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Luckily they're still active on YouTube!
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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!
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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.
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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
lost so much time with that. just one more click before bed
Wasn't this just a Firefox extension? But, yeah, I miss stumbling too.
It was a website first that would load stumbled sites in a frame while keeping their button to stumble visible. I never used the extension just the site.
I did both, loved them.
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Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)
Digg (back with us, but not the same)
Freshmeat
Kuro5hin
Slashdot was my fucking jam back in the day. I even met CmdrTaco once before I really even knew what Linux was.
Unpopular opinion: Google?
Back before it sucked.
Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago
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Zombocom
You could do anything at Zombo-com
I think that one still exists?
Sadly was taken over and no longer has the iconic voice and music. Now it’s just some crap TTS without the same level of whimsy.
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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.
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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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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There was a website many years ago that when opened, it looked like an online retailer in Germany for all sorts of things, similar to Walmart. When you scrolled around it would behave as you'd expect, but once you left it alone for half a minute or so, suddenly every element of the page became a Rube Goldberg machine.
A stack of pots and pans or something would fall down to the next row and send something hurtling across the screen, on and on, with the page moving up and down as needed. I wish I'd had the thought to record somehow it at the time. Only other thing I've seen like it was an old Google Chrome commercial on YouTube that used the whole page and not just the video player.
I've looked a few times for some hint of what I remember, but it might only live in the archive of my memories now.
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.
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.
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HamsterDance.com
Ze Frank had a great personal site with a dozen JavaScript / flash apps that let you draw with different brushes etc. fun time waster
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.
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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.
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The ones without paywalls and ads.
Altavista.
I'd love to have it back. I hate all the search engines right now.
Dear blank please blank and FML were my go-to time wasters.
Gaia online
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