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Neocities and just generally when it was cool for everyone to have their own personal website rather than having profiles on the major platforms.
Should be easier than ever today.
Neocities still exists, and is doing great!
Sure! I don’t really care what people use, I’d just like to see more of it. It’s also on me to be part of the change I want to see, because I have my domain and everything, but I haven’t given myself the time to set things up.
Joe Cartoon
Cracked in it’s prime was fucking amazing.
Like, it’s the type of “just stay here” website everyone keeps trying to make.
On any random day they’d post like an article every 15 minutes. No matter when you needed to kill 15-30 there was something funny and usually informative.
There was probably 5 years straight I didn’t poop without reading an article on Cracked.
There’s no other quality stream of content like that since.
I just had a quick look at the Cracked homepage and it looks like they’ve got articles written by actual writers again, which is a nice change. It turns out that, while cheap, filling your website with bullshit listicles written by “Cracked readers” makes for bad content.
DigDoug? Here? MeFi DigDoug? How are ya!
I think that must be someone else, I don’t know what MeFi is, I’m afraid.
Aah okay. “MeFi” is “Metafilter,” another website out there. where I’ve seen a different DigDoug. It’s a cool name anyway.
Shit man, I tried…
Those aren’t “articles” there’s like a paragraph, and then a shit ton of pictures with text.
Fucking got my hopes up and everything, I’m gonna remember this one for April Fool’s though. Right up until you scroll down the first time it’s super convincing that it’s back.
Ooops… Sorry. I didn’t mean to mislead you.
All I did was scroll down and note that I didn’t see any articles written by “Cracked readers” - I didn’t actually look at the articles themselves.
Luckily they’re still active on YouTube!
It’s still around, and a while ago had a cartoon about going back to a website!
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
The sites still up, but I don’t know if it gets updated.
I think I’m about 15 years behind on my SBEmails.
it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
The email. The email. The what what? The email.
Everybody to the limit! Fhqwhgads!
Technically the website is still around. It just doesn’t have any of the fun interactive stuff now that Flash is defunct. It’s where they sell merch now.
I may be the proud owner of the Trogdor board game.
My daughter got me a Trogdor T shirt last Father’s Day. I usually get at least one reaction when I wear it in public.
It’s working again, through the power of Ruffle!
Google and youtube.
all the piracy ones
Demoniod was great!
The ones without paywalls and ads.
Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)
Digg (back with us, but not the same)
Freshmeat
Kuro5hin
Slashdot was my fucking jam back in the day. I even met CmdrTaco once before I really even knew what Linux was.
I have to ask, is the software preservation 4am, who cracks the Apple II disks? If so then hooray, thanks for being so great!
Unfortunately not! But anyone who preserves Apple II disks is awesome in my book
Albino Blacksheep, Cracked, early message boards (/., Digg, reddit, etc, before they turned into garbage), NewGrounds, RatherGood
New grounds, that one probably hurts the most. There was so much free creativity happening.
What? Newgrounds is still alive and still has lots of things posted?
ytmnd. Technically it still exists but the magic is gone
Ohhh yeah. You had to be there as part of the community in the early 2000s to really get the magic. It’s like LUE, SA, even /b/. I will forever look back fondly on my teenage shitposting days.
Zombocom
You could do anything at Zombo-com
I think that one still exists?
Sadly was taken over and no longer has the iconic voice and music. Now it’s just some crap TTS without the same level of whimsy.
It doesn’t use flash anymore so it’s dead to me
edit: wtf, did it change hands recently? they fucked it up
The current owner bought the domain when it was available, and since they dont own the previous content they wont post it. They do have a notice asking the original owner to contact them though. /u/DavidGA did post that theres https://html5zombo.com/ which seems to be the OG content
Good news!
(wow I’m showing off my freakish memory here, I’m still an active Metafilter participant)
I like excite over yahoo pre 2000’s
Stumbleupon
I still talk about the facts and sites I stumbled upon using it. For a very, very, short time old Reddit felt a bit like it.
Wasn’t this just a Firefox extension? But, yeah, I miss stumbling too.
It was a website first that would load stumbled sites in a frame while keeping their button to stumble visible. I never used the extension just the site.
I did both, loved them.
lost so much time with that. just one more click before bed
