Garbage Galaxy Gifcities - Archive of GeoCities gifs

[A. G. Cook]

Came across this website, https://gifcities.org/, through an unusual source. Was listening to the new Magdalena Bay debut album Mercurial World and in an interview talks about their aesthetic and how they used Gifcities to create their website. I think it's a pretty neat look back at the age of animated gif garbage, and how it helped cemented everyone's little creative corner on the internet before it became a landscape of capitalisms.

Post some of your favorite gifs you find through the search engine! I was looking through some pages on a Discord call last night and the nostalgia was so hard that I could smell the cheap, grey 90s computer plastic.

 

[Mendinso]

I feel old...

 

[victorprime]

 

[A. G. Cook]

I feel old...

Yeah, that's exactly how old GIFs make me feel but also I think it's there's something very satisfying about watching animations that littered every webpage in the late 90s.

 

[Delio]

Wow what a throwback. Takes me back to a time where the internet was pretty new to me and just going to random geocities sites getting random anime music from random links. Honestly the internet doesnt feel the same.

 

[chocolate_supra]

Wow what a throwback. Takes me back to a time where the internet was pretty new to me and just going to random geocities sites getting random anime music from random links. Honestly the internet doesnt feel the same.

ooooooooh man I remember those DBZ ones

 

[Delio]

ooooooooh man I remember those DBZ ones

I swear the DBZ ones were on every dang webpage back then even when it didn't have anything to do with it.

 

[A. G. Cook]

Here's another cool 90s archival site, where you click on any GIF and it loads a Geocities webpage.

https://www.cameronsworld.net/

 

[Lord Azrael]

Damn, what a blast from the past

 

[CloverNotes]

What is this? Are these those clip art things people used on their websites?

 

[Delio]

What is this? Are these those clip art things people used on their websites?

Wait have you never seen Geocities websites from back in the day? Those were things that people used to make to put on their websites back then.

 

[A. G. Cook]

What is this? Are these those clip art things people used on their websites?

These types of GIFs were the aesthetic of 90s personal webpages. If you didn't have a website littered with GIFs, you weren't truly living.

 

[chocolate_supra]

These types of GIFs were the aesthetic of 90s personal webpages. If you didn't have a website littered with GIFs, you weren't truly living.

Even the concept of "personal webpages" feels like such a throwback.

 

[Pancoar]

Man this takes me back to the early days of the internet

 

[Phantoon]

I miss those days. Everything was much less professional but much more interesting. Web rings, under construction GIFs and counters, oh my.

Tonnes of hideous page backgrounds with clashing text colours, but it was deeply personal, unlike today's internet

 

[A. G. Cook]

I miss those days. Everything was much less professional but much more interesting. Web rings, under construction GIFs and counters, oh my.

Tonnes of hideous page backgrounds with clashing text colours, but it was deeply personal, unlike today's internet

Yeah, it's a little sad that social media took over and that very few people have their little corner of the internet. It felt new and exciting back then.

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

Man, this is my jam.

Yeah, it's a little sad that social media took over and that very few people have their little corner of the internet. It felt new and exciting back then.

I'm actually working on a neocities website at the moment lol

 

[FormatCompatible]

 

[A. G. Cook]

Man, this is my jam.



I'm actually working on a neocities website at the moment lol

Wait a minute, I've never heard of this.... let me investigate.

 

[Ramune]

This unlocked something deep inside me, oh my god. I think I might have used one of these as an avatar or in my sig somewhere at some point.

 

[Byakuya]

I used that Sephiroth one as my avatar on a forum back in 2003 or so. Damn.

 

[heavy liquid]

Man, stuff like this takes me back to the mid 90's. I used to rent Evangelion VHS tapes from a Japanese bookstore and watch them unsubbed, complete with commercials. I'd then spend each week searching Netscape for EVA websites to find translations and summaries of each new episode.

 

[BGBW]

I used to have these gifs plasted all over my desktop back in the days of Windows 98.

 

[A. G. Cook]

Man, stuff like this takes me back to the mid 90's. I used to rent Evangelion VHS tapes from a Japanese bookstore and watch them unsubbed, complete with commercials. I'd then spend each week searching Netscape for EVA websites to find translations and summaries of each new episode.

I loved visiting late 90s anime and video game fansites. It was always cool to see how unique a website would be, the internet felt like very space was truly different.

Doesn't quite feel the same now, there is a lot of redundancy in the way corporations set up websites.

 

[heavy liquid]

I loved visiting late 90s anime and video game fansites. It was always cool to see how unique a website would be, the internet felt like very space was truly different.

Doesn't quite feel the same now, there is a lot of redundancy in the way corporations set up websites.

For sure. And all those scattered sites were fansites in the truest sense of the word. Made out of love by huge fans of whatever it was and just wanted to share the experience with everyone.

 

[BGBW]

I loved visiting late 90s anime and video game fansites. It was always cool to see how unique a website would be, the internet felt like very space was truly different.

Doesn't quite feel the same now, there is a lot of redundancy in the way corporations set up websites.

Fan Wikis seems to have replaced individual fan pages these days. It's rather a shame that the idea that everyone would have their own little site on the web (which is why ISPs used to give you a small about of web hosting) died out.

 

[Yzz]

Not a gif, but I like the sense of 'void' and ambiguity some of these sites had:

from: https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3900