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MediaFaro MagazineMy journey to the heart of the forgotten internet.Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing.But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250803-my-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250803-my-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Websites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Websites</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dialup</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/EBaumsWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EBaumsWorld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

Jack C.Exercising a bit of early-2000s <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> design freedom by whipping up a little page to invite friends to play my new <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pinball</a> machine when it finally arrives. It's fun not using even the simplest build step and just manually writing <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a> and <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#css</a> I can see where things would get cumbersome if I were trying to maintain consistency across many pages, but having no build tools to wrestle with is a joy.<a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/WeekendProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WeekendProject</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Webdev</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geocities</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/2000s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#2000s</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/EvilDeadPinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvilDeadPinball</a>

GripNews🌘 Geocities 背景素材集 ~ | 像素月塵 ➤ 重溫網頁黃金時代的視覺回憶 ✤ <a href="https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles</a> 這篇文章匯集了大量Geocities時代網站常用的背景素材，包含各種顏色、圖案與主題。作者整理了黑、藍、棕等顏色的使用次數，以及各種紋理如動物紋、格子、大理石等，甚至包含奇幻、音樂、宗教等主題，總計超過300種素材。作者建議以新分頁開啟圖片，以便完整觀看，並說明這些素材設計用於單邊背景。 + 哇，這些背景讓我想起以前自己做網站的時光了！Geocities 真的有種獨特的魅力。 + 這麼多素材，簡直是網頁設計師的寶庫，可以激發很多創意。 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E7%B6%B2%E9%A0%81%E8%A8%AD%E8%A8%88" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#網頁設計</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E6%87%B7%E8%88%8A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#懷舊</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geocities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E8%83%8C%E6%99%AF%E7%B4%A0%E6%9D%90" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#背景素材</a>

SkarfesterEsta página se define como "una carta de amor al viejo internet" y consiste en un collage de gif animados, fondos e incluso sonidos recopilados de páginas web personales de finales de los noventa y principios de los dosmiles. Yo no la conocía y es una maravilla. <a href="https://www.cameronsworld.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cameronsworld.net/</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90s</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/00s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#00s</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/oldInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldInternet</a>

⸸Punished Venom Nova⸸lol <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/geocities" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/wafrn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wafrn</a>

Soliman HindyOh dear god... I just found this website <a href="https://geocities.restorativland.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://geocities.restorativland.org/</a>Geocities. Wow. The old fashion web when I was a teenager.<a href="https://mastodon.lovetux.net/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.lovetux.net/tags/memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#memories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.lovetux.net/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>

Joe Crawford"GIFs, seriously" ~ wherein I talk about GIFs a bit! <a href="https://artlung.com/blog/2025/06/25/gifs-seriously/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://artlung.com/blog/2025/06/25/gifs-seriously/</a><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/gif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gif</a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indieweb</a>...and shout out to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@voidmstr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@voidmstr</a>

MrGrumpyMonkeyWhat's a good night from my point of view?* 20mg of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cannabis</a> edible * <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackSunEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackSunEmpire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrumAndBass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrumAndBass</a> * Calling out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> bullshit * Calling out Human Laziness, while being the laziest SOB on the planet * Surrounded by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CatsOfMastodon</a> * Eating fresh hamburgers and grapes * The ability to share nonsense, on the best social media system since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> with anyone else using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> What else does anyone need? My life is good. I hope everyone else is having a good life too. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boost</a>

Kevin Driscoll 📳yoooo massive update to the GIFcities search engine for all of your GIF89a needs <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/</a>start here: <a href="https://gifcities.org/search?q=dancing+penguin&offset=0&page_size=200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gifcities.org/search?q=dancing+penguin&offset=0&page_size=200</a><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/gif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gif</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/internetarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internetarchive</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a>

David Esteve<a href="https://mastotut.cat/tags/GifCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GifCities</a>The <a href="https://mastotut.cat/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geocities</a> Animated <a href="https://mastotut.cat/tags/Gif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gif</a> Search from <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@internetarchive</a><a href="https://gifcities.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gifcities.org/</a>

Andres Bravo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LINUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LINUX</a> POWER <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gif</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GifCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GifCities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Archive</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseInternet Archive Blog: Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine!. “We are excited to announce a new version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! GifCities was a special project of Internet Archive originally done as part of our 20th Anniversary in 2016 to highlight and celebrate fun aspects […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/internet-archive-blog-keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/internet-archive-blog-keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/</a>

YHANCI~1.TXTToday on OneTerabyteOfKilobyteAge, the Boolean Set Operations Project🔗 <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/786255423526371328/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/786255423526371328/</a><a href="https://thereisno.computer/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> <a href="https://thereisno.computer/tags/3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3D</a>

George MacgregorTime travel! Love the retro search UI. Terrific work <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@internetarchive</a>!Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/GIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GIF</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a>

Marcel SIneM(S)USObacht: Die GIFs von <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geocities</a> kommen zurück | heise online <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/GIFs-galore-Neue-Suchmaschine-fuer-gerettete-GIF-10439451.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/GIFs-galore-Neue-Suchmaschine-fuer-gerettete-GIF-10439451.html</a>

Stefan Bohacek"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."<a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheWeb</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a>

Pyrzout :vm:Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/internetarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internetarchive</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/internethacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internethacks</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/earlyinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlyinternet</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/rasberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rasberrypi</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proxy</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>

IT NewsWayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/internetarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internetarchive</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/internethacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internethacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/earlyinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlyinternet</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/rasberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rasberrypi</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proxy</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>

YHANCI~1.TXTToday on OneTerabyteOfKilobyteAge🔗 <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/784555473009508352" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/784555473009508352</a><a href="https://thereisno.computer/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geocities</a> <a href="https://thereisno.computer/tags/oneterabyteofkilobyteage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OneTerabyteOfKilobyteAge</a>

f1r3Homepage mit Baustellenschild? Willkommen bei <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a>

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