Literally any website that had flash games. I miss scrolling through and having thousands of games to play.
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The old school Gawker sites like io9, Deadspin and Jalopnik.
Tvtome.com
Miles better than IMDB, and specifically for TV shows. It was a great way of keeping track of episodes and seasons in preparation for ~~tormenting~~ torrenting (ducking autocorrect).
I miss nectarine demoscene radio. Now we just have hypr.
You mean this Nectarine Demoscene Radio? https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
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Gosh. Any, ya know?
I used to mock them, back then, because I thought I was better at it (and I was a stupid edgy teen), but now I really miss those janky, HTML illiterate pages that someone threw together without much of an inkling of what they were doing but with all the passion for their chosen subject, their fandom, their tiny niche ship, their obscure hobby.
I know, I know, "these still exist", neocities is a thing and a handful similar projects are desperately clinging to existence too. It's lost its innocence. Idk. I'm old.
Also, old-style message boards. Like subscribe smash that notification bell if you remember the 1. SMOF (which only existed for a few days into the actual 2000s don't at me).
Dear blank please blank and FML were my go-to time wasters.
StickDeath.com
https://stickdeatharchive.github.io/
This site aims to archive as many of the original StickDeath.com games and animations as possible!
Unfortunately, StickDeath.com is gone and it has been excluded from the Internet Archive for reasons unknown. This site aims to host as many of the original StickDeath swf files as possible.
Thanks to the discovery of an active internet archive of the original StickDeath website, most of the animations have been recovered! However, some favorites are still missing, such as most of the wrestling ones, and most of the animated shorts.
Flash is dead, but the open-source Ruffle can play many Flash things, and I suppose could probably play them.
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IndyMedia. It was direct, citizen journalism in all the best and worst ways. It's where I learned that the job of riot police is to attack citizens and start riots.
I like excite over yahoo pre 2000's
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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Gaia online
gamehippo.com, dohgames.com, 1up.com and zone.msn.com which technically is still around I just miss the Age of Empires game rooms and chat.
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Brunching Shuttlecocks. Fucking hilarious comedy site with daily posts. Can't find any remnants of it out there.
YES! I happen to know a bit about that!
Half of it, Lore Sjöberg, is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/loresjoberg.bsky.social I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear from someone else who remembers Brunching!
He has a website where he's posted some of his work since, called Bad Gods: https://badgods.com/
And there's a Discord where old Brunching fans hang out, Brunchma Expats, I can't send an invite at the moment but I'll try to remember to do it when I get back to the house!
Oh man, thanks! I just spent an hour reading his bluesky. Still funny as shit.
He is!
Joe Cartoon
Draac's Gifs 123 / School of HTML.
Taught me basic skills back in my WebTV days.
Fuk Warner Brothers.
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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 aragraph.
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/.