I was wondering where the odd 88x31 size came from. According to this [1] it's basically because at one point GeoCities used a GIF of this size and then everyone copied it.<p>[1] <a href="https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/140100/why-has-8831-become-the-standard-ratio-for-micro-bars" rel="nofollow">https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/140100/why-has-8831-b...</a>
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What were the ones that were narrower that usually said things like “Apache” or “XHTML” or something technical?<p>Ah here, 80x15 badges: <a href="https://web.badges.world" rel="nofollow">https://web.badges.world</a><p>I think those were popular a bit later than the 88x31 ones.
Seeing all these load immediately, and none of them stall, and then they all animate simultaneously and the browser doesn't crash ... feels really weird.
Seeing all the Macromedia ones (“Made with Macromedia Dreamweaver”) right next to the Adobe ones is probably intentional, but still a little jarring even all these years later.<p>I cut my teeth building sites with Dreamweaver back in the day and still am sore about Adobe letting it wither on the vine after the acquisition.