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 No.13540[Last 50 Posts]

ITT we post classic Internet sites. Let's dive into our old, pre-social networking cancer Internet.

Links can be either from archives like archive.org , archive.today , oocities.org or maybe even individual websites that manage to still be online even though they've been ages without being updated, ala

warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

I'll start. Let's have some fun wiznogs

oocities.org/wjing_1/anime.htm

 No.13541

Space Jam was kind of ruined by normies for me.

I think Exit Mundi is still up: http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

Rotten.com had a cool library of articles with a top kek sense of humour that I don't think was that well known about: http://rotten.com/library

There's a lot of others but it's hard to remember them right now.

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>>13541
I was just about to link to rotten.com
Why is it still maintained in this frozen state anyway?

 No.16312

www.kibo.com

 No.16314

A guys website from 1996 where he writes about his favorite band, the Smashing Pumpkins. Apparently the reason that he hasn't updated his site recently is because he's in prison for raping and killing an 11-year old child.

http://anon27.tripod.com/XSpaceboy1/sam.html

 No.19327

Apparently there's a geocities clone out now. A lot of the sites still have those 90s era web design philosophies.
https://neocities.org/

 No.19345

http://cammyfan.com/

This site is run by a man who shows true respect to his waifu. It's over 16 years old now. All other waifufags better take note.

 No.19353

>>13541
I forgot to add exit mundi back to my favourites, thanks.

 No.19449

fuckedcompany.com

 No.19478

The Letters of one Still Living is probably the first blog I ever came across. I seem to recall some good /dep/-tier posts.

http://www.theletters.org/

There is one particular blog post from that era that I'd like to find again. It's about a habitual stimulant user's first experience with heroin in Malaysia (I'm pretty sure the story was set in Kuala Lumpur). I recall that there was a long story of how he acquired the drugs, how we was nervous about saying too much online, then how he cooked the gear and his first impressions. It was a riveting read. I think it was on sixthseal.com but I'm not sure. I'll try to dig it up.

Also from that era, there was what was purported to be the found diary of a runaway succubus. A sordid but compelling story of loss and drug use and all that. I'm almost certain that this was hosted on a user's personal webspace on thematrix.org around 2000~2001.

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>>19478
I found the first of the two links:
http://sixthseal.com/2003/01/heroin/

I *think* it's been edited since I read it over ten years ago. Still a nice example of what blogging used to be. Compare that and what Vice churns out.

Samefag sage.

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>>19345

> I'm ashamed that it's been an entire year without an update, but my life is beyond busy with career, wife, kids, and miscellaneous BS. I always dream that I'll have time to get even a little work done, but I can't see that happening anytime soon :(

I'm not updating the website now, but it's just on hold… I'll be back!

 No.22088

I remember an old site that was about Zelda ocarina of time and some theories, including if there is a triforce to collect in the game, also some true bits like the early version had a changing environment but it would have used up too much save space and some theories that could be regarded as creepy pastas in the modern sense and theorys of religion in the game. The site also had The X files theme as background music. I mean it's laughable now, you can just check the internet if something is true or not but back then such rumors were serious.

Back then in games I would just search for stuff that wasn't there and try things that were not possible. Like searching the whole game for Luigi in Mario64. I think I have played ocarina of time for years on no end trying combinations and if the NPCs would react. Maybe I am confusing it with Majoras Mask but combined I have played these two games for years of my lifetime.

 No.22089

>>22088

I mean like shooting arrows at the sun in hyrule lake (which probably wasn't hard to get since there was a sign hinting at it)

But I would try every combination of items, game world and NPC possible no matter how dumb or absurd. Sometimes you would find interesting bugs.

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>>22071
>PS - Today is the 16th anniversary of CammyFan.com, and this year will be the 20th year of the website.
>I started a Cammy website when I was in college, and now I'm 41 years old grey hair LOL

 No.22103

>>13541
>top kek sense of humor

are we being raided by 8gag again?

 No.22821

>>19327
Looks like tumblr vaporwave fashionable bullshit to me.

 No.22845

>>22071

>Wife

>Kids

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>>19480
Incredible story. Though theletters seems to be a bit pretentious in all honesty.

Also small bump. Would appreciate this thread staying around longer.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961227203847/http://ubl.com/

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 No.29825

https://web.archive.org/web/20030904101736/http://world2ch.net:8080/gro/index.htm
Early imageboard slightly predating 4chan. The site was mostly textboards, which you can also see through wayback.

