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I was wondering where the odd 88x31 size came from. According to this [1] it's basically because at one point GeoCities used a GIF of this size and then everyone copied it.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/140100/why-has-8831-b...

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Keeping them at a uniform size probably helped them stack evenly when displayed in an HTML table. Back in the day, these GIFs served as site badges or favicons, which weren't created until 1999.

interesting, so basically a standard by simply everyone using it, like the #. Cool.

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