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Neocities and just generally when it was cool for everyone to have their own personal website rather than having profiles on the major platforms.
Should be easier than ever today.
Sure! I don't really care what people use, I'd just like to see more of it. It's also on me to be part of the change I want to see, because I have my domain and everything, but I haven't given myself the time to set up my site how I want.
Literally any website that had flash games. I miss scrolling through and having thousands of games to play.
mulletsgalore.com
The OCP, before it was hardocp.
Using metacrawler.com before google was a thing.
The old school Gawker sites like io9, Deadspin and Jalopnik.
The ones without paywalls and ads.
MySpace and Facebook from before 2010. There's not really any social media that's designed to show me posts from my friends and nothing else. Now whenever I open up Facebook I am just shown shit from people and pages I never subscribed to and ads.
Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I'd have a solution for that, but that's not happening.
Unpopular opinion: Google?
Back before it sucked.
Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago
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what.cd
homestarrunner.com
Luckily they're still active on YouTube!
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
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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.
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bash.org
I don't think that new items can be submitted, but the old stuff is available here.
Original Neopets.
Stumbleupon.
Early Reddit.
Killfrog.com
I definitely miss Stumbleupon. Closest I can find to fill that void is jumpstick.app, which is also good.
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Stumbleupon
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.
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Joe Cartoon
ytmnd. Technically it still exists but the magic is gone
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.
Brunching Shuttlecocks. Fucking hilarious comedy site with daily posts. Can't find any remnants of it out there.
YES! I happen to know a bit about that!
Half of it, Lore Sjöberg, is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/loresjoberg.bsky.social I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear from someone else who remembers Brunching!
He has a website where he's posted some of his work since, called Bad Gods: https://badgods.com/
And there's a Discord where old Brunching fans hang out, Brunchma Expats, I can't send an invite at the moment but I'll try to remember to do it when I get back to the house!
Oh man, thanks! I just spent an hour reading his bluesky. Still funny as shit.
He is!
Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)
Digg (back with us, but not the same)
Freshmeat
Kuro5hin
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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.
They are still around and thriving. Keywords to search for are: personal web, small web, indie web
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