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>>19327
I really enjoy these. I think I'll make a few myself. I really enjoy this 90s era of web philosphy. Something about the design and look of things from that era is just super comforting to me.

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>>22088
>>22089
Now this really grabs my imagination that whole thing of trying every combo, of looking for things that weren't there. I used to really try and dive into games as a kid. The early internet fooled me quite a few times (pokemon fan sites sent be on absurdist chases to find "god pokemon" that of course just didn't exist). I'd spend hours pouring over and printing stuff out from 90s websites thinking that I was going to be discovering soemthing that most defintely existed in the game.

Of coure eventually I got an eye to see wether things where shit or not, things that where fake. But I miss that feeling of being ignorant in a way. I feel like video games where so much more magical when I barely understood them. When the possibilities of the entire thing just seemed endless? That was a whole different era. I really miss that feeling.

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>>13542
Do you know where to find porno archive from rotten.com ?

There was a really old image, the tint of the image was yellowish. It was in Japan probably. Seemed vintage. Men were in suits and succubi were in dresses, it was very formal, but in the middle there was a big table, black I think, with a naked Jap succubi on it lying on her back with dark black hair and drenched in cum or oil.

Anyone know where to find that pic?

 No.29929

This site is still active today, but has interesting oldies going back to 1998.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything2

http://everything2.com/title/They+think+I%2527m+a+god

 No.29930

>>13542
It was 1998 when I first saw how a dead person looked like. All the cool kids were talking about how tough they were by going to rotten to see some parasites coming out of a person's mouth. The internet escalated rather quickly.

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 No.30832

Does anyone have a link that extensive DXM zine/site some guy made? it looked like a 90s geocities site with black background and green text. if you know what I'm talking about please link

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>>30836
definitely not it

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>>13542
I remember telling my mom about Rotten when I was 10. She was all "That's sweet dear". That one image of the hentai succubus with dismembered limbs stuffed into a luggage bag was the first time I ever tried fapping to 2D. Great memories.

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Remember link portals before there was a search engine named Google?

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The gallery of this German weeb website contained some of my first web faps, and damn, I tell you, they were satisfying!

https://web.archive.org/web/20051231204410/http://www.psycko-manga.de/

pic related

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 No.36727

This was my fav kirby fansite in the day: http://www.kirbysrainbowresort.net/

Somehow still running. I miss a lot of old Kirby fansites that eventually vaped. It's kind of crazy because they put so much effort into a lot of them dozens and dozens of pages with original content everywhere then they got jobs and careers and just vaped.

Another amazing NES-based fansite now defunct: http://web.archive.org/web/20120826131848/http://smackdown.myrmid.com/smackdown/

Rotten library, neocities per usual. Neocities is more like a mix between old websites and new web demos.

I love trolling around for old gifs here: https://www.gifcities.org/

I believe angelfire still operates but I only ever got cheat codes from there.
This place used to be on angelfire http://codehut.gshi.org/

Anyway.. I've been ramblin'

 No.36728

>>36727
>then they got jobs and careers and just vaped.
Just like what happened to the Cammy guy. Why do I find this so depressing?

 No.36731

I'm going through an annual week of reading about cults/obscure new religions, and after reading a lot about Scientology again, I just remembered an old favorite.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080610202356/http://www.battlefieldearth.com/news/betv.html
I haven't been able to find any other information online about this "high profile" studio, and no series was ever produced. Though I would bet it would have been a Scientology front, and this site might have been made by a member.
The last announcement was made shortly after the 9/11 attacks, which feels like how archaeologists and geologists can tell if something big happened by the change of artifacts or change in the earth's layer.

 No.36732

Old anime fansites like planetnamek.com, dbz uncensored, and that sonic X place that hosted raw episodes in .RM until the clueless admin got slapped with $30k in bandwidth fees.

 No.36850

I'll forever have a soft spot for ticalc.org. I'm amazed that the site's design is basically unchanged since 1997. That's remarkable.

 No.36873

jazz2online.com

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was the game of my childhood and that site has users who are still active and who joined in 2001.
Did you know? The composer behind JJ2 music was the same guy who did music for Deus Ex (2000) - Alexander Brandon.

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 No.38973

https://www.rippersanime.info

Any other old school hentai sites like http://www.aerisdies.com that you guys can think of?

