What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
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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.
Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?
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Yahoo Games
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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.
300mb is pretty freaking decent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
Wow! I can't believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking...
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So hard to keep a ratio, too
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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
