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A search engine for animated GIFs recovered from GeoCities. Type any word and receive several spinning versions of it.
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GifCities sits in Retro Web under Retro, and we have it filed as a minute — one quick round, then you can leave. It reads as nostalgic and funny.
Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
Windows 98 rebuilt in JavaScript, right down to the window chrome and the sound the error dialogs make.
A collage assembled entirely from GeoCities pages — every GIF, marquee and tiled background salvaged and put back to work.
A search engine that strips every result down to plain HTML so it can be read on a genuinely ancient computer. Also very fast.
Noughties television as it actually was, which is more unsettling than the eighties version because you remember most of it.
A simulated television set showing nothing but 1980s programming and adverts, complete with channel dial and static between stations.
The same idea moved a decade forward. Flip channels through the nineties and land somewhere between a cartoon and a cereal advert.
A free host built as a deliberate successor to GeoCities, full of hand-written personal pages by people who wanted to make one.
A vaporwave station running continuously since 2015, wrapped in a desktop you can rearrange while it plays.