Nostalgic Animated Gifs

This page will include a collection of .gifs I remember from the early web, in addition to links for where I found them.

If you want to use the animation controls on your own website, check out the Accessible Gif Toggle page where I share code and demos.

Vivid Memories of Animated GIFs

This page will likely only appeal to a very narrow age bracket. My experience with the early web was browsing fan-sites for my favorite TV-shows at the time, Pokemon and Digimon - specifically around 2001-2002 which was the time Digimon Tamers was airing on Fox Kids.

I very vividly remember searching and saving pages and pages of Pokemon and Digimon .gifs so I went looking for them again and found a good number of them along with some Kao-ani. So this page is a small trip down memory lane for me.

Animation Controls

Animations are turned off by default. Instructions:

Hover your mouse over individual GIF images to animate them
Use keyboard-presses (tab and shift+tab) to sequentially animate individual GIF images
Use the Animation Toggle button below to turn them all on (or off) at once

Kao-ani

Pokemon

Digimon

Weblinks

Le Monde Des Kaoani A collection of Kao-ani ('anime face') gifs, organised by category. You do not need to be able to speak french to browse this site.

Gif Cities A searchable database of .gifs from old Geocities websites.

Original Sources

I followed the links from GifCities to some of the original sources from Geocities.