Reddit. Unfortunately it’s defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.
The Zionists and American fascists seem to be taking it over too.
r/politics was mass censoring any coverage of the Jimmy Kimmel debacle recently.
It was defunct long before that.
I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!
I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
yeah haha that was a bit annoying!
(Link works like stumbleupon basically)
ooh, neat! ty!
Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
ZOMBO COM!
I make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
I hear anything is possible at that website! Anything at all! The infinite is possible! The unattainable is unknown!
It’s not defunct tho… Newgrounds is still around.
Actually, none of my favorite websites are defunct. Something Awful, LiveJournal, and Penny-Arcade are also still going.
Long live the old internet.
YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it’s effectively dead.
Forgot about that one
Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
https://homestarrunner.com/I wanted to say this too, but yeah they are still here. And their latest cartoon is relevant too.
I wouldn’t say it was a number one favorite, but I feel like the internet isn’t the same without
timecube.comTW: conspiracy nonsense, racism, crimes against grammar https://web.archive.org/web/20050829015921/http://www.timecube.com/
not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
Cracked had a 10/10 movie podcast that was stopped abruptly (after it was bought up & butchered ,laying off like 100 staff) & it was the best movie podcast.
i fondly remember one post once that had me in tears, about teaching somali pirates about ebay
I liked them until they got political. Totally ruined their vibe.
typical dot world
I used to love IMDB before it got taken over. Especially the old forums where pretty much every TV show, every actor, etc… all had a forum on their page to discuss.
I would spend hours on there discussing the latest episodes of BSG, or Lost, or what have you. It was legitimately a water cooler for television watchers when no one in the real world shared the same television interests as me.
For Lost, the number of debates during that first couple seasons about what the connection would be in Locke and Hume being named after philosophers who wrote on human nature.
Or basically an easy place to go and discuss any thoughts or questions about a movie you just watched, or to find out if anyone else felt like an actor’s performance was good/bad/etc…
It was just a fun place to hang out for a movie/TV buff. When they took it away, I was pretty sad.
BBS and IRC. Technically neither are totally dead, but that was my introduction to the Internet a few years before the WWW existed.
There are a few people running telnet-connected BBSes on the Internet.
kagis
Ah, someone has a list.
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
The Telnet BBS Guide focuses Bulletin Board Systems – the original Social Network, serving the BBS community for over 27 years! We list both Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems all over the world. We currently list 976 BBS and related systems with brief and detailed descriptions and a downloadable text-version listing suitable for listing on your BBS or for as a download for others to view and use.
Way way way back in the late 90s I visited slashdot multiple times a day. I know it’s still around but it is nothing like the commander taco days
Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.
Florida man
StumbleUpon
No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean the online file storage (would now be called ‘cloud’ storage) site that it was before it died and Tom bought the domain.
It had an astounding 300MB of space available for free, much more than the contemporary competition.
Of course now there’s Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Myspace was just too far ahead of their time.
I don’t know about number one, but a few that I miss.
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freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.
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newegg.com — computer components retailer — is still around, but it doesn’t hold the spot it once did.
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bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.
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A few “hosting” sites that went down with a lot of user-created content. No one thing was amazing, maybe, but it produced a lot of dangling links. Geocities: “At least 38 million pages, most written by users, were displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated.[7] The GeoCities Japan version of the service lasted until March 31, 2019.[8]”. AngelFire. Tripod. Apparently the latter two are still around in some limited form.
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Kaleidoscope.net, a site featuring themes for the eponymous classic MacOS themeing software package. They did a good job of generating theme previews. Fun to browse through.
What would you suggest instead of newegg now? I’m still using it out of momentum haven’t thought to look elsewhere in a long time
As for bash.org: there’s a fedi bot that posts a random quote once per hour:
Comes with the warning about early 2000s humor
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