Yes. GifCities is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.

How long does GifCities take?

Good within five seconds of loading. We file it under "Instant" — search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted.

Does GifCities work on a phone?

Yes. GifCities works on a phone as well as it does on a laptop.

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GifCities

Search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted

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Instant · Works anywhere

Free, no sign-up · online since 2016

What GifCities actually is

Built by the Internet Archive for its twentieth birthday, GifCities indexes the animated GIFs recovered from GeoCities user pages. Type a word and back comes a grid of jittering, dithered, 216-colour results, each one linking to the archived page it was pulled from.

Why it is worth your time

Searching something mundane like 'email' returns forty different spinning envelopes, which is a fair summary of the entire era.

Common questions

Is GifCities free?: Yes. GifCities is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does GifCities take?: Good within five seconds of loading. We file it under "Instant" — search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted.
Does GifCities work on a phone?: Yes. GifCities works on a phone as well as it does on a laptop.
What kind of site is GifCities?: We list it under Time Machines — the internet's own memory, still browsable. Searching something mundane like 'email' returns forty different spinning envelopes, which is a fair summary of the entire era.

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Search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted

Visit gifcities.org More Time Machines

gifcities.org

Instant · Works anywhere

Free, no sign-up · online since 2016

What GifCities actually is

Why it is worth your time

Searching something mundane like 'email' returns forty different spinning envelopes, which is a fair summary of the entire era.

Common questions

Is GifCities free?: Yes. GifCities is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does GifCities take?: Good within five seconds of loading. We file it under "Instant" — search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted.
Does GifCities work on a phone?: Yes. GifCities works on a phone as well as it does on a laptop.
What kind of site is GifCities?: We list it under Time Machines — the internet's own memory, still browsable. Searching something mundane like 'email' returns forty different spinning envelopes, which is a fair summary of the entire era.