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For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?" Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the…
There's also: https://gifcities.org/ and I can't help but link to this cozy lil' gem https://www.cameronsworld.net/
It originated as a Commodore 64 320x200 image. Note how there are no color changes between 8x8 pixel blocks.
I forget the artist's first name, but I believe his last name was Sachs. He was a huge deal in 64 art in the 80's, and later transitioned to Amiga.
I think he did a fish tank screen saver, and I seem to recall a video game on the 64 where you flew flying saucers to destroy Washington, DC. Because he was an artist, the graphics were unlike anything else seen at the time on a home computer.
For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?" Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the…
https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31 (link warning: lots of 88×31 GIFs!) says it's likely because the "Netscape Now!" button was of that size.
For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?" Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the…
There's also: https://gifcities.org/ and I can't help but link to this cozy lil' gem https://www.cameronsworld.net/
Big blast of nostalgia from that Japanese pagoda image at the top. It originated as a Commodore 64 320x200 image. Note how there are no color changes between 8x8 pixel blocks. I forget the artist's first name, but I believe his last name was Sachs. He was a huge deal in 64 art in the 80's, and later transitioned to Amiga. I think he did a fish tank screen saver, and I seem to recall a video game on the 64 where you f…
> 1011 requests | 9.3 MB transferred | 9.1 MB resources I was going to warn about this, but then I realized that's probably not even half of the average modern web page size =)
For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?" Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the…
But why did Geocities use the 88×31 format? https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31 (link warning: lots of 88×31 GIFs!) says it's likely because the "Netscape Now!" button was of that size.
For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?" Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the…