What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Angelfire and Tripod were my first internet homes. And I'd forgotten about freshmeat! Thanks for the nostalgia.
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Iminlikewithyou / omgpop
Peak Myspace-era cringe but so fun
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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.
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.
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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.
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StumbleUpon
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Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
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XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just.. Gone
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My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
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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.
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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
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Defunct in the sense that it doesn't work as well it used to.
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Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven't been producing content.
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Wow! I can't believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking...
I learned about net neutrality through him
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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.
They enshitified a ton too.
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So hard to keep a ratio, too
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.
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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.
It was defunct long before that.
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I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
They were trying to tell you to touch grass
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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.
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.
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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.