 No.40376

>>38973
I miss personalized anime sites like this.

 No.40414

>>19449

Small world!

I used to lurk on that site's bbs for quite a few years.

pud, cheopys, spanky…etc

good times

 No.40415

>>40414

btw I was around 2000-2003/4 maybe. Can't remember.

I used to post as a .

I remember spending the day there when 9/11 happened

 No.40422

>>30832

fusionanomaly.net

 No.40459

>>22821
The great thing is that it's up to you what to put there. Some of the sites are software info pages, some are just personal projects. I use it to host my files, books, and computer scripts. I do admit that many of the "top-rated" sites are just 90s wanking vaporware garbage, but who cares really.

 No.40474

http://www.absoluteanime.com/
www.ebaumsworld.com
www.encyclopediadramatica.com
4chon.net
www.4chan.org/b

 No.40475

>>37756
>http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/meganekko/fulltime-a.html
I like this. Look at all that shitty 90s anime just forgotten to time.

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This is a screenshot of the first month of Gaia Online in 2003.

The other day, my mom was saying how she regrets not disciplining me as a child and that she feels if she had that I'd be less of a fucked up person. And by discipline, I think she mostly means taking away my internet access.

And I explained to her that if I hadn't had Gaia Online as an escape from my dad's drunkenness and beatings that I would have killed myself guaranteed. And it's true. Gaia saved my life as sad as that is.

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>>40476
>>The other day, my mom was saying how she regrets not disciplining me as a child and that she feels if she had that I'd be less of a fucked up person.

>>dad's drunkenness and beatings


>>She reproduced and stayed with the loser


Your mom is a piece of shit anon.

 No.42712

>>19480
good stuff

 No.42728

>>40476
I had a lot of associates that were into Gaia but I never got into it myself.

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>>40476
All i remember about this site is being told in highschool back in 2004 that some succubi in one of my classes had written a bunch of shit about me and posted a picture of me to mock it in some thread, and I was shown the url.

T-thanks for the memories..

 No.43934

>>22088
> I mean it's laughable now, you can just check the internet if something is true or not but back then such rumors were serious.

This is what I miss about early internet/pre internet days. Now you can't have any fun with anything because you can just google it and find out the truth of the matter in two seconds. You have to be willfully ignorant these days.

 No.43937

https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml

Here's a mostly in tact archive of Ulillillia's old site. I was sad when it went down. God bless and long live Ulillillia

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 No.45633

Does anyone remember this old site? It was made by a polyglot guy who spoke a bunch of languages, mostly European ones I think, and I think he was Italian or something. He had tips on language learning, and on advanced web search techniques. It was from the 90s and he probably updated it into the mid 2000s or so. I believe he died in the mid to late 2000s and the original site was gone but I know there were several mirrors of it. I think his name or alias at least was Flavia or Fravia or something like that but I can't find anything on it for the life of me. If anyone has a link it would be much appreciated.

 No.45661

>>43937
FINALLY! I've seen this like 8 years ago and couldn't remember it for years. Tried multiple things, knew it was something like lilililil, lululul, but searching for it never got me anywhere. Thanks!

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http://rakrent.com/rtsc/index.htm

This site got me into RTS. Makes me realize just how dead the genre is these days.

 No.46297

>>46293
RTS died because the skill floor to be decent at it is too high and the skill ceiling takes years of consistent practice to reach. The genre evolved into MOBA, which took the hero mechanics from Warcraft 3 and dropped the base macro and army micro aspects.

 No.46324

>>40480
this should not surprise you

 No.46403

https://web.archive.org/web/20031206032649/http://renandstimpy.org:80/

As a kid, I mostly used the internet to read textfile walkthroughs of video games or transcripts of old cartoons because I had no access to either and wasn't smart enough to pirate. Learned of R&S through old comics given by my dads friend which confused me because I associated them with Spikes Adult Party Cartoon. There was a site detailing the backstory of John K's conflict with Nickelodeon, but I can't find that one.


http://www.viciousgrin.com/

Found this site while looking into Jhonen Vasquez's work before Invader Zim. It's exactly the same over 15 years later, internet mallgothery frozen in time. Only difference is that I believe it was set up to where it would prevent you from right-clicking to save the images.

