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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.
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.
Neocities still exists, and is doing great!
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?
Luckily they’re still active on YouTube!
The sites still up, but I don’t know if it gets updated.
I think I’m about 15 years behind on my SBEmails.
The email. The email. The what what? The email.
Everybody to the limit! Fhqwhgads!
it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
It’s still around, and a while ago had a cartoon about going back to a website!
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!
Cliff Yablonski hates you
I hung soo much on Get that azzhole?, a site with a huge collection of user-made cars for GTA1. It wasn’t easy to find the URL back, but I got it through the equally retro-looking https://www.lnkworld.com/.
Stumbleupon it was how I found Reddit
Jiggmin. It was some independent flash developers website where he posted a lot of browser games and had a forum with a decent community. Played a ton of platform racer games on there and had a lot of fun as a kid. It’s been defunct for at least a decade if not more.
Miles better than IMDB, and specifically for TV shows. It was a great way of keeping track of episodes and seasons in preparation for
tormentingtorrenting (ducking autocorrect).Lego.com 's online games section
It looks like a lot of them may be archived here, as searching for “lego” turns up about 600 results. At least some of those look like officially-branded things.
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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.
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All Hail the Temple
The oldschool zone.com.
That’s how I got into online chess. And I played the Quake2 demo a lot there too. Good times.
The original FAQS.org site.
( nowadays, the awesomest lifesink is TVTropes.org , btw, for all the people needing a fix of interestings : )
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Altavista.
I’d love to have it back. I hate all the search engines right now.
Unpopular opinion: Google?
Back before it sucked.
It’s crazy that there is a whole generation of people who will never know how good google was at some point. You could find all the obscure shit. How often i just googled a serial number or some weird machinery to find parts, and people thought that i’m some sort of wizard. Try that now
Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago
Searching for anything on YouTube now is a nightmare
A bit of the Google that was like that persists as the ‘web’ subsearch. The site at https://udm14.com/ exists purely as a frontend to that search. It’s not exactly like the old Google, it’s still too ready to throw Youtube videos at the top of the results, but it’s still much easier to find interesting websites that way than Google’s default search.
