Sources: The blinkie I · Decoration
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Source. The 150 by 20 canonical size, the two and three frame counts, the 80 to 200 ms delays, the always infinite loop, the always declared transparent index and the three color palettes are all measured from eight files pulled from graphic.neocities.org on 2 August 2026 and recorded in reference/1-decoration/blinkie/SOURCES.md. The exact palettes #000000 #FF0000 #FFFFFF and #000000 #FF1839 #FFCED6 are read out of two of those files. The catalog order is the sequence of HTML comments in that site's blinkies.html. The hot pink #DF2080 is its stylesheet's single color, used for body text and links alike.
Not one sampled blinkie is shipped here. None of them states a license, most are Tumblr CDN hashes and so are themselves rehosted from somewhere unknown, and the collection asks only for a link back, which is a convention and not a grant. Every blinkie on this page was generated in your browser by the encoder below, from palettes and metrics measured off those files. The type is a FontStruct recreation of MS Sans Serif by "lou", CC BY-SA 3.0.
The maker is a recreation, not an emulation. It composes in palette index space and writes GIF89a with an uncompressed LZW encoder written for this guide, so the output is a real GIF any decoder will read, but it is not the output of any period tool.
Deliberately absent. When blinkies started, who made the first one, and whether LiveJournal or Tumblr or something earlier is where they belong: none of that is in these captures, so none of it is claimed. The sample is eight files from one collection, so "seven of eight are 150 by 20" is exactly what it says and not a survey of the form.