A collection of the very first animated gifs on the Web 1991-1995
Gregory Alan Bolcer stashed this in Digital Content
Apparently so old they won't post correctly! Just a little bit of Web history....
Stashed in: Awesome, History of Tech!, About GIFs, Gifs of Glory, History
I use to have a really cool one on my Geocities page, guy in a black suit, hat and glasses, and he bends down to his right, as he snaps his fingers. Someday, I'm going to look around on drives, and see if I can resurrect that page, see if any links still work ;)
I think I was in Athen's, and would it have been my real name? Janill Bremmeyer (maiden name)? or Janillb, or maybe Orcana (this was before 95, so hard to remember 20 years ago! ;)
Could be LadyG, or Lady Godiva (I was young lol)
Well, I just learned some history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/
Turns out they have a couple of geocities sites listed, but not that one.
I've always thought I might have the pages saved as files on an old hard drive, somewhere around here, but that computer might be long gone.
and how selective they are about what they will toss out, and what they will hold onto! Facebook has my stuff in perpetuity, but Webshots threw all my pictures away, MyYahoo cleared my whole calendar after I was inactive for 1 year (lost about 12+ years of data), and I had forgotten all about Geocities. So the internet is very selective about what it wants to hold onto.
I think the rule is: consider anything on Google or Facebook forever; everywhere else, not so much.
I found the first guitar image above on archive.org on a deeply linked goecities.com page, but for the life of me, everything comes up as not archived. No only is it selective on what it holds on to, it has gaping holes of history. I love archive.org. Google should have a history search engine too.
Perhaps you can plant seeds in archive.org for the digital archeologists 300 years from now?
7:54 AM Jan 25 2014