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Geocities Backgrounds

https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/backgroundsindex
128•marcodiego•2d ago
https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles

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486sx33•7h ago
Geocities was pretty darn cool. My very first website was there but just figuring the place out, the neighborhoods and the depth of the place was like a new adventure at the time. I chose area51
bityard•3h ago
Geocities hosted my second website, my first one was somewhere on CompuServe I think? I had a GeoCities site for quite a few years, somewhere at the top level of SiliconValley. I can't remember the 4-digit number and I've never been able to find it in any of the archives just by searching for it. (I likely deleted it some time in the early 2000's.)
sejje•3h ago
I lost my first website, it was on angel fire.

Frames layout, goldeneye fanboy page.

They have a lot of the old sites, but not mine.

Gualdrapo•7h ago
As a person that loves tiled desktop wallpaper backgrounds, thank you
medstrom•6h ago
Just found that GNOME seems to have lost support for tiled wallpapers...

Unfixed for years https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1473

chromehearts•7h ago
Wish I found this sooner; my first website I made many years ago contains 2 or 3 background images which I also found on various neocity sites (yungztrunks.de)
righthand•7h ago
Can’t tap tiles to change background on Firefox iOS.
medstrom•6h ago
Long-press and download the image?
righthand•6h ago
Analog browsing, wouldn’t that just download the thumbnail not the actual gif?
inanutshellus•6h ago
Those ain' thumbnails, whippersnapper. Them's the whole image.
righthand•6h ago
Interesting. From the mobile view it appears the page has a right side menu with preview options of all the backgrounds with the space background set as the default tile but I guess I’m misinterpreting the page UI.
nemomarx•5h ago
The preview is probably just one imagine that would be tiled to create a full background. Isn't that how all backgrounds and wallpapers used to work?
inanutshellus•2h ago
Correct, you're thinking with modern-UI brain.

It's just a page template and the content of the particular page is a long list of images. No javascript to do fancy stuff. Just a collection of backgrounds the dude found.

Actually, this page is already "advanced" for a Geocities site, because the starry night pattern is for the left-gutter next to the site's content, and then there's an easy-on-the-eyes background behind the real content. Normal Geocities would just have one super duper beautiful and impossible-to-read-on background.

(Oh, and you wouldn't /also/ do that cool background on the right side too because... "who knows how to figure out a floating left side border image?! that's basically impossible.") ;)

crtasm•5h ago
if you can access the console, this adds that functionality:

  document.body.addEventListener('click', function(e) { if (e.target.nodeName == 'IMG') { document.body.style.backgroundImage = `url("${e.target.src}")`; document.body.style.backgroundRepeat = 'repeat'; } });
biofox•7h ago
They also make for great retro PowerPoint backgrounds :)
luc_•6h ago
bless this mess
giancarlostoro•6h ago
Page doesn't load correctly for me, they seem to be hosting the images in a sketchy looking domain (I'm sure its not actually sketchy), corporate firewall is ruining my retro nostalgic experience.
marcodiego•5h ago
Actually, the correct index is this one: https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/b...
jihadjihad•4h ago
@dang can we update the post's URL to this one? It seems more relevant and usable.
medstrom•3h ago
I found it much less striking. The original link is perfect -- and subjectively, I find it more "usable" that it puts everything on a single page.
dang•2h ago
Ok, I've put that link in the top text so people can access both.
sp0rk•2h ago
This page only contains links to about half of the backgrounds present on the page that is linked currently.
dang•2h ago
Changed from https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles. Thanks!
luckystarr•3h ago
That page can't be very old because it doesn't use any frames!
SpecialistK•3h ago
I love these - I wonder if anyone has put them together in an archive to download all at once?
medstrom•2h ago
In the spirit of "analog browsing", there is always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall
jaynate•3h ago
Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back then (90s). Just with a lot more layers of libraries today.
giantrobot•2h ago
A great thing about the Web is it can still be programmed just like it was thirty years ago. Unless you actually need an application a lot of web tooling and libraries are a waste of time. It's a great medium for actual documents.
spennant•1h ago
What? No love for Perl scripts in cgi-bin/ ?
simoneau•3h ago
I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?
p3rls•2h ago
yeahhh, but did you have a cool cjb.net redirect to show your friends in the progs channel?
tsumnia•1h ago
Dear Web Developers: THIS is what I want for surfing the World Wide Web. Simple UI, maybe some tiled gifs, and that's it!

Stop all the corpo-brutalist nonsense and give me back my flame gifs!

standardUser•1h ago
I miss having my own little website. It wasn't a blog or even a weblog because those words didn't exist yet. I especially miss the mix of icons and widgets I'd curate at the bottom of the page, the most important of which was the counter (which was mostly counting my own visit to my own page). This was probably around 1994 when I was 12 or 13.
gopher2000•52m ago
Is there a way to dig up old GeoCities pages? My only thought is to remember the URL and get it from internet archive but I can't remember my 4 digit number. I think I was in the "Baja" area.
miffe•15m ago
Anyone remember a software to generate images such as these?

I think it was called something like Terralogic Texture Maker (ttm.exe) and I've been looking for it for years.

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https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/backgroundsindex
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