Reddit. Unfortunately it's defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.
Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
Cracked had a 10/10 movie podcast that was stopped abruptly (after it was bought up & butchered ,laying off like 100 staff) & it was the best movie podcast.
No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean the online file storage (would now be called 'cloud' storage) site that it was before it died and Tom bought the domain.
It had an astounding 300MB of space available for free, much more than the contemporary competition.
Of course now there's Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Myspace was just too far ahead of their time.
I used to love IMDB before it got taken over. Especially the old forums where pretty much every TV show, every actor, etc... all had a forum on their page to discuss.
I would spend hours on there discussing the latest episodes of BSG, or Lost, or what have you. It was legitimately a water cooler for television watchers when no one in the real world shared the same television interests as me.
For Lost, the number of debates during that first couple seasons about what the connection would be in Locke and Hume being named after philosophers who wrote on human nature.
Or basically an easy place to go and discuss any thoughts or questions about a movie you just watched, or to find out if anyone else felt like an actor's performance was good/bad/etc...
It was just a fun place to hang out for a movie/TV buff. When they took it away, I was pretty sad.
Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it's still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.
I don't know about number one, but a few that I miss.
freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.
newegg.com --- computer components retailer --- is still around, but it doesn't hold the spot it once did.
bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.
A few "hosting" sites that went down with a lot of user-created content. No one thing was amazing, maybe, but it produced a lot of dangling links. Geocities: "At least 38 million pages, most written by users, were displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated.[7] The GeoCities Japan version of the service lasted until March 31, 2019.[8]". AngelFire. Tripod. Apparently the latter two are still around in some limited form.
Kaleidoscope.net, a site featuring themes for the eponymous classic MacOS themeing software package. They did a good job of generating theme previews. Fun to browse through.
Digg.com used to be my absolute favorite. Then it got bought out by a company who turned it into a content farm and it eventually died out. Now it's back and owned by Kevin Rose again, and I do like it a lot better than Reddit, but I still spend more time on Piefed these days.
I tried to join when I got banned from Reddit permanently after like 12 years for ban evasion (using a throway account). I joined the waiting list for an invite but still waiting. That's when I discovered Lemmy, which I'm quite liking. Never heard of Piefed. Is it similar?
It's still invite only for now but I'd imagine it has to be getting close to the public release. If I had any invite codes left I woulda sent you one! We might get more pretty soon though. If so I'll dm you one but idk when they're coming. And piefed is pretty much Lemmy, only it's powered by Python instead of Rust and it has more moderation features. Pretty similar experience though. You're not really missing anything if you're already on Lemmy. Right now, Lemmy/Piefed are definitely more active and mature than Digg. It looks pretty slick but there aren't a whole lot of users yet. I do like it, I just like it here better right now.
Thanks for the info - yes, Lemmy's worked out pretty well so far and it's given me a chance to use the Boost app again, which was my favourite way to use Reddit anyway. Be cool to check out Digg when it's ready, but Lemmy has definitely filled a gap!
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I wouldn't be on Lemmy today if it weren't for Digg committing suicide, forcing everyone to switch to reddit. And then reddit went full retard with the 3rd party app thing, so here I am.
mspaintadventures.com, home to the Homestuck web"comic" (it's very mixed-media) among others. It still exists, but doesn't work properly, in part because Homestuck was heavily built on flash animations.
stile project went from a collection of bafflingly weird shit to a shitty porn site.
Yeah, there was a lot of porn before, but it wasn't really the main focus- it was basically a collection of shock value pics & videos that probably played a big part in me becoming desensitized... It was my source of "Eh, I've seen worse"
The old Cartoon Network website. Used to play a lot of flash games on there back in the day, probably like most every other person who had that channel.
I would say Nitrome, but they're still alive even if they're a shell of their former self IMO.
The one where you go through the UK-ified Jump City? If so, yeah, same here. Never beat it. Might see if it's on Flashpoint and try to actually beat it some day.
I vaguely remember that one, after having looked it up because the site wasn't really working on my phone browser. That was probably a game I sucked at and thus hardly ever played.
Probably gonna look and see if Flashpoint has it, though. Looks like a good enough time waster.
Back in 1995, I was still using Gopher, when someone showed me WWW. I soon found the chatroom at Mrshowbiz.com, and was hooked to this new Internet technology.
