Oh man, seeing "88x31" really takes me back. Internet Explorer and Netscape buttons were all the rage to put on your web site. I remember making some 88x31 buttons/logos myself too. I know it's nostalgia talking but it truly was the good old days of the web to me.
The 88x31 GIF Collection
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#52Fair 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)?
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.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The technology may have been fine. The advertising was insanely ubiquitous, in a way rarely seen since. Maybe Evony?
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#55This page is a great example to show the benefits of caching
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#56Oh I wish I could go back. I remember that these were used a lot for Affiliates links in the sidebar, if you had a niche website. Then, they evolved to a 88x16 size, or at least that's what I remember.
I used to spend a lot of hours creating those for my website... So great times, so many memories... I don't remember being happy back then, but I am sure I was, just that I didnt know.
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#57This 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?
We're all older and we need reading glasses now? ;-)
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#58The internet really is for porn.
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#59For 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.
I also associate that button very strongly with Netscape. I was surprised to not see one which had the Netscape logo on it, only a "Netscape Now" button was there among other "Now" buttons.
I wonder if the 31px height was from the height of the logo on the right of the address bar, the one which was animated. I don't know which height it was, but it could match.
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#60Fair 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.
Some do fail to load for me, yet they then do load when I right click them to open them in a new tab.