The GeoCities Graveyard

This is the most hypnotic, ugly, mesmerizing, sad, and oddly beautiful thing you may see today. Well, this afternoon. Daily Dot:

It's not just the world's most complete collection of animated GIFs, it's a repository of abandoned sites, thanks to a browser emulator that pulls up archived versions of long-abandoned sites. Ugly? That's a matter of opinion.

That's true, but it doesn't argue against the hellishness of the design. Some of us were trying to make nice clean sites back in 1999, and didn't have blood-dripping skulls or eternally laboring Under Construction workers. In retrospect, it all looks like a new medium was designed entirely by ten-year-olds.