Banana faces

BANANAFACES OF THE WORLD is a compact, 41-image gallery tucked into Bareknuckles.org. Numbered thumbnails sit beside a larger detail pane, turning one extremely specific collection into a quick tour of old-web earnestness.

What is Banana faces?

The opening page is an old-school two-frame setup: one document carries 41 numbered JPEG thumbnails, while the larger pane begins with image 100_1934 and the small flourish “Never Before Seen.” There is no feed, filter, or explanatory essay competing with the premise. You pick a thumbnail, get the corresponding larger image page, and continue down a parade whose title has already done all the necessary scene-setting. The file-number labels and frameset construction make the gallery feel less like a polished archive and more like a lovingly preserved folder somebody decided the world needed to see.

What you can do there

• Browse 41 numbered photo thumbnails
• Select an image for the larger detail frame

Why we picked it

Its subject is comically narrow, but the structure commits completely: 41 individual image pages, a dedicated thumbnail rail, and almost no prose beyond the grand title. That combination of humble machinery and outsized curatorial confidence is exactly the sort of tiny web artifact worth stumbling across.

How to get the most from it

Start with the thumbnail rail and choose whatever numbered image catches your eye, then work through the collection in any order. If the two-frame layout does not appear, open the thumbnail document directly and use its image links as the gallery index.

Good to know

This is a legacy HTML frames experience, and its fallback page only says that frames are required. Thumbnail labels are file numbers rather than descriptive captions, so navigation may be awkward with assistive technology or a browser that handles old frame layouts poorly.