What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?
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Reddit, I guess. And Google.
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I don't know about number one, but a few that I miss.
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freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.
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newegg.com --- computer components retailer --- is still around, but it doesn't hold the spot it once did.
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bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.
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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.
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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.
As for bash.org: there's a fedi bot that posts a random quote once per hour:
Comes with the warning about early 2000s humor
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Rip Stumble upon.
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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.
i fondly remember one post once that had me in tears, about teaching somali pirates about ebay
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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.
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Something happened to fmh-child.org
It isn't what it used to be.
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not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
I liked them until they got political. Totally ruined their vibe.
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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!
I hear anything is possible at that website! Anything at all! The infinite is possible! The unattainable is unknown!
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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"
I liked his comics
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I would say MSN Chat/Groups. I know MSN itself is still alive and well, but those two things used to have been a way to feel a bond within a community. It was some of my earlier stages of roleplaying online with people, up until the day Microsoft decided to slap a subscription onto chat and then outright discontinuing it when that model fell apart.
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Club Penguin. RIP
Waddle on, folks. Waddle on…
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Joecartoons
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&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.
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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!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Zombocom was and still is the only website in the world.
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Club Penguin. RIP
Waddle on, folks. Waddle on…
There was still an iteration of it up last I checked.
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YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it's effectively dead.
That site was peak meme humor in its heyday. I still have a big list of some of my top urls.
