Some of my mastodon threads of interest

Pixel?art

Emoji/emoticons/smileys - where do they come from?
Attribute clash on MSX and ZX Spectrum, in pictures
Cling film scanning technique
S;G Oopa
S;G octet - detailed train
S;G Octet banners
S;G Octet opening
Nae 2
S;G Octet ZX - Nae
Trying to find the first 88x31 banner ever - lots of old screenshots ** tl;dr Netscape Gold 2.0 was released in January 1996, comes with a home page generator that adds "Netscape Now!" 88x31 gif to pages it creates. As for why these dimensions, my guess is: if you want a 3:1 button 32 pixels tall, and insides of the button will be 84x28, but something went wrong, and the image was incorrectly resized. You can see how blurry insides of Netscape 2.0 Now is compared to 3.0 banner.