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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.
Stickdeath
No idea if it's still up or not.
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.
Yahoo Games
Wormhole by Centerfleet
Or Tea Games
My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
maybe freshmeat?
The Dark Side of the Net and Goth Girl of the Week. There use to be a goth dating site but I can't remember the name. It doesn't matter I suppose. I will be dead soon any way.
skafunkrastapunk.com
epic music sharing...
also
dancingmokey.com
Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion").
It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone's experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).
Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.
There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.
Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?
Memepool
Scary Go Round
Everything2.com (holy shit! still exists)
Joecartoon
www.ebaumsworld.com its still around but its not the same.
Also www.thingsididlastnight.com - it just said YOUR MOM in huge letters. Thats it. No ads, no images, nothing. Just YOUR MOM
Also www.mostannoyingwebpage.com (I think). Just an endless stream of popup messages with no way out
FunnyJunk
XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just.. Gone
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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Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.
Firingsquad - gaming focused hardware and news
https://web.archive.org/web/20040630053837/http://firingsquad.com/
fuckedcompany.com
&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.
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.
There used to be a website called "thesmartass(dot)info". It had online emulators for old video game consoles as well as some flash games and a bunch of other stuff that I never used. The homepage also had a daily (or it might have been weekly, I've forgotten) artwork that was usually abstract but sometimes it got weird. Like, there is this one image that I sometimes think about, where it was a realistic looking image of a naked woman (or at least I think it was a woman) with a really long and flexible torso, and her torso is contorted so she fits inside a box.
I don't know when it happened but it seems like the domain has been transferred over to someone else and it's a completely different website now. Also, I did check the Wayback Machine and it is archived but it seems like it wasn't archived properly as the website is almost completely broken.