"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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