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
gamehippo.com was basically itch.io of the late 90’s / early 2000’s.
The Wayback Machine actually has quite of few lost to time indie game downloads archived on snapshots of that site to my surprise. I was expecting nothing but dead links.
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.
Yahoo Games
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.
The SciFi channel forums used to have a “caption this” page where they had stills from their channel’s live feed people could post quips about. That was back when they aired MST3K.
I used to spend hours watching people try to be funny.
I miss the old SciFi channel website. The chatrooms there are where my life on the internet began. Too much time spent chatting about this weeks episode of Sliders or when there was a petition because they cancelled MST3K and we fought to get it back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
Wow! I can’t believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking…
Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven’t been producing content.
The old Cartoon Network website. Used to play a lot of flash games on there back in the day, probably like most every other person who had that channel.
I would say Nitrome, but they’re still alive even if they’re a shell of their former self IMO.
I miss the Teen Titans game on there.
The one where you go through the UK-ified Jump City? If so, yeah, same here. Never beat it. Might see if it’s on Flashpoint and try to actually beat it some day.
No, it was like a Street Fighter clone. I found a Flash copy but it doesn’t seem to work.
I vaguely remember that one, after having looked it up because the site wasn’t really working on my phone browser. That was probably a game I sucked at and thus hardly ever played.
Probably gonna look and see if Flashpoint has it, though. Looks like a good enough time waster.
maybe freshmeat?
Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
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.
Yes! I made so many friends back then
So hard to keep a ratio, too
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?
Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God’s sake !
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.
