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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

skafunkrastapunk.com

epic music sharing...

also
dancingmokey.com

[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Stickdeath

No idea if it's still up or not.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

MotoModders.net

That shit was wild back in the day. Rhythm lights, anyone?

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Club Penguin. RIP :(

Waddle on, folks. Waddle on…

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There was still an iteration of it up last I checked.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago

You mean those CPPS? Idk about those… seems there were plenty of controversies around them. I miss the OG. A proper experience, safe for the youngins. These CPPS seem to have shown themselves as rather the opposite, actively dangerous to them. I'm not a youngin anymore, but still

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 22 hours ago

maybe freshmeat?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Memepool

Scary Go Round

Everything2.com (holy shit! still exists)

[–] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 3 points 11 minutes ago

StumbleUpon

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago
[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God's sake !

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yahoo Games

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.

[–] kdcd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place

[–] dkppunk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was hoping someone else would say Bolt! That was such a great website way back. The message boards and games were so much fun. I spent way too many hours behind a computer at the library specifically to go on that website.

[–] kdcd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes! I made so many friends back then

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

fuckedcompany.com

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

&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.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] kubok@fedia.io 1 points 23 hours ago

userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.

[–] obelix@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.

https://everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Digg.

I wouldn't be on Lemmy today if it weren't for Digg committing suicide, forcing everyone to switch to reddit. And then reddit went full retard with the 3rd party app thing, so here I am.

[–] xxcarpaii@sh.itjust.works 1 points 52 minutes ago

Iminlikewithyou / omgpop

Peak Myspace-era cringe but so fun

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago

Something happened to fmh-child.org

It isn't what it used to be.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
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