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You could do anything on zombo.com.
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.
Literally any website that had flash games. I miss scrolling through and having thousands of games to play.
mulletsgalore.com
The OCP, before it was hardocp.
Using metafilter.com before google was a thing.
The old school Gawker sites like io9, Deadspin and Jalopnik.
Unpopular opinion: Google?
Back before it sucked.
Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago
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.
MySpace and Facebook from before 2010. There's not really any social media that's designed to show me posts from my friends and nothing else. Now whenever I open up Facebook I am just shown shit from people and pages I never subscribed to and ads.
Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I'd have a solution for that, but that's not happening.
The ones without paywalls and ads.
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.
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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.
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Original Neopets.
Stumbleupon.
Early Reddit.
Killfrog.com
I definitely miss Stumbleupon. Closest I can find to fill that void is jumpstick.app, which is also good.
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Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)
Digg (back with us, but not the same)
Freshmeat
Kuro5hin
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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.
bash.org
I don't think that new items can be submitted, but the old stuff is available here.
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
MUDs, MOOs, MUCKs and MUSHes.
I mean, they're still out there. Not all of them, and the player populations aren't as large as in their heyday.
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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!
(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!)
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Joe Cartoon
Unsanitized blogs where people just spilled out their thoughts. Overwhelmingly were they inconsequential, but it was still a funny little peek into the lives of people you’d never know. You can’t do that sort of thing as freely anymore, between doxxing, scraper swarms, and the abundance of lunatics online. The barrier to entry is higher and the risks greater.
They are still around and thriving. Keywords to search for are: personal web, small web, indie web
These blogs do still exist, they just lack discoverability because they‘re not focusing on SEO. You might want to give Kagi Small Web a go. It‘s their explicit goal to promote these kinds of websites.
It‘s not quite the same as the good old days, but it‘s probably as close as we can get right now.
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