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 No.46678

Anyone want to be an internet archaeologist digging through 1990s usenet with me?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/introvert$20no$20friends$20$20before$3A2000$2F01$2F01

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 No.46681

>>29930
>It was 1998 when I first saw how a dead person looked like. All the cool kids were talking about how tough they were by going to rotten to see some parasites coming out of a person's mouth. The internet escalated rather quickly.
I found out from kids in my class talking about it as well, seemed cool at first but just how infested meat can taste good at first and make you sick later that's how it turned out. Similar experience with old /b/
>>31254
Note to self: if I ever get access to a time machine, travel to 2002, register plebbit for 10 years and have it redirect to porn.

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 No.46815

>control plus f
>newgrounds
>zero

Why is this thread 3 years old and brought up so little?

>control plus IRC

>zero again

 No.46817

Here's a search engine that only brings up those old style websites
https://wiby.me/

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>>46817
what the hell, I clicked the button that opens a random page and I got this
http://www.chloesgarden.com/

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 No.46820

>>46818
Touching, actually

 No.46821

>>46818
http://www.chloesgarden.com/Chloe_John.htm
Wow, that's quite the eulogy there.

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>>46821
So his neighbours abducted his pet pig, killed it, and ate it in a huge BBQ. Barbarians is the word indeed.

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>>46817

managed to get the Dwarf Fortress page. I'm impressed.

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>>46678
I forgot how these things worked. I remember seeing someone talk about how Transformers will never take off, how outdated and boring Zelda 1 is, how schoolkids wearing Ghost in the Shell shirts and Ranma 1/2 shirts are killing anime, and how Animaniacs sucks.
It's always interesting to hear opinions from actual people of the time instead of foggy memories of someone who was barely a zygote back then.

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>>46817
http://www.jimzim.net/DiabloCanyon.html
found with this engine, interesting site and information.
>>46297
RTS died because the last good pure rts game released in 1999, warcraft 3 was awesome, but it mutated to dota, like you pointed out. The last almost good game was, obviously, starcraft 2, but the developers focused entirely on e-sports, leading to what you said. Whereas most of the people that played the game where more interested in the campaign.
I agree that RTS genre can be unforgiving in multiplayer, i cant even compete in the ladder of sc. However i also have to say that in age of empires 2 and warcraft 3, even if you were pretty bad, you could compete with other high skilled players, I don't have a definitive answer to this, but it's probably related to to these games allowing the players to play more defensively without punishing them for "turtling" too much or having players rely on a build order, in age of empires i could play completely reactive to my enemies and environment.
The designers should look real life warfare instead of chess or other board game as inspiration. Real warfare is chaotic, bad weather and your otherwise victorious campaign ends up destroyed; Take the crusade in pskov or beginning of ww1 as example of this, you simply don't know what is going to happen. But in the rts genre you just stick with your build order execution, trying to perfect it, and that's it. I would like to see more randomness in the rts genre, weather, earthquakes, plague, revolts in the unit ranks or whatever, this should not even be remotely hard to code and can be optional or added mode for games. Of course eventually people would learn how to avoid or make the best of those things, but would still be balanced because of luck. And who cares if some chinks got angry with rng? Defense should also be much more powerful like in grand strategy; to this day is like 5x easier to defend, look at afghanistan.
And did you see the maps and gameplay Warcraft 3? How they simplified the singleplayer on the pretext of making it more accessible to new players, even though they are actually making wc 3 about e-sports, knowing that only maybe 5% play multiplayer.
https://esportsinsider.com/2018/11/netease-announce-2019-esports-plan-with-blizzard-including-720k-for-warcraft-iii/
I can't fathom how the corporations are basically destroying an entire genre for literally nothing but maybe assuaging their ego(developers). I could go on but i have hoi4 to play.

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>>46836
>>46821
I can't even imagine. I'm pretty reserved but even I might've found a way to get back at them somehow.

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>>36727
Ha, I helped lead a raid on the Kirby's Rainbow Resort forum back almost two decades. It was a very nice fan site.

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>>40475
Hey, I used to use a similar site!
http://eyevocal.ottawa-anime.org/beingupfront/
linked from
http://yukatakeuchifan.kiwibonga.com/
http://www.anime-fanservice.org/

I can't even imagine how much these influenced me for life in terms of what I'll fap to.

 No.47519

I am missing the old internet. It was a much more magical place.

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>>13540
http://web.archive.org/web/19970412205051/http://www.ytv.com/

This will probably only be significant to Canada wizards. In Canada, YTV used to be THE channel to watch in the 90s/early 2000s (along with Teletoon). Of course YTV is a pathetic shell now, and just like everything else, it should have ended years ago.

