88x31, cool retro buttons

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:10:27 +0100

Yesterday I was browsing multiple blogs from iii.social and came across https://jotalea.com.ar/. What caught my attention was a tab called 88x31, which sounded like a rather strange name. After opening it, I was delighted to find custom retro buttons that are 88x31 pixels.

These buttons were popular in the 1990s, before and during my early childhood, and were later discontinued, so I didn’t get to see them until now. They were used by many websites hosted on GeoCities as badges, buttons, or to promote communities. The buttons were intentionally small, since bandwidth was more scarce in that era of the internet, and they fit well in tables, which were widely used to build websites at the time.

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88x31, cool retro buttons