What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?
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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 make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
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Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
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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.
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Pick pretty much any forum.
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Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
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Cracked.
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not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
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BBS and IRC. Technically neither are totally dead, but that was my introduction to the Internet a few years before the WWW existed.
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I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.
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Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.
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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.
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not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
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.
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goldesel.6x.to for eMule links or bockwurst.6x.to for direct downloads of SW
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Not really a web site but stumble upon was magic.
Stumbleupon was absolutely magic.
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YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it's effectively dead.
Forgot about that one
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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.
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userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.
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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
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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.
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