Oh, wow, thanks, no one has ever asked me that one before.
Uh, it’s probably from Flaming Text, which is (or at least used to be) a handy free online thing to generate logos with or without animation.
There was another site I used for a couple of the ping list logos, I forget why. And I forget the name of that one. :^)
I remember being able to make flaming text, when I had Microsoft Frontpage on my computer.
Flamingtext.com is great, SunkenCiv. You get lots of choices in the way to display the GIF (font, transparency, color of text, border of text.
NICE. Thanks.