But that’s the price of going to a museum – sudden and terrible crippling death twitching in the face of historical artifacts. We all have to live with that risk.

—Jason Scott on the possibility of loading a page full of ‘under construction’ animated GIFs crashing your browser. Scott, in the process of archiving Geocities before it shuffles off this mortal coil in a few weeks time, has assembled quite a collection of this once ubiquitous web totem.