Originally published at: Collection of 88×31 pixel web button ads from times of yore | Boing Boing
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That page is positively dizzying.
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I’m having GeoCities flashbacks.
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I’m curious why 88x31 in particular. Was it one agency that created all these?
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It’s called a Micro Bar ad. Once a standard gets defined, no matter how weird it is, everyone has to use it to be compatible. It’s likely to have been some short-lived innovator in the early web ad space.
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All right ladies and gentlemen, what’s the first bid on this fine collection of priceless vintage NFTs?
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Saw these on my first pass. WTH, people. WTH.
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Non-Functional… Tiles?
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This sort of thing always makes me wonder how much of that early web content is tragically lost forever. For some reason I couldn’t care less about current web content.
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Anyone want to join my Star Wars-LOTR-goth-emo-grunge webring? You have to optimize for Netscape Navigator 3.0. No Internet Explorer. I’m sure everyone will want to read my depressed high school poetry!
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Ah Tripod. How I miss thee…
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I still use IrfanView!
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I got a laugh out of how many variations on the “Netscape Now” button were in this collection.
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The format survives as those little “powered by” tags.
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Me too. Irfanview is great
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Wow! SO many things I’ve forgotten and so many things have tried to forget
I am very surprised that there is not a single ad for X-10 in there. Though, I guess it is hard to create a super creepy stalker/voyeur vibe in that size
Fun Fact: Kompressor is actually Drew, the artist behind the “Toothpaste for Breakfast” webcomic
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Ditto! Been since, oh, 1997? Always a useful tool, and free.
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So many “now” (but also a nice smattering of “no” and “never”)
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Wait, how did you find my geocities page?
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