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gifcities.org by Internet Archive – search for GIFs scraped off geocities sites

• cedilla 3y ago
  Search for "construction" to see an authentic geocities site.
  • toinewx 3y ago
    or even "Welcome"
• deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
• maxglute 3y ago
  Would be interesting if theres a rank list by frequency/popularity.
• petesergeant 3y ago
  13-year-old me made a lot of design decisions based around incorporating https://web.archive.org/web/20091025150648im_/http://geocities.com/ionedur/ani-fire.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20091025150648im_/http://geociti... In addition, this still causes a wave of excitement for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20090822000818im_/http://geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/8512/netscape.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20090822000818im_/http://geociti...
  • acheron 3y ago
    I was a bit older, but I definitely had a page prominently featuring the running moose from https://gifcities.org/?q=moose https://gifcities.org/?q=moose
  • chatmasta 3y ago
    Nice to see that https://www.flamingtext.com https://www.flamingtext.com is still around, and basically the same as I remember it (plus some options to pay for your logo).
    • redwall_hp 3y ago
      Wow, I haven't thought about that site in quite awhile. I used to use it heavily.
    • WaffleIronMaker 3y ago
      https://cooltext.com/ https://cooltext.com/ is also a classic
  • vinibrito 3y ago
    First one lightened me up! And last one made me think how artful these things were, nowadays we just get silly, nonsensical and meaningless illustrations in half the pages.
  • JBlue42 3y ago
    >In addition, this still causes a wave of excitement for me [netscape gif] Haha, crazy how that stirred something in me too. Very nostalgic. We were probably around the same age.
• echelon 3y ago
  This is the internet I remember: https://gifcities.org/?q=zelda https://gifcities.org/?q=zelda https://gifcities.org/?q=dbz https://gifcities.org/?q=dbz https://gifcities.org/?q=chrono+trigger https://gifcities.org/?q=chrono+trigger https://gifcities.org/?q=gundam https://gifcities.org/?q=gundam https://gifcities.org/?q=yugi https://gifcities.org/?q=yugi https://gifcities.org/?q=sailor+moon https://gifcities.org/?q=sailor+moon https://gifcities.org/?q=ranma https://gifcities.org/?q=ranma https://gifcities.org/?q=ghibli https://gifcities.org/?q=ghibli https://gifcities.org/?q=mononoke https://gifcities.org/?q=mononoke https://gifcities.org/?q=bebop+ https://gifcities.org/?q=bebop+ https://gifcities.org/?q=ocarina https://gifcities.org/?q=ocarina https://gifcities.org/?q=mario https://gifcities.org/?q=mario https://gifcities.org/?q=bandicoot https://gifcities.org/?q=bandicoot https://gifcities.org/?q=ff+vii https://gifcities.org/?q=ff+vii https://gifcities.org/?q=rpg https://gifcities.org/?q=rpg https://gifcities.org/?q=anime https://gifcities.org/?q=anime And this is how "social media" was done: https://gifcities.org/?q=forums https://gifcities.org/?q=forums https://gifcities.org/?q=avatar https://gifcities.org/?q=avatar https://gifcities.org/?q=signature https://gifcities.org/?q=signature https://gifcities.org/?q=siggy https://gifcities.org/?q=siggy https://gifcities.org/?q=join https://gifcities.org/?q=join https://gifcities.org/?q=fanzine https://gifcities.org/?q=fanzine
  • a_vanderbilt 3y ago
    Looking through some of these really makes me curious about the context.
• a1o 3y ago
  The search results for Xfiles has something I wasn't expecting there.
• hansonpeter 3y ago
  [dead]
• kerv 3y ago
  Dancing baby! https://web.archive.org/web/20090830200258/http://www.geocities.com/sanjhapunjab/babyjatt.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20090830200258/http://www.geocit...
• ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  (2016)
  • ChrisArchitect 3y ago
    The associated blog post from the team at the time: https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/01/gifcities-the-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/ https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/01/gifcities-the-geocities-...
• muppetman 3y ago
  They happily launch all this stuff and just flat out refuse to reply to many requests asking for pages of mine they've archived to be removed. I've added specific X- headers in my HTTP headers to prove I own the website and have authority to request this etc. Nothing. It really annoys me everyone loves them and praises them, but they won't even do the simplest of simple things to do the right thing. And then when I say this, people defend them with "They have no people/time" yet they manage to produce things like what's linked. Which is quite cool. But still, do the basics please IA.
  • asynchronous 3y ago
    What did you want taken down?
    • muppetman 3y ago
      Personal diary that's been scraped. I stuffed up robots.txt for a few months and so it got scraped. 100% my mistake. There's nothing sensitive etc there, I'm fully aware if I publish something I can't unpublish it. I would like it removed though. It's my content and I'd like it to not be archived without my consent.
• deleted 3y ago
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• mysterydip 3y ago
  Searched for "torch" and first result was the one I had on my geocities page. Brought a smile to my face
• wolpoli 3y ago
  These gifs are meant to go along side web content in the 90s. They aren't sufficient to stand by itself as a social media post, so they have no plane on the modern web and so we don't see them anymore.