TIL zombo.com still exists, and no longer requires flash

[borf@lemmynsfw.com]

Were you extremely online between 2005 and 2012? If not, that's why.

[don@lemmy.ca]

The unattainable is unknown at zombocom.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Launched in 1999

[stillwater@sh.itjust.works]

Extremely online since the 90s and I missed this one.. Or saw it once and forgot it.

[reannlegge@lemmy.ca]

Makes me feel younger somehow, I thought it was older than that!

[glasshalfhopeful@lemmy.ca]

I mean, I've certainly been actively online since the 90s, including pre-internet BBSs and the like. I guess I just missed this one. Must of not been in any of the web rings I was a part of.

[cricket@lemmy.zip]

Which is relevant, because it means zombo.com was launched near the peak of the dot com bubble (burst in 2000). Makes complete sense.

[rhaedas@fedia.io]

That's okay. Maybe you're familiar with another meme level reference, 1 of the lucky 10,000. Web rings were like the coolest thing.

[ieatpwns@lemmy.world]

Man I used to spend hours on this site before modern social media came around

[glasshalfhopeful@lemmy.ca]

That's one of my favorite XKCDs.

And web rings were indeed cool. I had a number of websites at the time using them and even made some great friends through those associations.

[hegz@lemmy.ca]

Also one of the very few non https sites that I can recall off the top of my head. I use it for testing on a semi regular basis.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

That's great. I use http://example.com/