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>>47520
This station had such a cool style. It introduced me to anime and I still enjoy the shows they used to air on it to this day. Teletoon and Family seemed almost soulless in comparison back then.

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>>47523
I used to feel that way. There was a very brief time from about 1998-2002 where my life seemed to be "happy", or at least the closest approximation of it, and YTV is largely associated with that since I spent so much time watching it. Those days are now so far away and so unlike now that I'm not sure if they even really happened. Coincidentally, YTV's downfall followed alongside my own. Everything associated with the former YTV is now, to me, a symbol of the crushing realization that we can never go back, and the inevitability of my own agonizing end. The logo itself has some mixture of both longing and foreboding, and looking at it for too long starts to unnerve me, down to the arrangement and shape of the letters. 3 simple letters, stark white, on a purple, red and green facsimile of a CRT television. An existential monolith to entropy, floating in a black void.
This whole post probably sounds overly melodramatic and stupid to you, which is fine. I'm pretty messed up IRL and have strange feelings like this. It is an obscure feel that I have never seen anyone else have, and I have never expressed it to anyone before.

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>>13540
http://web.archive.org/web/20030205010055/http://www.albinoblacksheep.com:80/

Albino Blacksheep on February 5, 2003. I miss how innocent and whimsical the Internet used to feel.

 No.47534

Why is that generic site design back then is literally better than todays typical site design? All I see is lazy shapes, pale colors and abuse of user comfort. How is this people are ok with that?

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>>47524
I had to check and see if it was literally me who posted this.

I feel you brother. There's some System Crash and other YTV things on YouTube still. Sometimes I look.

 No.47554

>>47534
I'm not even sure if the issue actually lies with people valuing flashiness over functionality anymore. You get a huge cabal of web designers who make a living out of convincing big companies that a newer look with a ton of shitty JS effects will attract more customers, advertisers who get involved in that process and ruin everything they touch, and a ton of internet users who are still too tech illiterate and complacent to tell if something has changed for the worst. It's all bad faith and ignorance rather than an actual matter of taste

 No.47555

More about complacency: i've seen family members sit through ads in videos even when they could skip them, and when I suggested this thing called adblock they got all confrontational as if I was patronizing them with my techbro mansplaining or w/e. This shit is a lost cause

 No.47556

>>47555
i put adblock on my dads browser before, with minimal filters just to get rid of a lot of stuff without disabling website features, and he actually found how to disable it, saying he enjoys the ads

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>>46817
Opening surprise me in a new tab can dig up all sorts of things like Japanese kite maker homepage from 1999.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ea8a-tkkw/ito.html

 No.47629

>>47554
People always bought flashy things. Companies make designers insert shit and cut costs everywhere, not vice versa. You think we enjoy forcing tracking on ourselves? It's all conscious decisions by businesses.

>>47555
Adblock means you still use the crap website and it simply shows more ads to other users. The proper way to deal with ads is full boycott.

 No.47640

>>46817
Found some aussie guy raging about Seinfeld http://rosso.tripod.com/seinfeld.html

 No.47658

>>47640

This is objectively hilarious.

 No.47659

Also, /wageslave/ - /hob/ crossover find:

http://www.offtheboss.com/

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 No.47662

>>47640
I wonder what he would think about the simpsons today.

 No.47667

http://textfiles.com/directory.html

Heard you like text files

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 No.47958

>>46817
Found the TempleOS site. It's sad seeing a memorial to Terry on the front page

 No.48033

>>47524
I'm not as nostalgic about it as you are but I do vividly remember watching YTV as a child. I didn't watch very much TV in general but still something about that logo is unforgettable.

 No.48034

>>47524
Actually, a friend of mine in grade school ended up being one of the spokespersons/hosts for the network. I vaguely remember him doing some kind of ad involving pretzels.

 No.48035

>>36305
For some reason this isn't loading for me right now but I definitely remember browsing that site many years ago

 No.48036

>>13541
holy shit, I thought I was the only one who remembered exit mundi. that was the most fascinating site on the internet for young me.

