A project I worked on for the Internet Archive is out! GifCities, a Geocities animated gif search engine, got a new version supporting semantic search and a gif collage e-card maker ^_^

https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/

Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! | Internet Archive Blogs

I made this collage to celebrate and I'm rather proud of it... https://gifcities.org/gram/bdf035bd-9c8a-450e-b8c7-f617921b2947/
@vilmibm absolutely beautiful
@vilmibm I really like biblically accurate under construction signs
high proof distilled early web
https://gifcities.org/search?q=3d+text
GifCities

i want to learn juuust enough blender to recreate those gifs 🧵☝️ then i'm good to go

@vilmibm oh my god may i just say: thank you so extensively for your work on this. i used it to look for vintage pokemon gifs to build my pokemon site list, and also for sundry things like rotating under construction signs or burning letters for email...

like i was so goddamn happy to discover gifcities

GifCities

@netopwibby @vilmibm @eramdam wow amazing! it finally has good search and pagination (⌒_⌒;) so much more usable now!
@vilmibm In case you were wondering, the source for that pixel art cityscape on the front page is background art for the game X-Kaliber 2097: https://subspacebc.com/x-kaliber-2097/
X-Kaliber 2097 – Subspace Briefcase