But my favourite was Geocities. Had several sites there. They taught me HTML coding, and that there was such a thing as too many "Under construction" animated gifs.
You can still find the full gopher database for download out there. I grabbed a copy a few years ago. Got it working and got bored soon thereafter. It was the 'shit' of its day but that was many days ago.
Not favourite, but I used to use Google search almost exclusively because the results were good, and I could tell it to never show results from certain sites.
No need to tell this community the sad state of affairs it's in now...
The SciFi channel forums used to have a "caption this" page where they had stills from their channel's live feed people could post quips about. That was back when they aired MST3K.
I used to spend hours watching people try to be funny.
I miss the old SciFi channel website. The chatrooms there are where my life on the internet began. Too much time spent chatting about this weeks episode of Sliders or when there was a petition because they cancelled MST3K and we fought to get it back.
Not A website, but in the early modem days there used to be these things called web rings. When you were done going through one site (usually just a few short pages or a short story kind of deal back then), you clicked the 'next' button and it brought you to another random, related (usually) website. My favorite web ring was the Star Wars ring. Learned a lot of expanded universe stuff, and random fan fiction. There was one site it brought me to that told me how to use the force...still trying to make my beer come to my hand :-)
lol yeah, not the best tracker to learn on but eventually found some workarounds
I think simplest was finding heavy scene packs to import/reverify from easy generals. Less competition due to disk space requirement and better at saturating shared box ratecaps which let occasional crumbs to fall through. Worked on hdbits too IIRC.
Was a website of midi versions of video game songs and also had guitar tabs for the songs. I would legitimately just listen to those versions of the songs themselves.
Sure you could go there still now. But it's an empty husk of what it was before. Flash died without any viable replacement for all the old flash games that relied on it.
I spent a lot of time in chat rooms roughly 30 years ago. Yahoo chat rooms were fun, and also The Offspring's old website from back in the late 90s had a chat room. Also I used to get a kick out of the "Ate my balls" webring and the dance ones that started with hamster dance.
I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists... but it is not the same.
The Dark Side of the Net and Goth Girl of the Week. There use to be a goth dating site but I can't remember the name. It doesn't matter I suppose. I will be dead soon any way.
You mean those CPPS? Idk about those… seems there were plenty of controversies around them. I miss the OG. A proper experience, safe for the youngins. These CPPS seem to have shown themselves as rather the opposite, actively dangerous to them. I'm not a youngin anymore, but still
It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone's experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).
Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.
There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.
I was hoping someone else would say Bolt! That was such a great website way back. The message boards and games were so much fun. I spent way too many hours behind a computer at the library specifically to go on that website.
I used to use the NME website, which was a weekly music paper in the UK, back in the day.
It had forums and free webmail, so I had had an nme.com address that made me feel kinda cool (I was a teenager and music was very much my identity).
Then they cancelled the webmail and that was that. All my teen emails gone forever. I'd love to get them back, and who knows,they could be sitting on a server somewhere, but I doubt it.
Oh, also Bebo. Posted a lot on that precursor to Facebook and now it's all gone.
I remember there being an app called RealPlayer that my brothers had installed on our family computer back in late 1990 or 2000. There, you select a 320pi that was streamed to you via the internet. Could that be what you're thinking of?
edit: I did some searching and this very useful Timeline of online video, which might be helpful in your search.
No, I’m not that old. YouTube existed when I was growing up but it wasn’t really huge until a bit later. Thanks for the video tho, I’ll check it.
There used to be a website called "thesmartass(dot)info". It had online emulators for old video game consoles as well as some flash games and a bunch of other stuff that I never used. The homepage also had a daily (or it might have been weekly, I've forgotten) artwork that was usually abstract but sometimes it got weird. Like, there is this one image that I sometimes think about, where it was a realistic looking image of a naked woman (or at least I think it was a woman) with a really long and flexible torso, and her torso is contorted so she fits inside a box.
I don't know when it happened but it seems like the domain has been transferred over to someone else and it's a completely different website now. Also, I did check the Wayback Machine and it is archived but it seems like it wasn't archived properly as the website is almost completely broken.
