4 ms·

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27518478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27518478

• corobo 4y ago
  Summary: Dunno. Back in the day Geocities required sites to link back to their homepage and this was one of the image sizes they provided. The linked article/comments answer when they appeared but not why that size. Lots of guesses, no solid answers.