I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists... but it is not the same.
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I used to use the NME website, which was a weekly music paper in the UK, back in the day.
It had forums and free webmail, so I had had an nme.com address that made me feel kinda cool (I was a teenager and music was very much my identity).
Then they cancelled the webmail and that was that. All my teen emails gone forever. I'd love to get them back, and who knows,they could be sitting on a server somewhere, but I doubt it.
Oh, also Bebo. Posted a lot on that precursor to Facebook and now it's all gone.
&TOTSE
I got there right after the facelift in the early oughts, when they switched to vBulletin.
Shortly before the last shutdown, I cloned the entire website and I host it privately just for myself for future browsing.
Memepool
Scary Go Round
Everything2.com (holy shit! still exists)
maybe freshmeat?
Iminlikewithyou / omgpop
Peak Myspace-era cringe but so fun
fuckedcompany.com
skafunkrastapunk.com
epic music sharing...
also
dancingmokey.com
I would say MSN Chat/Groups. I know MSN itself is still alive and well, but those two things used to have been a way to feel a bond within a community. It was some of my earlier stages of roleplaying online with people, up until the day Microsoft decided to slap a subscription onto chat and then outright discontinuing it when that model fell apart.
back when there was not much excite was very nice. If it would have gotten tabs like yahoo it would have went at least as long.
Firingsquad - gaming focused hardware and news
https://web.archive.org/web/20040630053837/http://firingsquad.com/
Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.
I mean, whether or not I liked Sodahead, whether or not it was good for me, and whether or not it was a good website are all questions without definitive answer, but I sure did spend my teenage years there
goldesel.6x.to for eMule links or bockwurst.6x.to for direct downloads of SW
Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
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I loved DDRFreak forums and RODiary. RIP to both of those sites.
Something happened to fmh-child.org
It isn't what it used to be.
userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.
Ghcif.de
Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.
I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.
The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.