just some guy, age 23
-yuri is life
-dandadan peak jump truther
-MCH main
-believer in a sign of zeta
so, why 88x31? those dimensions specifically? my guess would be there was some kind of constraint, or that it fit in a certain kind of space. i was there for the first wave of these and i made one at one point (in like 2000, lol) and i didn't even know then.
to prove i'm geniuine
My guess is that there was some well-known button/image that happened to be 88x31 and everyone copied that format.
That’s somewhat supported by the theories advanced here: http://88x31.nl/history.html
ooh thank you for the resource! it definitely seems to be something like that
this history is satisfyingly organic! i love the idea that it lost a vertical pixel because of, either, the knockoff became the norm because of aggressive gatekeeping, or someone made an oopsie early enough in the lineage that it hasn't been questioned really
