Back when Gifs were glorious handmade works of art and imagination instead of clips from tiktok and reality television made to sass people on social media.
>>6147399They are all so tacky but I love it.
This was the site to get tons of 90s gifs but I think the site has finally retired for good.http://www.animated-gifs.fr/index.php
It seems like you're looking for something hyper-specific so I won't disrupt the thread with other old gifs, bump for good taste though.
Why do these make me feel something?
>>6147611Probably because they’re gifs that are handmade works of art that use the aesthetics of classic fantasy and science fiction art.
>>6147669no that's not it.
>>6148064i member when that image in the ball was creepypasta meta
Comfy thraed
Is there an archive for these? Where did you find them?
>>6148456There ishttps://gifcities.org/Though there’s probably a lot that weren’t archived seeing as only 1/8 TB of Geocities was saved.
>>6148459Thank you. This is beautiful.
>>6148463No problem
quite enjoying this thread, thanks op
>>6147399sovl
beautiful stuff. makes me long for the old internet, OP
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>>6147669>handmadedon't use words you don't understand. you probably mean bespoke.
>>6149834Excuse me Captain Pedantic.
My grandma and uncle used to spend hours making these things with software I'm pretty sure was intended for an entirely different purpose. Still they're kinda charming
>it's all dragons and orbswere you even there?
>>6150141
>>6150141I was there in fact I spent a great deal of time in my boarding school browsing Geocities. I was only posting the epic fantasy gifs I found because to me they represent how uniquely artistic gifs used to be as opposed to modern gifs which are just ripped straight from other sources. It’s not all dragons and crystal balls I’ve posted some other material as well.
>>6149875What software did they use? Was it Fireworks 3? Also how did they make some of these gifs with the moving wings, tails or other parts? I imagine that it’s not that easy.
>>6150320Sorry I couldn't tell you the details, just that it seemed really tedious. I was pretty young and didn't know much about computers, but my uncle taught me how to pirate video games so that was cool
>>6150141This.What’s with these threads that claim to be “best of nostalgia” and then the most obscure random shit?No examples of flaming text or buttons? Two skeletons? No rotating anything?><p onclick=“onlclick()”>Click Here!</p>If you didn’t spend hours and hours in photoshop (paint) making buttons and retyping onclick offclick 400 times were you even there?
>>6150674They’re epic fantasy art in gif form that required real skill to make not obscure random shit these gifs showed the artistic skill that went into old gifs. It also shows why it’s so horrible that only 1TB of geocities was saved because this is the kind of brilliant art that hasn’t been fully preserved whereas the gifs that are clips taken from trash media to sass people are archived in the Library of Congress with the rest of twitter.They are sites that are still around today where you can make flaming text so it’s that can still be made easily.
>>6150729You are absolutely full of shit. You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!Don’t speak to me as if you were there or that as if I wasn’t.
>>6151026I don’t speak as if I wasn’t there because I most certainly was. I spent weeks browsing Geocities when I was at my boarding school, it was my bread and butter. These sites mean a great deal to me and I was distraught when Geocities was taken down with only an 1/8th being saved and I still am.
>>6151030>spent weeks>boarding school Son, I have gifs older than you. I spent years on geocities. I was part of no less than three webgroups. A webgroup was an interlinked group of friends with similar interests who made a page together (typically with a shared message board of guestbook) dating back to tripod, angelfire, and fucking homestead.com. Things like social media or google didn’t even fucking exist then. Your gifs are cool and nostalgia inducing but they aren’t period and I promise I’ve spent more time logging into yahoo than you ever could imagine.
>>6151045I’m 36 so there’s no way that you have gifs older than me unless you started collecting them in the 80’s. I am well aware that social media didn’t exist then I was there! My gifs come from the Internet Archive itself the gif search itself links to the sites they were archived from.https://gifcities.org/search?q=Norse+Myth&offset=0&page_size=200Whilst I didn’t making make any sites myself I spent pretty much my entire online time at boarding school browsing such sites. So my overall hours going through such sites would have totalled in weeks.
>>6151054nta but the older kids passed around what they called 'gifts', which were 3.5" floppies containing gifs of naked ladies. this would've been around 1990.I also had a few angelfire and geocities sites, was part of link rings, etc. good times.
>>6147468oh wow. The grand-daddy of them all, by the inventor of the animated GIF extension. (I wonder if their logo was the actual first animated GIF? Probably something simpler for testing...)
>>6152475Looking it up, CompuServe created this animation to test out the new extension
hey look it's more fucking orbs
i liked the orbs...
>>6152972Fuck you, orbs are cool. I hope there's like thirty more, each with a dope ass wizard and dragon with titties.
next thread will forbid dragons and orbs under the threat of defenestration
>>6158627There’s no way this was made in the geocities era.
>>6159082https://web.archive.org/web/20091022190740/http://geocities.com/rainamem/index.html
>>6159229>2009so, not in the geocities era.
>>61597492009 was the date it was archived on not the date it was made. The archive team desperately scrambled to save everything at the last minute when it was announced that Geocities was being destroyed. If they had been obsessively archiving every page of Geocities thousands of times like they do with Wikipedia before it was even announced that it was being purged then perhaps we would have had all of Geocities preserved instead of only 1/8th. Then again Geocities wasn’t pushing the same agenda that Wikipedia has been.
>>6147399Shiiiieeet
>>6160234if its own hit counter is anything to go by (which is obviously nowhere near certain) then the page had had 6 hits by 2009. it may not have been around for long before that archive date. I stand by the assertion that the gif is too polished and thus is not from the geocities era.
more orbs, fucking sweet
I had a store in Second Life where I sold animated paintings and doodads. This was my best seller, with the white background carefully rendered transparent with a mask saved as a targa file.
And this was my shop sign.
>>6161602Oops.
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