I mean, whether or not I liked Sodahead, whether or not it was good for me, and whether or not it was a good website are all questions without definitive answer, but I sure did spend my teenage years there
There used to be rotten.com, which posted extremely disturbing pictures and I don't miss that part of it. But I do miss the Rotten Library, which used to be a bastion of suppressed literature.
My old stomping grounds, the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch.
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gilokee@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 316d
I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 316d
I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
gilokee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 316d
yeah haha that was a bit annoying!
blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
They were trying to tell you to touch grass
WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 315d
Gotcha fam
(Link works like stumbleupon basically)
gilokee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
ooh, neat! ty!
chisel@piefed.social · 61 pts · 316d
Reddit. Unfortunately it's defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
The Zionists and American fascists seem to be taking it over too.
r/politics was mass censoring any coverage of the Jimmy Kimmel debacle recently.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
It was defunct long before that.
deltapi@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 316d
Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
https://homestarrunner.com/
chunes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 315d
I wanted to say this too, but yeah they are still here. And their latest cartoon is relevant too.
https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 316d
Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
https://zombo.com/
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 316d
ZOMBO COM!
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d
I make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
I hear anything is possible at that website! Anything at all! The infinite is possible! The unattainable is unknown!
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
Zombocom was and still is the only website in the world.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
You can do anything with zombo.com.. welcome to zombo.com
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 22 pts · 316d
It's not defunct tho... Newgrounds is still around.
Actually, none of my favorite websites are defunct. Something Awful, LiveJournal, and Penny-Arcade are also still going.
sirboozebum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d
Long live the old internet.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 316d
YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it's effectively dead.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
Forgot about that one
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 316d
not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 316d
Cracked had a 10/10 movie podcast that was stopped abruptly (after it was bought up & butchered ,laying off like 100 staff) & it was the best movie podcast.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 315d
i fondly remember one post once that had me in tears, about teaching somali pirates about ebay
Tedesche@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 315d
I liked them until they got political. Totally ruined their vibe.
i_ben_fine@midwest.social · 3 pts · 315d
typical dot world
oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 316d
I wouldn't say it was a number one favorite, but I feel like the internet isn't the same without
timecube.comTW: conspiracy nonsense, racism, crimes against grammar https://web.archive.org/web/20050829015921/http://www.timecube.com/
davidgro@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 315d
myspace.com
No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean the online file storage (would now be called 'cloud' storage) site that it was before it died and Tom bought the domain.
It had an astounding 300MB of space available for free, much more than the contemporary competition.
Of course now there's Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Myspace was just too far ahead of their time.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
300mb is pretty freaking decent
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 315d
Rip Stumble upon.
RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 315d
StumbleUpon
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 316d
I used to love IMDB before it got taken over. Especially the old forums where pretty much every TV show, every actor, etc... all had a forum on their page to discuss.
I would spend hours on there discussing the latest episodes of BSG, or Lost, or what have you. It was legitimately a water cooler for television watchers when no one in the real world shared the same television interests as me.
For Lost, the number of debates during that first couple seasons about what the connection would be in Locke and Hume being named after philosophers who wrote on human nature.
Or basically an easy place to go and discuss any thoughts or questions about a movie you just watched, or to find out if anyone else felt like an actor's performance was good/bad/etc...
It was just a fun place to hang out for a movie/TV buff. When they took it away, I was pretty sad.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 316d
Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it's still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 5 pts · 316d
!fark@ibbit.at
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Florida man
tal@olio.cafe · 12 pts · 316d
I don't know about number one, but a few that I miss.
freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.
newegg.com --- computer components retailer --- is still around, but it doesn't hold the spot it once did.
bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.
A few "hosting" sites that went down with a lot of user-created content. No one thing was amazing, maybe, but it produced a lot of dangling links. Geocities: "At least 38 million pages, most written by users, were displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated.[7] The GeoCities Japan version of the service lasted until March 31, 2019.[8]". AngelFire. Tripod. Apparently the latter two are still around in some limited form.
