Keep on GIFin’ — GifCities, the animated GIF search engine
June 13, 2025 8:14 AM Subscribe
The Internet Archive announces a new version of GifCities, their animated GIF search engine. It now has several new advanced search features. Previously in 2016 on the blue.
Also related to these interests: the Winamp Skin Museum (previously), the 88x31 gif collection, another 88x31 archive on hellnet.work (previously), another 88x31 archive on neocities, a collection of Netscape Now gifs, and Under Construction gifs on textfiles.com.
If audio is more your thing, there is the BBC sound effects library (previously), the VGmusic.com midi collection.
Also related to these interests: the Winamp Skin Museum (previously), the 88x31 gif collection, another 88x31 archive on hellnet.work (previously), another 88x31 archive on neocities, a collection of Netscape Now gifs, and Under Construction gifs on textfiles.com.
If audio is more your thing, there is the BBC sound effects library (previously), the VGmusic.com midi collection.
On my first and only visit, I got this:
posted by Thorzdad at 8:35 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]
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posted by Thorzdad at 8:35 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]
GifCities’s new semantic search index used a model called CLIP-ViT L/14 to analyze each frame of the GIFs and searching applies a “nearest neighbors algorithm” to find GIFs that match a vectorized query, allowing you to enter nuanced searches like “blue sparkling border‘ or (everybody’s favorite performing rodent) ‘”dancing hamster” and get matching results. Need more wolf snowglobe GIFs in your life? Yes, you do. Here ya go.
Possibly the most useful application of AI models ever devised
posted by BungaDunga at 9:36 AM on June 13
Possibly the most useful application of AI models ever devised
posted by BungaDunga at 9:36 AM on June 13
(CLIP-ViT is not an LLM but I think does use Transformers as part of the architecture, so it's closely related technologically)
posted by BungaDunga at 9:41 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]
posted by BungaDunga at 9:41 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]
anyway has anyone done a museum of PHPBB forum emoticons and smilies? they seem to be a lost art
posted by BungaDunga at 9:48 AM on June 13
posted by BungaDunga at 9:48 AM on June 13
It took me a while, but I finally found exactly the under construction GIFs I needed. These are great, thanks! I just added a w3c CSS "button", which is what I call those 88x31 ones. Any idea what the history on those is? here's some
I remember this one, too! Also, TF?
posted by nTeleKy at 4:21 AM on June 14
I remember this one, too! Also, TF?
posted by nTeleKy at 4:21 AM on June 14
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