 No.48107

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Not a classic website but this twitter bot reposts images archived from BBSs back in the day.

https://twitter.com/gifs_bot

 No.48114

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 No.48116

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Surprised nobody has mentioned these yet

https://vgmusic.com/
User-made video game MIDI archive. Hasn't changed a lick in 20 years aside from twitter integration.

https://modarchive.org/
Like the former but hosting original compositions in more versatile formats

 No.48117

>>48116
i dont know why but old sites like that first one make me feel a bit sad

 No.48118

>>48116
It has probably been 10 years since I last used that site.
It still looks damn near the same with the same content.

 No.48122

>>48117
Same. Like a fading memorial moving ever closer to its demise.

 No.48979

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Many people have a website that 'introduced' them to the internet. It's almost never the first website they discovered but rather the one which made them believe the internet was better than sliced bread.

At 10 years old Edtropolis/TheEddzone was like portable Disneyworld for me. Yeah I had neopets, newgrounds, etc. but only Edtropolis introduced me to a ton of things with "fan" in it: fanart, fanfiction, and just fans that shared my affection for the show. It was paradise.

I guess it was only fitting that as this decade was ending and the internet deteriorating in terms of how good it was that I rediscovered it on the Wayback machine.

It was like looking at a home you lived in more than a decade ago and realizing it was not only remodeled nearly beyond recognition, smaller than you remember, but worst yet: you weren't welcome there anymore, even if they allowed you in.

Yeah, the internet as an empire for me fell for many reasons from deaths of close friends to being discouraged by the unscrupulous. But this was definitely proof of how, in terms of how I saw it when I was 10 years old, it was now gone forever.

 No.48988

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>>48979
>Back when we could discuss our hobby without shills and cilclejerking. 10 years ago feels like eternity when I look back. But that's how adolescence works.

 No.48999

>>48989
personally it started going twice as slow

 No.49027

>>48979
>neopets, newgrounds
That was pretty much my general path too. My mother got me on Neopets to learn the computer and just occupy time, then why I turned 8 I found Newgrounds on my own, as well as AddictingGames, Runescape, followed by 4Chan, then game modding forums, then small imageboards. It's like I started on something commercial and safe made for my demographic, then slightly strayed a bit here and there until finally landing in the underworld of the internet, where no ads are played and nobody has a name. I wonder if kids getting on the web today are going to have a similar experience. They start on Youtube, then from there join communities for their favorite games, maybe a subreddit, then drift in to forums, imageboards, and eventually wind up in some sort of niche community where they spend the rest of etrnity.

AddictingGames played a particularly big role in discovering web 1.0/2.0. It was just a flawless, massive, master list of free cool games to play quickly in the browser without any installation. Games would link to sites where you could find more of similar quality. There was such an absurd concentration of unique games with quite a few gems interspersed (Even an ad-free Runescape client was hosted there). I think 2000-2008 was the real golden age of indie games, simply because Flash was such a popular platform for development.

I'm glad Flash is """being killed""" though. You will always be able to install the off-line player, the dev tools, and the browser extension (except on post-signing forced Firefox/Chrome). Plus HTML5 can interpret some Actionscript I think. This just means that dedicated developers and oldschool memesters can keep making content, but ads and malicious content creators will be forced to use less vulnerable alternatives to keep up with most people's browsers.

 No.49748

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http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1098540473/

Old ass chans, I think they're all dead except for 4chan,7chan,1chan,sageru and guro. Not much is archived. If an actual wizard here remembers browsing any of them, please tell me about it.

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>>49748
Put a random one into Wayback, an early gurochan:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041204200814/home.no.net/imgboard/g/wakaba.html

From there, found obscure amateur guro artist (reverse image searching doesn't seem to bring up stuff by them):
https://web.archive.org/web/20041129112551/http://yomogi.sakura.ne.jp/~oda-x/

and from the BBS on that site, a link to another artist:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041207141531/http://luna-tz.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

What was archived from this site isn't very good, but there's more links to try exploring.

 No.49857

>>48988
>.pl
When are you streaming again?

 No.49861

>>49027
indie gamings real golden age was the 70s and 80s where any kid with a keyboard could make a game and went on to huge success doing ti.

Kids today will go

Facebook > Youtube > Reddit > Twitch > become a tranny on discord.

 No.49967

I tried collating as many links from this thread into this:

txti.es/webring

If you have anything else of interest to add, please let me know.

 No.50081

>>13542
I remember being in school in computation class, the teacher let us play on the internet since he didnt know a thing about computers, It was great finding about whores in the morgue and turbines killing people, good times.

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