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Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons

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All of the websites listed on the left via little pixel banners are an absolute hoot as well!

Here are the links for the lazy:

[1] https://melonking.net/

[2] https://gifypet.neocities.org/

[3] https://textures.neocities.org/

[4] https://momg.neocities.org/

[5] https://tamanotchi.world/

[6] https://ozwomp.online/

[7] https://melonland.net/

Thanks for this list! I hope more get involved. https://melonking.net/melon?z=/thoughts/lets-make

Another delightful callout -- make your own Antipixel-style badge at http://www.acasystems.com/en/button-maker/

I was so smitten with the design of these back in the day.

Cool tool, and a reminder of how thankful I am that this particular button fad has passed.

The badges we see today on Github repos do look a lot like these, don't they?

Nice how trends just keep repeating themselves. http://www.acasystems.com/base/button/make-button.php?f_txt_...

I always appreciated getting to put the "Valid HTML" and "Valid CSS" badges on my websites back in the day. There was some odd pride in having super clean/strict HTML.

I'm considering doing this again for my retro blog, since I'd like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.).

https://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons

> since I'd like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.)

You SHOULD only distribute your website over TLS 1.2 or later, which locks out IE<11 and Firefox<27.

(I will not engage in any discussion about the truth of this SHOULD, since I know it to be sometimes mildly controversial and the subject has been done to death; if you’re not familiar with the arguments, searching should find them easily enough.)

Indeed! I think I'd like to host over TLS v1.3 for modern browsers, but offer plain HTTP for old browsers.

I'm developing a toy static site generator and plan to output nice strict HTML for all clients. Maybe even with the little W3C buttons at the bottom. :)

You can also coax google images into finding images of a specific size:

https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A88x31&tbm=isch (88x31)

https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A32x32&tbm=isch (32x32)

this used to be part of the search settings, then at some point they just turned it into a dropdown of small, medium and large

good to hear that this is still supported albeit hidden

This is an example of what websites should be like. Whimsically creative and a little unhinged.

> Beeep I'd like 2 see the sea with u 2 see what we can be! ... and when ur gone far away, the sea is what I'll see!

Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then?

Netscape made a popular button with these dimensions in 1995 that everyone used as a basis to riff off of. I don't know if there were specific motivations for those exact dimensions by the original designer.

I'm guessing that the reason that the vertical height is 31 instead of 32 is that having the vertical height be an odd number makes it possible to vertically center a number of important symbols, such as +, -, >, arrows, circles, X's, and so on.

Not exactly answering your question, but I'm pretty sure Geocities started it.

See the left sidebar in this wayback grab from 1996:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocit...

So people would use those as a starting point and customize them. Why geocities picked those dimensions? Not sure. They are in a <td> with a width of 120.

Love it. To me this is a playful way to use sound. It’s loud, bright, flashy, interactive.

wow, I was not expecting to fall down a hole of the creator's work for 15 minutes. This was especially fun:

https://textures.neocities.org

I love the last line of the colophon (About Da Site):

> Everyone is wonderful, even you! (Yes you!)

Any second now, dollz are going to make a comeback.

Do one for GitHub badges next. ;)

These were the good ol days

What a beautiful website!

kill the sound, else ; +1

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