The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities ...

During the 1990s, Web-hosting service GeoCities was one of the most visited sites on the Internet. The site was considered to be the first step toward the modern-day social network, with people ...

The GifCities project lets you relive the web's early days with a staggering collection of animated images. Remember the dancing baby? Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who ...

Our own Owen Williams wrote recently with a wistful tone about the glorious old Web age of Geocities. I suspect he – and probably you, since you clicked on this story – will really like Cameron’s ...

We like to think that things on the internet live forever, that future scholars will someday write our histories through our pithiest tweets and most insightful Disqus comments. But the truth is it ...

When I was 12, I spent an entire year learning HTML so I could build my own websites and create the ultimate repository of jokes on the internet. In my quest to learn as many cool developer tricks as ...

Just what we needed: the return of animated GIFs from Geocities. A new search engine from the Internet Archive is digging through this pile of rubble. It is unashamedly called GifCities and unearths ...

It wasn’t long ago that we heard about the imminent demise of one of the net’s most infamous and venerable sites: Geocities. At the time, we could see the pendulum hanging from the rafters, but ...

In 1987, an engineer named Steve Wilhite at the internet service provider Compuserve invented a compression algorithm to make downloading and sending images through the web easier—effectively creating ...

Web comic xkcd is sporting a fresh redesign Monday morning, paying tribute to the free web-hosting service GeoCities. Yahoo, which bought GeoCities in 1999 for $3.5 billion dollars, is shutting down ...