GifCities – The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine

Gifs, especially anime and cartoon gifs were an important part of my childhood. Everyday, for 2 years I used to spend countless number of hours hoarding pictures and gifs of animes and cartoons from different sites on the interwebs and save them in directories where each of the directory was dedicated to a particular anime and was named accordingly. I used the gallery view in folders on windows to make the experience even better (for myself) to look back on the beautiful collection of pictures and gifs I had wasted countless number of hours collecting.

Sadly, one day my dad called a computer technician to fix the PC cuz it was too slow. The technician backed up everything but the Documents/Pictures folder which had my precious collection. The folder amounted to atleast a few GBs. But alas, it was summertime and I was skating in the streets of Pune during which the surprise PC fixing took place. When I came back, freshened up and turned on the desktop, i was greeted by a new installation of Windows Vista and an empty Pictures folder in my documents.

Keep multiple copies of your precious data kids, thank me later.

Good grief. That flashing search button GIF... and the similarly garish loading GIF. That is the 1990s web all over for me. A very powerful hit of nostalgia there. Particularly with this one: https://gifcities.org/?q=construction. Nice work.

Searched 'dragonball' and the memories came flooding back of using dreamweaver to make a website in grade 6. I don't remember what the site was about, I just know dragonball gifs were a critical part of it.

I think I’d better add some “Under Construction” gifs to my next PowerBI dashboard.

Hmmm, the featured example "star wars" returns lots of stars in lots of varieties (twinkling night sky, rotating, David's etc. etc.), but nothing related to the movie franchise. I tried "Simpsons" (inspired by the Itchy & Scratchy GIF), that was a lot more successful...

Searched for "torch" (the medieval kind, not the electronic variety), and the one I had on my "super cool" site back in the day was the first result.

I wonder if this was inspired by https://www.cameronsworld.net/.

This search tool has already helped me find new links for my diablo 1 fanpage. I am trying to compile as many links to old fan pages as possible. This is HUGE for me. I am incredibly excited!

Oh God! I love this already!

My personal website homepage was looking too dull and boring. I was thinking of throwing everything out the window and starting from scratch without using any external libraries and such, making it retro style with retro looks

this is going to help a lot.

finally I can find some good under construction gifs to let people know my website is really still in progress!