The 88x31 GIF Collection

For anyone wondering &quot;Why 88x31?&quot;<p>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 mandatory Geocities one.

There&#x27;s also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gifcities.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gifcities.org&#x2F;</a><p>and I can&#x27;t help but link to this cozy lil&#x27; gem <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cameronsworld.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cameronsworld.net&#x2F;</a>

The &#x27;Best viewed with Internet Explorer&#x27;[0] GIF triggers severe nostalgia.<p>IE was the dominant browser at the time, and these propaganda buttons just reinforced the idea that IE was the only browser you should be using. Still see the odd site saying &#x27;Works best in Chrome&#x27; as if Chrome was the new IE.<p>Personally though, if your site is one of those annoying SPA (Single Page Apps) and doesn&#x27;t work in Lynx[1], you&#x27;re doing it wrong IMHO.<p>Nearly tempted to put a button on my sites saying: &#x27;Best viewed in Lynx&#x27;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyber.dabamos.de&#x2F;88x31&#x2F;bestviewed.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyber.dabamos.de&#x2F;88x31&#x2F;bestviewed.gif</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lynx_(web_browser)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lynx_(web_browser)</a>

Google&#x27;s image search also supports passing &quot;imagesize:WxH&quot;, like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=imagesize:88x31&amp;tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=imagesize:88x31&amp;tbm=isch</a>

&gt; 1011 requests | 9.3 MB transferred | 9.1 MB resources<p>I was going to warn about this, but then I realized that&#x27;s probably not even half of the average modern web page size =)

Discussed in 2021:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27500624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27500624</a> (124 comments)

Did you find this link at the bottom of the blog that leaked TSA no fly list? Because that’s how I found the same site today. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maia.crimew.gay&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maia.crimew.gay&#x2F;</a>

Here&#x27;s a search of 88x31 gifs from CDs, disks, and FTP sites on archive.org as indexed by discmaster.textfiles.com: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;discmaster.textfiles.com&#x2F;search?widthMin=88&amp;heightMin=31&amp;widthMax=88&amp;heightMax=31&amp;dedup=dedup&amp;sortBy=hash&amp;limit=250" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;discmaster.textfiles.com&#x2F;search?widthMin=88&amp;heightMin...</a>

Ugh stop it HN, I can only handle so much nostalgia! FYI, in Japan there&#x27;s a sunset of websites that are meant for a Japanese only audience and the pages are still designed in &#x27;ol faithful web 1.0 designs.

We need to bring back the 88x31 gifs! What&#x27;s missing from the Internet these days is a little bit of heart, and a little bit of soul. All these algorithms curating our content and the people tweaking their content so that the algorithm will rank it better is making the Internet a little less wholesome by the day.

Such a fun way to show all your alliances. AMD, Netscape, your domain provider, your hosting company, a Linux penguin...

Creator should consider combining those that are still or share the same number of frames into a single image, or atleast an image that combines ~100 so that its a single web request, then splice them using CSS.

Related:<p><i>The 88x31 GIF Collection</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27500624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27500624</a> - June 2021 (124 comments)

Seeing a thousand of those images on a single page captures the ‘90s internet. All it lacks is the giant throbbing pulsating ‘N’ up in the corner.

All those banners would make an epic poster :O

These look small on my setup. They used to be displayed 1:1 with low-dpi screen pixels, no scaling.

Back in the day how they use to animate this buttons? CSS?

The WinZip 7 and Sexy Brittney Spears ones really take me back!

Don&#x27;t tell me you wouldn&#x27;t like the web to be, for a couple of hours a day, as it was back then.