Kaleidoscope.net, a site featuring themes for the eponymous classic MacOS themeing software package. They did a good job of generating theme previews. Fun to browse through.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 316d
https://neocities.org/
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 315d
As for bash.org: there's a fedi bot that posts a random quote once per hour:
https://p.mr64.net/users/bash
Comes with the warning about early 2000s humor
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 316d
What would you suggest instead of newegg now? I'm still using it out of momentum haven't thought to look elsewhere in a long time
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d
Microcenter is preety good.
izzyboris@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
Angelfire and Tripod were my first internet homes. And I'd forgotten about freshmeat! Thanks for the nostalgia.
gary@piefed.world · 11 pts · 316d
Digg.com used to be my absolute favorite. Then it got bought out by a company who turned it into a content farm and it eventually died out. Now it's back and owned by Kevin Rose again, and I do like it a lot better than Reddit, but I still spend more time on Piefed these days.
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
I tried to join when I got banned from Reddit permanently after like 12 years for ban evasion (using a throway account). I joined the waiting list for an invite but still waiting. That's when I discovered Lemmy, which I'm quite liking. Never heard of Piefed. Is it similar?
gary@piefed.world · 3 pts · 315d
It's still invite only for now but I'd imagine it has to be getting close to the public release. If I had any invite codes left I woulda sent you one! We might get more pretty soon though. If so I'll dm you one but idk when they're coming. And piefed is pretty much Lemmy, only it's powered by Python instead of Rust and it has more moderation features. Pretty similar experience though. You're not really missing anything if you're already on Lemmy. Right now, Lemmy/Piefed are definitely more active and mature than Digg. It looks pretty slick but there aren't a whole lot of users yet. I do like it, I just like it here better right now.
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Thanks for the info - yes, Lemmy's worked out pretty well so far and it's given me a chance to use the Boost app again, which was my favourite way to use Reddit anyway. Be cool to check out Digg when it's ready, but Lemmy has definitely filled a gap!
gary@piefed.world · 1 pts · 315d
I used to LOVE Boost but now I'm on iOS so I can't use it anymore 😩
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 316d
BBS and IRC. Technically neither are totally dead, but that was my introduction to the Internet a few years before the WWW existed.
tal@olio.cafe · 4 pts · 316d
There are a few people running telnet-connected BBSes on the Internet.
kagis
Ah, someone has a list.
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
Psythik@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 315d
Digg.
I wouldn't be on Lemmy today if it weren't for Digg committing suicide, forcing everyone to switch to reddit. And then reddit went full retard with the 3rd party app thing, so here I am.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 11 pts · 316d
gamehippo.com was basically itch.io of the late 90's / early 2000's.
The Wayback Machine, I misremembered but sometimes you can find an archived binary/archived external mirror. Often the screenshots are at least.
Edit: Some examples:
2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010401174047/http://www.gamehippo.com/
2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830074642/http://www.gamehippo.com/
2006 (best bet for finding active links): https://web.archive.org/web/20060112161747/http://www.gamehippo.com/
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 315d
reddit
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 315d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 314d
There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven't been producing content.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
Wow! I can't believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking...
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 314d
I learned about net neutrality through him
Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 314d
www.google.com
Defunct in the sense that it doesn't work as well it used to.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 9 pts · 316d
mspaintadventures.com, home to the Homestuck web"comic" (it's very mixed-media) among others. It still exists, but doesn't work properly, in part because Homestuck was heavily built on flash animations.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 316d
I saw a thing once that archived it fully along with a sandboxed adobe flash, but idk how to find it now.
Not that it is even possible to catch up.
Shit didn't even make sense when it was drip fed to us, like tab from a nearly-empty can in the apocalypse.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 316d
Cracked.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 316d
Way way way back in the late 90s I visited slashdot multiple times a day. I know it's still around but it is nothing like the commander taco days
HurricaneLiz@hilariouschaos.com · 8 pts · 316d
There was a site I found in '98 or '99 that showed a crap graphics bubble wrap sheet and you could click them all and hear popping sounds!
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 316d
Not really a web site but stumble upon was magic.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 316d
Stumbleupon was absolutely magic.
victorz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 315d
Reddit, I guess. And Google.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 315d
stile project went from a collection of bafflingly weird shit to a shitty porn site.
Yeah, there was a lot of porn before, but it wasn't really the main focus- it was basically a collection of shock value pics & videos that probably played a big part in me becoming desensitized... It was my source of "Eh, I've seen worse"
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d
I liked his comics
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 315d
The old Cartoon Network website. Used to play a lot of flash games on there back in the day, probably like most every other person who had that channel.
