GIFTube, welcome back to the 90's internet style

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GIFTube, welcome back to the 90's internet style

by Chris Gilmer Oct 31st 2007

Remember that craze back in the early days of the internet? The early 90's. You remember, the time when the animated gif was a cult phenomenon? Well, like pogs, they are back.

Move over YouTube, GIFTube is your one stop shop for everything animated gif. Users upload and share their creations or findings to make their MySpace pages, websites and blogs as flashy as they can through the provided web 2.0 embed code. Have a snazzy GIF or something saved from the internets early days? Submit it for entry into the directory. But please, do us all a favor and just browse the site, do not use these on your website. Thanks!

It seems that the new age of animated GIF's drops the flashy text and symbols in favor of some questionable adult GIF's on this site. So browse the GIF library at your own discretion.

Tags: blog, design, embed, gif, internet, website

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marco said 11:03AM on 10-31-2007

At what point did you decide to venture out of your cave? :) These things have been around since then- and in great many numbers. a good collection : http://www.virb.com/groups/71422477. Wired even did an article a couple of months ago on the phenomenon...

Francis said 11:05AM on 10-31-2007

4chan's been doing for 4 years now.

nicky said 11:33AM on 10-31-2007

Nice site. Gif is the new Video.

Shibathedog said 1:07PM on 10-31-2007

So its like YTMND but smaller and moderated more?

Sounds boring :P

Cool find anyway though.

Gil Creque said 3:15PM on 10-31-2007

Try http://journalpics.net/

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