Awesome and AutoAwesome
I visit Blingee.com a lot these days, because I miss the wildness of Hyves and because there so many new GIFs around made with a new Google tool — AutoAwesome — that automatically adds a snow fall...
View ArticleThe Dancing Girl GIF edited for Thongchai “Bird” McIntyre
As you may remember one of the most exciting facts about the dancing girl GIF is that there is a blinking pixel next to her left leg. It was forgotten there by it’s author Chuck Pointer. If you can’t...
View ArticleGIFs, Animated GIFs and GIFs formerly known as Animated
We live in a world where people say “GIF”, but mean “Animated GIF”. In the 1990’s, and during the first years of the new century — or lets say before this format’s glorious comeback — there were two...
View Article“All the animations were mine. None of the graphics were.”
As mentioned in the post about the earliest under construction signs, there is not much sense in knowing what exactly was the first under construction sign or rainbow bar and who exactly created them....
View ArticleDreaming The Chinese Web
“Dreaming the Chinese Web (1996-1997)” is a magic series of nine 800×600 GIF animations composed with graphic elements sampled from the first year of GB2312 GeoCities. The compositions preserve the...
View Article“…as if there is something behind the browser”
This post is to announce a new piece of performative restoration, made by Tara Donovan-Achi, a student in the Traditions and Revolutions project at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, led by Dragan Espenschied...
View ArticleIt’s Christmas Time
It is my special joy to announce that this year for the first time the GeoCities Research Institute got its own advent calendar. 24 doors from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive are waiting to be...
View ArticleDancing Girl: new facts
Suddenly! An answer from Jeremy Penner to my almost 6(!) years old question! @GIFmodel Dancing Girl origin puzzle piece: "MSP 85" signature suggests original artist was MacroMind's Mark Pierce?...
View ArticleOral History: Audrey Witters
⚠️ Some GIF mentioned in the text have a limited number of loops. Consider hard refresh to see them in action again. MetaTools web team Christmas party, 1995. Front row, left to right: Audrey Witters,...
View ArticlePerpetual Calendar
Perpetual Calendar builds upon the rich digital folklore tradition to start a day on your social network by wishing each other a good one in the form of an image, often animated, and most likely...
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