[HN Gopher] Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons
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Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons
Author : FLpxpyJ
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-09-15 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pixelsea.neocities.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (pixelsea.neocities.org)
| hackermatic wrote:
| Do one for GitHub badges next. ;)
| wildrhythms wrote:
| What a beautiful website!
| tyingq wrote:
| You can also coax google images into finding images of a specific
| size:
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| https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A88x31&tbm=isch
| (88x31)
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A32x32&tbm=isch
| (32x32)
| phit_ wrote:
| 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
| billyhoffman wrote:
| 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
| samstave wrote:
| [dead]
| turtleyacht wrote:
| > _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!_
| cosmojg wrote:
| 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/
| jkingsman wrote:
| 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.
| notpushkin wrote:
| Nice how trends just keep repeating themselves.
| http://www.acasystems.com/base/button/make-button.php?f_txt_...
| xnx wrote:
| Cool tool, and a reminder of how thankful I am that this
| particular button fad has passed.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then?
| tyingq wrote:
| 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.
| xnx wrote:
| 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.
| upwardbound wrote:
| 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.
| willio58 wrote:
| Love it. To me this is a playful way to use sound. It's loud,
| bright, flashy, interactive.
| accrual wrote:
| 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.).
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| https://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons
| vinyl7 wrote:
| These were the good ol days
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