The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

Internet archives have facilitated the search for GIF in the era of the 90s. Gull Contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and soup Nazis. GIFs were removed from the old Geocities web pages, which (mainly) bit the dust in 2009.

The new version of gificities is much easier to look for. You can now search semantically, depending on the content of the animation. In other words, it is much more likely to raise the subject or scene you are looking for by describing it. In the old version of Gifcities, you can only search by file name. (If you feel masochistic, you can always access this version under a “Special Search” tab.)

Updated gifcites also use pagination. This is a good thing, because the infinite scrolling of the old version could make slow navigation. You can also create and share “gifgrams”. As its name suggests, these are personalized e-greetings made from these ancient GIFs.

Internet archives Launched Gifcities in 2016 To celebrate its 20th birthday. If you are too young to find out, Geocities was the internet accommodation service at the start of the Internet par excellence. A precursor of social media, he was full of pages of embarrassing fans, personal photo albums and “under construction” GIF. (You will find a lot of the latter in this search engine.) Yahoo disconnected most of the geocities in 2009. (Disclosure: this is the parent company of Engadget.) However, the Japanese version survived for another decade.

If you are a certain age, you will probably appreciate Browse the archives. (Or, discover what happened for humor on the internet before your birth!) Simply note that many results are NSFW. I made the mistake of looking for “M. T” and I will now let you go out your eyes with bleach.