AskewLord

What websites do you miss from the 2000s?

https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1842216/what-websites-do-you-miss-from-the-2000s

Mar 4 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadneidu3Mar 4

Tvtome.com

Miles better than IMDB, and specifically for TV shows. It was a great way of keeping track of episodes and seasons in preparation for tormenting.

Show threadgivesomefucksMar 4

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.

Show threadDigDougMar 4
I just had a quick look at the Cracked homepage and it looks like they’ve got articles written by actual writers again, which is a nice change. It turns out that, while cheap, filling your website with bullshit listicles written by “Cracked readers” makes for bad content.
Show threadgivesomefucksMar 4

Shit man, I tried…

Those aren’t “articles” there’s like a paragraph, and then a shit ton of pictures with text.

Fucking got my hopes up and everything, I’m gonna remember this one for April Fool’s though. Right up until you scroll down the first time it’s super convincing that it’s back.

Show threadDigDougMar 4

Ooops… Sorry. I didn’t mean to mislead you.

All I did was scroll down and note that I didn’t see any articles written by “Cracked readers” - I didn’t actually look at the articles themselves.

Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
DigDoug? Here? MeFi DigDoug? How are ya!
Show threadDigDougMar 5
I think that must be someone else, I don’t know what MeFi is, I’m afraid.
Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
Aah okay. “MeFi” is “Metafilter,” another website out there. where I’ve seen a different DigDoug. It’s a cool name anyway.
Show threadYoFrodoMar 4

Zombocom

You could do anything at Zombo-com

Show threadZorsithMar 4
I think that one still exists?
Show threadchunesMar 4

It doesn’t use flash anymore so it’s dead to me

edit: wtf, did it change hands recently? they fucked it up

Show threadYoFrodoMar 4
The current owner bought the domain when it was available, and since they dont own the previous content they wont post it. They do have a notice asking the original owner to contact them though. /u/DavidGA did post that theres html5zombo.com which seems to be the OG content
Show threadotacon239Mar 4
Sadly was taken over and no longer has the iconic voice and music. Now it’s just some crap re-recorded and without the same level of whimsy.
Show threadDavidGAMar 4

Good news!

html5zombo.com

Show threadheshMar 4
ytmnd. Technically it still exists but the magic is gone
Show threadRaiMar 5
Ohhh yeah. You had to be there as part of the community in the early 2000s to really get the magic. It’s like LUE, SA, even /b/. I will forever look back fondly on my teenage shitposting days.
Show threadTomMaszMar 4
Slashdot (still with us, but not the same) Digg (back with us, but not the same) Freshmeat Kuro5hin
Show thread4amMar 4
Slashdot was my fucking jam back in the day. I even met CmdrTaco once before I really even knew what Linux was.
Show threadrodneylivesMar 6
I have to ask, is the software preservation 4am, who cracks the Apple II disks? If so then hooray, thanks for being so great!
Show thread4amMar 7
Unfortunately not! But anyone who preserves Apple II disks is awesome in my book
Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Mar 4
Albino Blacksheep, Cracked, early message boards (/., Digg, reddit, etc, before they turned into garbage), NewGrounds, RatherGood
Show threadheshMar 4
New grounds, that one probably hurts the most. There was so much free creativity happening.
Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
What? Newgrounds is still alive and still has lots of things posted?
Show threadcattywampasMar 4

homestarrunner.com

Luckily they’re still active on YouTube!

Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Mar 4
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.
Show threadEp1cFac3pa1mMar 4
I may be the proud owner of the Trogdor board game.
Show threadRhynoplazMar 4
My daughter got me a Trogdor T shirt last Father’s Day. I usually get at least one reaction when I wear it in public.
Show thread4amMar 4
The could fucking convert their flash files into HTML5. There are tools that do it.
Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
It’s working again, through the power of Ruffle!
Show threadRhynoplazMar 4

The sites still up, but I don’t know if it gets updated.

I think I’m about 15 years behind on my SBEmails.

Show threadpdxfedMar 4
The email. The email. The what what? The email.
Show threadRhynoplazMar 4
Everybody to the limit! Fhqwhgads!
Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
Lappier Than Thou - Sbemails 210 - robots

The Cheat goes undercover to infiltrate the robot characters that hardly ever show up.

Homestar Runner
Show threadrodneylivesMar 5
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Mar 4
HamsterDance.com
Show threadLuminous5481 "Murder All Zionists" [they/them]Mar 4
all the piracy ones
Show threadInvisibleShoeMar 5
Demoniod was great!
Show threadrockandsockMar 5

RIP

thebox

Show threadJoshuaFalkenMar 4

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.

Show threadurlMar 4
Killer chicken
Show threadThePantserMar 4
Stumbleupon
Show threadilillilillilillililliMar 4
Wasn’t this just a Firefox extension? But, yeah, I miss stumbling too.
Show threadThePantserMar 4
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.
Show threadJargonWagonMar 5
I did both, loved them.
Show thread🍉 Albert 🍉Mar 4
lost so much time with that. just one more click before bed
Show threadnotwhoyouthinkMar 5
I still talk about the facts and sites I stumbled upon using it. For a very, very, short time old Reddit felt a bit like it.
Show threadempireOfLove2Mar 4
Jiggmin. It was some independent flash developers website where he posted a lot of browser games and had a forum with a decent community. Played a ton of platform racer games on there and had a lot of fun as a kid. It’s been defunct for at least a decade if not more.
Show threadtalMar 4

It’s been defunct for at least a decade if not more.

Are these the games that you’re talking about?

jiggmin2.com

Games

Games for you at Jiggmin's Village!

Jiggmin's Village
Show threadTropicalDingdongMar 4
Craigslist forums were kinda the wild west.
Show threadramble81Mar 5
You just miss w4m
Show threadPetteriPanoMar 4
I miss nectarine demoscene radio. Now we just have hypr.
Hypr demoscene radio

The bestest demoscene radio on the internets

Show threadJesus_666Mar 4
You mean this Nectarine Demoscene Radio? scenestream.net/demovibes/
Welcome - Nectarine

Cool radio

Show threadPetteriPanoMar 5

In name, perhaps in some sense. I’m thinking about nectarine.ojuice.net, hosted by Yes.

Wayback machine remembers.

Nectarine 100 % demoscene radio

Nectarine is a net-radio, broadcasting over 2000 modules all free done between 80's and now. 4 streams (128kbps,64kbps, 48kbps,32kbps and 24kbps) more than 190 access and some relay worldwide. Join us and put your hands into demoscene circle. Founded by Christophe Le Sage, A webmaster of Orange Juice website, this radio gives the best sound of amateur musicians.

Show threadJesus_666Mar 5
Well, the content is the same and it works the same as far as I can tell. I’m not terribly attached to the old domain name when the (rebooted) radio works just fine.
Show threadF/15/[email protected]Mar 4
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.
Show threadAskewLordMar 4
Yeah, it was interesting to read people’s unfiltered narcissism sometimes.
Show threadbizarrolandMar 4
wiby.me/surprise/
Show threadnyankasMar 4

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.

Kagi Small Web

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

Show threadWhiteOakBayouMar 5
Second vote for kagi small web. One of my favorite feeds
Show threadI Cast FistMar 6
I supposed the alternative would be browsing i2p or freenet sites, pretty much nothing but weird small blogs, almost all of them focused on security and privacy tho