I would say Nitrome, but they're still alive even if they're a shell of their former self IMO.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 315d
I miss the Teen Titans game on there.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 315d
The one where you go through the UK-ified Jump City? If so, yeah, same here. Never beat it. Might see if it's on Flashpoint and try to actually beat it some day.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 314d
No, it was like a Street Fighter clone. I found a Flash copy but it doesn't seem to work.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 314d
I vaguely remember that one, after having looked it up because the site wasn't really working on my phone browser. That was probably a game I sucked at and thus hardly ever played.
Probably gonna look and see if Flashpoint has it, though. Looks like a good enough time waster.
blarth@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 315d
Ytmnd.com
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 315d
Back in 1995, I was still using Gopher, when someone showed me WWW. I soon found the chatroom at Mrshowbiz.com, and was hooked to this new Internet technology.
But my favourite was Geocities. Had several sites there. They taught me HTML coding, and that there was such a thing as too many "Under construction" animated gifs.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
You can still find the full gopher database for download out there. I grabbed a copy a few years ago. Got it working and got bored soon thereafter. It was the 'shit' of its day but that was many days ago.
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 315d
Not favourite, but I used to use Google search almost exclusively because the results were good, and I could tell it to never show results from certain sites.
No need to tell this community the sad state of affairs it's in now...
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 315d
The SciFi channel forums used to have a "caption this" page where they had stills from their channel's live feed people could post quips about. That was back when they aired MST3K.
I used to spend hours watching people try to be funny.
dkppunk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
I miss the old SciFi channel website. The chatrooms there are where my life on the internet began. Too much time spent chatting about this weeks episode of Sliders or when there was a petition because they cancelled MST3K and we fought to get it back.
soar160@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 316d
Not A website, but in the early modem days there used to be these things called web rings. When you were done going through one site (usually just a few short pages or a short story kind of deal back then), you clicked the 'next' button and it brought you to another random, related (usually) website. My favorite web ring was the Star Wars ring. Learned a lot of expanded universe stuff, and random fan fiction. There was one site it brought me to that told me how to use the force...still trying to make my beer come to my hand :-)
AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 316d
Pick pretty much any forum.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 315d
What.cd?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 315d
So hard to keep a ratio, too
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 314d
lol yeah, not the best tracker to learn on but eventually found some workarounds
I think simplest was finding heavy scene packs to import/reverify from easy generals. Less competition due to disk space requirement and better at saturating shared box ratecaps which let occasional crumbs to fall through. Worked on hdbits too IIRC.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
Ya and at that point it was almost like time is money and you're better off buying the music 😂
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 315d
Joecartoons
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d
Hey look I'm hamster dancing.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 316d
Stickdeath
No idea if it's still up or not.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 6 pts · 316d
VideoGameJams
Was a website of midi versions of video game songs and also had guitar tabs for the songs. I would legitimately just listen to those versions of the songs themselves.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 314d
Miniclip.com.
Sure you could go there still now. But it's an empty husk of what it was before. Flash died without any viable replacement for all the old flash games that relied on it.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 314d
They enshitified a ton too.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d
Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God's sake !
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 315d
I spent a lot of time in chat rooms roughly 30 years ago. Yahoo chat rooms were fun, and also The Offspring's old website from back in the late 90s had a chat room. Also I used to get a kick out of the "Ate my balls" webring and the dance ones that started with hamster dance.
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.
gigachad@piefed.social · 4 pts · 315d
hamsterdance.org
Wiki
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
Yahoo Games
West_of_West@piefed.social · 4 pts · 316d
I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists... but it is not the same.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 4 pts · 316d
Wormhole by Centerfleet
Or Tea Games
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
The Dark Side of the Net and Goth Girl of the Week. There use to be a goth dating site but I can't remember the name. It doesn't matter I suppose. I will be dead soon any way.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 315d
Club Penguin. RIP :(
Waddle on, folks. Waddle on…
Jolteon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 315d
There was still an iteration of it up last I checked.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 315d
You mean those CPPS? Idk about those… seems there were plenty of controversies around them. I miss the OG. A proper experience, safe for the youngins. These CPPS seem to have shown themselves as rather the opposite, actively dangerous to them. I'm not a youngin anymore, but still
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 316d
Joecartoon
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 315d
My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 316d
skafunkrastapunk.com
epic music sharing...
also
dancingmokey.com
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 316d
MotoModders.net
That shit was wild back in the day. Rhythm lights, anyone?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 315d
Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion").
