Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbciis.gif
Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!
My favorite one I think is the Internet Explorer/Google Chrome "Same shit different - " one, because it's obviously recent and somehow iconic of the sort of person who reminisces about the old web, and clearly narrowcasting to such people.
Yeah, I knew what they were but I'd never heard them described as "88x31 buttons," even back in the early 00s, so I had no idea what this article was going on about at first.
Did you not read "Some examples of sites sharing some thematic elements spanning over 25 years:" followed by links to different galleries? Is clicking a link all that hard? It lets the reader browse examples at their own pace. I thought this was HN, not TikTok.
Love how the top comment right now is from someone who didn't read the second paragraph in the article, where it links to a bunch of sites with 88x31 buttons.
I actually did click through the links to find those, and I was annoyed that I had to do that instead of having at least one rendered inline in the article.
It even has some examples of other size images inline, but none of the titular 88x31 buttons. I found it odd.
I clicked through a couple of those pages, didn't see any obvious buttons and even if I did, kind of ambiguous which ones are the right size without checking.
