What is this?

GIF Dance Party is a scene creator website, set in the form of an interactive dance floor, The site uses transparent gifs of various people and characters dancing, It also features a few songs that can be changed in the website, It was viral back when it first came out, with a few sites covering on the website.

Who originally created this?

Fuzzy Wobble originally created the website for a Humor & Code project at Parsons School of Design & Technolgoy, Patrick Brandt also helped with some of the code and Boomer removed the backgrounds back when creating transparent gifs were still new.

When did this website first released?

GIF Dance Party was first hosted on gifdanceparty.com on March 2013, Later when the site became gifdanceparty.giphy.com in August 2014, Version 2 was released on June 2016, and overhauled the site quite a bit, Even later in November 2018, a new domain gifparty.dance was made, complete with a new look and version, The site shutdown in 2023

There were 3 reskins that was known to exist throughout the site's life, Doggy GIF Dance Party which was made for Proximity released in 2014 on doggifparty.ca which focused on dogs, IDEO 101 GIF Dance Party, released in 2013 on fuzzywobble.com/projects/101 and focused on introducing members of the IDEO office in Boston, and Working Not Working GIF Dance Party, released in 2015 on wnotw.gifdanceparty.com which was based on Working Not Working's event featuring them, These versions are considered partially found as the sites are broken due to a couples files that is needed for the site not archived in that site.

Why is there 3 versions of what's basically the same thing?

GIF Dance Party went through a lot of changes throughout it's run, This site gives you all of those versions the site went under.

The first version lasted from March 2013 to May 2016, This was the original version of the site, It went through a lot of changes and redesigns throughout the 3 year run, The site uses the last version of this design.

The second version lasted from June 2016 to October 2018, It's basically the same as Version 1, but it overhauled the code of the site, and a few design changes as well like a few additional gifs

The third and final version lasted from November 2018 to June 2023, The entire UI was revamped in this version and it had more gifs.

When I go to gifdanceparty.com now, I see this photo booth thing, what's that about?

GIF Dance Party became a interactive dance experience live on May 2015, It can be installed by a few parties, It functions and looks like the website, but with a few additional gifs made for these installations.

How do I use it?

Using the site is simple to use.

You can add a dancer by going to the dancers tab, When highlighting a dancer, You can remove them, flip them to the other side, put them back or the front, resize and even clone them, They can also be dragged around.

To change the music that's currently playing, Click on the music button and it would automatically change the song (for V2 and V3, in V1, There's a dropdown menu instead) There's a variety of songs in the list.

Changing the dancefloors is going to the scene button.

Why WOULD you bring back and recreate this site?

All 3 versions of the GIF Dance Party haven't really been archived all that well in the Wayback Machine, sure, You can use the site on Wayback, but they're all missing a couple of gifs in someway, Mainly for later V1 dancers and most of V2 and V3, So I searched for most of the missing gifs based on the GIF Dance Party Google extension, Reverse Image searches on a couple of search engines and Tineye, The end result is that I ended up majority of the gifs, There were 4-5 that I could not find, So I replaced them with new gifs, I also added all of the gifs from all eras into all of the eras of the sites, even the ones only on the Chrome extension

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