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"Best viewed with Netscape": How many pieces of flair did your website have?


If you watched Office Space, you might have a clue where the title of this post came from.


Remember websites in the 90's? Those had flair. Flair being a website packed full of tiny 88x31 gif buttons.


As I was in the process of writing a script to automatically convert my gemlog to html, I just felt something was missing when viewing the output.

Later that night, I woke up out of a fever dream and it hit me, what's a website without a 'Best viewed with Netscape' button?


Then I went down the rabbithole, I came across archive after archive of old website buttons.

Just some tiny buttons on a web page, yet so succesful in expressing what you (or your website) is about.


My pieces of flair


Captain's Quarters on HTTP where you can see the buttons on the bottom of the page Screenshot of my flair


Just 5 for now but I'll make an effort to get it up to at least 15


Flair Button Resources


Warning, this will be a big nostalgia trip for some of you! Only visit these if you have time to spare.


The 88x31 GIF Collection 88x31 Buttons Internet Button Archive



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"Best viewed with Netscape": How many pieces of flair did your website have? was published on 2024-04-26


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