Tiled Image Backgrounds and Why Blogging Rocks - Cartography

My first blog was about dirt biking, so there is a throughline here. Good Enough, creators of the blogging platform Pika, which you’re reading this on right now, have added an incredible “new” feature to their platform: tiled image backgrounds. If you’re old enough to remember the nascent aesthetics of the early web, Geocities and its kin, then you may look upon these tiled backgrounds in a bit of horror. But, if you’re anything like me, you may also look at them with some nostalgic relief, since they represent a time on the internet when no one really knew...