From what I figure, apparently there was something called Geocities back in the mid-90s to the 2000s. People joined online ‘cities’ and made personal websites.
One of the things people would add into their sites were these 88x31 images, which sometimes contained links.
Short answer: why not?
The longer answer is me waxing poetic.
I’ve made a website long long ago, back in 2021. (In fact, you can still see what remains of it here.
Hi. Let’s see, my last post here was back in 28 Jan 2024. It’s been four months!
I just finished polishing it up yesterday with some minor design changes. With the publish of this post, I got rid of a lot of cringy unhinged text on the main pages.