{"id":206,"date":"1999-07-31T23:33:00","date_gmt":"1999-08-01T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T21:23:43","slug":"bumper-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/bumper-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper Stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Bumper Stickers” was a term I first heard used by Scott Tadman<\/a>. These are his original words on the topic from the 1990s, as well as my growing collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[They are known as banner ads, but I still prefer Bumper Stickers.]
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

It came to me one night, through the pounding headache and massive amounts of “C&C<\/a>“-eye. A billboard for non-ads. An advertisement for something other than a product or service. A personal soap-box of sorts. Just like a bumper sticker. Or, more importantly, something else to waste massive amounts of time on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it? Simply, a 468×60 GIF image, the same kind used by “real” advertisers on their sites. Like Yahoo<\/a>, Lycos<\/a> and Infoseek<\/a>. Why someone chose a number like 468 is still unknown, but that’s how most Internet standards are made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"DOS<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Genuine<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"This<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"No<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"I've<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Lore<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Friends<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Eat,<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Banner<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

— Scott Tadman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

These were spawned, as you can no doubt tell, from massive amounts of Carmageddon<\/a> playing. They were done by myself and Marty Bregman<\/a> around 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"My<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"This<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

At another place of contract in 1999ish, Young & Rubicam Canada<\/a>, we have these little birthday doos for our co-workers. One of them, a very good designer who’s birthday was around the beginning of December, made this as a thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Sadly, I can’t find this bumper sticker anywhere. \ud83d\ude41 –Adam, 2016]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

I’ve recently (2016) been tasked with creating another one for this very site, so I’m sure some more shitty<\/del> fantastic examples will show up soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Bumper Stickers” was a term I first heard used by Scott Tadman. These are his original words on the topic from the 1990s, as well as my growing collection. [They are known as banner ads, but I still prefer Bumper Stickers.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-projects","tag-bumperstickers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriven.ca\/~scriven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}