It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone's experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).
Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.
There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 314d
www.ebaumsworld.com its still around but its not the same.
Also www.thingsididlastnight.com - it just said YOUR MOM in huge letters. Thats it. No ads, no images, nothing. Just YOUR MOM
Also www.mostannoyingwebpage.com (I think). Just an endless stream of popup messages with no way out
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 316d
maybe freshmeat?
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 3 pts · 316d
Memepool
Scary Go Round
Everything2.com (holy shit! still exists)
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Suck.com
kdcd@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 316d
Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
dkppunk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
I was hoping someone else would say Bolt! That was such a great website way back. The message boards and games were so much fun. I spent way too many hours behind a computer at the library specifically to go on that website.
kdcd@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 315d
Yes! I made so many friends back then
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
I used to use the NME website, which was a weekly music paper in the UK, back in the day.
It had forums and free webmail, so I had had an nme.com address that made me feel kinda cool (I was a teenager and music was very much my identity).
Then they cancelled the webmail and that was that. All my teen emails gone forever. I'd love to get them back, and who knows,they could be sitting on a server somewhere, but I doubt it.
Oh, also Bebo. Posted a lot on that precursor to Facebook and now it's all gone.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 315d
fuckedcompany.com
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 315d
XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just.. Gone
meathorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Firingsquad - gaming focused hardware and news
https://web.archive.org/web/20040630053837/http://firingsquad.com/
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 315d
Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
&TOTSE
I got there right after the facelift in the early oughts, when they switched to vBulletin.
Shortly before the last shutdown, I cloned the entire website and I host it privately just for myself for future browsing.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
FunnyJunk
CoolCademM@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 313d
I swear I remember some precursor to YouTube somewhere
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 313d
Dailymotion ?
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d
I remember there being an app called RealPlayer that my brothers had installed on our family computer back in late 1990 or 2000. There, you select a 320pi that was streamed to you via the internet. Could that be what you're thinking of?
edit: I did some searching and this very useful Timeline of online video, which might be helpful in your search.
CoolCademM@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 313d
No, I’m not that old. YouTube existed when I was growing up but it wasn’t really huge until a bit later. Thanks for the video tho, I’ll check it.
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 315d
imagineer@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 316d
goldesel.6x.to for eMule links or bockwurst.6x.to for direct downloads of SW
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 316d
Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.
vortexal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 315d
There used to be a website called "thesmartass(dot)info". It had online emulators for old video game consoles as well as some flash games and a bunch of other stuff that I never used. The homepage also had a daily (or it might have been weekly, I've forgotten) artwork that was usually abstract but sometimes it got weird. Like, there is this one image that I sometimes think about, where it was a realistic looking image of a naked woman (or at least I think it was a woman) with a really long and flexible torso, and her torso is contorted so she fits inside a box.
I don't know when it happened but it seems like the domain has been transferred over to someone else and it's a completely different website now. Also, I did check the Wayback Machine and it is archived but it seems like it wasn't archived properly as the website is almost completely broken.
xxcarpaii@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d
Iminlikewithyou / omgpop
Peak Myspace-era cringe but so fun
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 315d
back when there was not much excite was very nice. If it would have gotten tabs like yahoo it would have went at least as long.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 316d
Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.
solrize@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 316d
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 315d
Something happened to fmh-child.org
It isn't what it used to be.
EvilBit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.
https://everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron
obelix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d
I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
I mean, whether or not I liked Sodahead, whether or not it was good for me, and whether or not it was a good website are all questions without definitive answer, but I sure did spend my teenage years there
kubok@fedia.io · 1 pts · 316d
userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
Anyone remember Happy Puppy?
There used to be rotten.com, which posted extremely disturbing pictures and I don't miss that part of it. But I do miss the Rotten Library, which used to be a bastion of suppressed literature.
My old stomping grounds, the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch.
GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
Searchlores.org
Nomad@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 316d
Ghcif.de
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 315d
I loved DDRFreak forums and RODiary. RIP to both of those sites.