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Dancing baby! https://web.archive.org/web/20090830200258/http://www.geocit...

Search for "construction" to see an authentic geocities site.

or even "Welcome"

13-year-old me made a lot of design decisions based around incorporating https://web.archive.org/web/20091025150648im_/http://geociti...

In addition, this still causes a wave of excitement for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20090822000818im_/http://geociti...

First one lightened me up! And last one made me think how artful these things were, nowadays we just get silly, nonsensical and meaningless illustrations in half the pages.

I was a bit older, but I definitely had a page prominently featuring the running moose from https://gifcities.org/?q=moose

Nice to see that https://www.flamingtext.com is still around, and basically the same as I remember it (plus some options to pay for your logo).

Wow, I haven't thought about that site in quite awhile. I used to use it heavily.

https://cooltext.com/ is also a classic

>In addition, this still causes a wave of excitement for me [netscape gif]

Haha, crazy how that stirred something in me too. Very nostalgic. We were probably around the same age.

These gifs are meant to go along side web content in the 90s. They aren't sufficient to stand by itself as a social media post, so they have no plane on the modern web and so we don't see them anymore.

Would be interesting if theres a rank list by frequency/popularity.

Searched for "torch" and first result was the one I had on my geocities page. Brought a smile to my face

The search results for Xfiles has something I wasn't expecting there.

Looking through some of these really makes me curious about the context.

They happily launch all this stuff and just flat out refuse to reply to many requests asking for pages of mine they've archived to be removed.

I've added specific X- headers in my HTTP headers to prove I own the website and have authority to request this etc.

Nothing.

It really annoys me everyone loves them and praises them, but they won't even do the simplest of simple things to do the right thing.

And then when I say this, people defend them with "They have no people/time" yet they manage to produce things like what's linked.

Which is quite cool.

But still, do the basics please IA.

What did you want taken down?

Personal diary that's been scraped. I stuffed up robots.txt for a few months and so it got scraped. 100% my mistake. There's nothing sensitive etc there, I'm fully aware if I publish something I can't unpublish it. I would like it removed though. It's my content and I'd like it to not be archived without my consent.

(2016)

The associated blog post from the team at the time:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/01/gifcities-the-geocities-...

gifcities.org by Internet Archive – search for GIFs scraped off geocities sites