• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Ones that aren’t a div mush mess. You see them rarely nowadays.

    I mean, i agree, there are too much tags with ambiguous and overlapping definition. But c’mon, at least put the text in a <p>aragraph.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    Gamewinners. While GameFaqs has largely taken over and a lot of games no longer offer actual built in cheat codes, GW was one of the best resources and even had cheats that aren’t on GF. Thank god archive.org still lets me browse GW

    Also CMGSCCC which had soooooo many gameshark codes! It still kinda exists as codetwink now

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    The 2000s Cartoon Network US site and Nitrome ( still alive but feels like a shell of its former glory ).

    I know I can still play a lot of the old CN flash games on Flash Point, but it’s not as aesthetically satisfying as the old CN site.

    As for Nitrome, I got a zip file that contained a lot of the games since they ain’t available on Flash Point and I don’t wanna use the modern site. The old games like Mutiny or IceBreakers are still kinda fun, even if games like Rubble Trouble, for some reason, don’t run well on my potato desktop under Ruffle.

    Those were 2 of my favorite game sites in the 2000s, before I learned about NotDoppler.

    Edit:

    After looking at various comments, gonna say I remember the old Pencilmation series back when there was maybe a few different shorts on their website. Back when evil blue pen man was the big bad. Before they, or whatever copycat it was, started making tons of them on yt that are nothing but mass produced slop. Lived long enough to become a villain.

    I also remembered an old PopTarts website with some dumb flash game about going down the red carpet without getting toasted and/or eaten ( IIRC ) that lead to me finding Pencilmation.

    • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      As mentioned elsewhere Homestar Runner is still around and not doing badly. The Wiki, however, is severely starved for resources, it always takes a long long time to load for me.

      • early_riser@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        I’m aware they’re still around. I appreciate that they only come out with something when they think it’s worth making (and have time to make it) rather than desperately trying to stay relevant. But the flash era enabled a kind of interactivity that I’m not sure is possible in these latter days of passive content consumption.

        At the time, I thought this April fools’ video was their way of saying they wanted to wind things down. I also think Marzipan’s Answering Machine 17 was a brilliant way to celebrate the site, and I would have been happy if that was the last thing they ever made. (Also you know the OUYA screwed up if H*R is making fun of it).

        But I do mourn the seemingly immanent loss of the wiki. I hope someone else can revive it. I think the TV Tropes article on H*R calls the wiki “disturbingly comprehensive”, and that’s an apt description. I used it to read the transcripts of new toons after watching them as there often visual gags I missed that the text would point out.

  • Mesa@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    MUDs, MOOs, MUCKs and MUSHes.

    Usenet in general

    sodaconstructor.com

    memepool

    ectoplasmosis

    Boing Boing when it was great

    An early virtual world called WorldsAway, technically still exists at VZones but I don’t think it’s possible to make an account now

    Hotwired

    Suck.com and early discussion side adjunct Plastic.com

    TimmyBigHands, short-lived humor magazine from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 people shortly after the show folded the second time.

    The Sci-Fi Channel’s website and MTV.com, both started with the hopes of becoming a substantial part of the World Wide Web by getting in early, then shuttered when owners lost interest or believed the lies that social media was where the only thing that mattered any more. Also Cartoon Network’s website, which was once a joy. Adult Swim’s website hangs on, but is a shadow of its former self, and doesn’t host forums any longer.

    The Usenet MSTing archives at pinky.wtower.com

    • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      One thing that still exists is WWWF Grudge Match, a likely inspiration for MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, a crowdsourced humor site where they put different pop culture figures against each other in textual battles and people contributed their takes and votes on who would win. It hasn’t updated in over two decades though. It even spawned a book!

      • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        (I am slightly responsible for its continued existence. I noticed that it had gone offline a while back. I happened to have Chris, one of its founders, in my contacts list, so I sent him a message about it. Turns out to have been an expired credit card, a quick change of backing funds and GRUDGE MATCH LIVES AGAIN!)