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Retro mode assets
The retro toggle flips the site into a Cameron’s World / GeoCities-era homage.
All animated GIFs are real period artifacts originally sourced from gifcities.org (Internet Archive’s index of GeoCities GIFs). They’ve been downloaded to files/retro/gifs/ and are served locally — no third-party dependencies at runtime.
Where GIFs are referenced
| File | What it contains |
|---|---|
js/retro.js (DECO_URLS) |
80 clip-art GIFs used as floating decorations (planets, ufos, mountains, frogs, dogs, etc.) |
_includes/retro/footer.html |
Hit counter, under-construction sign, webring, badges, divider rules, guestbook icons |
_includes/retro/header.html |
Top-of-page rainbow dividers |
_includes/retro/about.html |
Welcome banner, hobby icons, link arrows, “ALL ABOUT ME” divider rules |
Adding or replacing GIFs
To find new ones, browse https://gifcities.org/?q=YOUR+QUERY and copy the URL of any result. Download it to files/retro/gifs/ and reference it from the file you’re editing.
Filtering for clip-art-sized GIFs
The decoration pool was filtered to drop banners, HD photos, and broken tiny GIFs using this rule:
- width ≤ 200px AND height ≤ 200px
- aspect ratio ≤ 2.5:1
- size ≥ 1500 bytes
If you add new URLs to DECO_URLS, this filter is documented as the criterion.
Music (not wired)
To add a MIDI player: drop theme.mid in this directory and add an opt-in button to the footer that calls new Audio('/files/retro/theme.mid').play(). Do not autoplay — modern browsers block it and it’s user-hostile.
Re-fetching from gifcities (if you ever wipe the gifs/ folder)
# from repo root
mkdir -p files/retro/gifs
grep -rohE '/files/retro/gifs/[A-Z0-9]+\.gif' \
js/retro.js _includes/retro/*.html \
| sort -u \
| while read path; do
name=$(basename "$path")
[ -f "files/retro/gifs/$name" ] || curl -sL "https://blob.gifcities.org/gifcities/$name" -o "files/retro/gifs/$name"
done
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