way round, via the USA, for some reason), and it took 80 seconds to load. With HTTP/2, it could have taken as little as two seconds to load, and I’d expect it to take less than eight seconds.

Re: The 88x31 GIF Collection

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Post by tda »

bbrks wrote: post #8

For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...

and it links to the "related question" https://www.quora.com/Around-when-did-the-88x31-for-website-...

which seems like an AI misinterpretation of the question, as it goes back to the prehistoric

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