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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

The 2000s Cartoon Network US site and Nitrome ( still alive but feels like a shell of its former glory ).

I know I can still play a lot of the old CN flash games on Flash Point, but it's not as aesthetically satisfying as the old CN site.

As for Nitrome, I got a zip file that contained a lot of the games since they ain't available on Flash Point and I don't wanna use the modern site. The old games like Mutiny or IceBreakers are still kinda fun, even if games like Rubble Trouble, for some reason, don't run well on my potato desktop under Ruffle.

Those were 2 of my favorite game sites in the 2000s, before I learned about NotDoppler.

Edit:

After looking at various comments, gonna say I remember the old Pencilmation series back when there was maybe a few different shorts on their website. Back when evil blue pen man was the big bad. Before they, or whatever copycat it was, started making tons of them on yt that are nothing but mass produced slop. Lived long enough to become a villain.

I also remembered an old PopTarts website with some dumb flash game about going down the red carpet without getting toasted and/or eaten ( IIRC ) that lead to me finding Pencilmation.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Heartless Bitches.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I guess I can say Homestar Runner and now the Homestar Runner Wiki.

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

You could do anything on zombo.com.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mesa@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Literally any website that had flash games. I miss scrolling through and having thousands of games to play.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

The ones without paywalls and ads.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

The old school Gawker sites like io9, Deadspin and Jalopnik.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion: Google?

Back before it sucked.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

A bit of the Google that was like that persists as the 'web' subsearch. The site at https://udm14.com/ exists purely as a frontend to that search. It's not exactly like the old Google, it's still too ready to throw Youtube videos at the top of the results, but it's still much easier to find interesting websites that way than Google's default search.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

mulletsgalore.com

The OCP, before it was hardocp.

Using metacrawler.com before google was a thing.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (8 children)

homestarrunner.com

Luckily they're still active on YouTube!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

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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[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Original Neopets.

Stumbleupon.

Early Reddit.

Killfrog.com

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I definitely miss Stumbleupon. Closest I can find to fill that void is jumpstick.app, which is also good.

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[–] hesh@quokk.au 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ytmnd. Technically it still exists but the magic is gone

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 20 hours ago

https://bash-org-archive.com/

I don't think that new items can be submitted, but the old stuff is available here.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)

Digg (back with us, but not the same)

Freshmeat

Kuro5hin

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Tywele@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

They are still around and thriving. Keywords to search for are: personal web, small web, indie web

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[–] CodandChips@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Stumbleupon it was how I found Reddit

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Zombocom

You could do anything at Zombo-com

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