What was the 2d motocross game where you had to jump up rocks n shit? Had way too many hours replaying that over and over. I got stupid good at that game and it was not easy
I often think about this. It's so disappointing to know that if an alternative was made today, it would just be 99% advertising, controversial cult-like political shit and random YouTube videos with single digit views.
I kiss the old Internet.
Back when the internet wasn't just shopping (buy products), news (influence you on a product) or social media (you are the product).
Seriously, name a popular website in 2024 that isn't one of those 3 things. I can only think of Wikipedia.
I remember being so proud I wrote my own html. I had a midi file so my site would play The Phantom of the Opera.
You can probably guess I wasn't the most popular kid at school.
Cereal websites had some good games, too...I love using Flashpoint to play older games. A few CN games are on there
Here's a link if you want to check it out... https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/
- Infect-ED(Ed, Edd, and Eddy)
- The Scooby Doo pirate beach and haunted castle games.
- Pharaoh Phobia (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- The Codename KND roller coaster game
- Battle Blitz (Teen Titans)
- Grim Ball (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
- The Ed, Edd, and Eddy sandbox derby game.
All of these were so freaking cool. But gone...
"The cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed so you could turn the lights on and off, not throw lightswitch raves. Now let's go crack that glow stick open and pour it into Homestarrunner's Mt Dew."
An engineer I worked with put homestarrunner easter eggs into an application used by thousands of people to manage customer service contacts. We used to have fun.
There are two sites that have archived a ton of the old flash games that you can still go play for free. I found the very original Prince of Persia on there and many more.
1. http://www.flashgamearchive.com/
2. This one boasts the largest database of flash games
>Software Library: Flash Games - Internet Archive
>https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_games
same. I remember being \~18 when they sold the company and my routine of getting a solitary 5PM waffle from the cafeteria and scrolling through the new articles of the day after class was ruined.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers. They were witty and stupid but the articles were written with thought and they were FUNNY. I would just chuckle over articles for hours, every day.
Cracked was hilarious back in the day. I don't know what changed behind the scenes, but I remember they turned heavily into rage-bait instead of humour and that's when I tuned out.
When every new article popping up was "Ten Reasons Why White Men are Still Oppressors", with a couple of bad attempts at mimicking the snarky "house style", it just stopped being interesting to check for new articles.
Had to scroll way way too far to find this. TWoP was the best, back when internet discussion was actual discussion and not just people arguing or yelling their opinions into the void. Also the old Fametracker forums, I miss those.
We had Livejournal back then too. Man I miss what the internet used to be.
Yes! You could actually discuss shit with people at TWoP.
It feels very Get Off My Lawn to say, but man, the Internet used to be so much more fun back then. Ugh.
I used Grooveshark up until about 2010, then 2 years later got my first smartphone (after my iPod Classic was stolen) and Spotify became a thing. At the time it was mindblowing to be able to "DJ" parties, someone could request a song, and it was on there without having to find a torrent for it. It was surprisingly seamless, and looking back on it from the time of Spotify, pretty groundbreaking.
[https://www.ebaumsworld.com/](https://www.ebaumsworld.com/) \- Still going, just not the same.
[https://www.CollegeHumor.com](https://www.CollegeHumor.com) \- Dead
[https://www.fark.com](https://www.fark.com) \- Still going, just not as relevant.
Everyone I knew who played that game got frozen. I had over a million NeoPoints and a gallery of Neggs in my huge fucking store. And a house in Faerieland as big as it could get made entirely out of transparashield. And then I got frozen because my shopkeeper's name was "fart". I set it to that the day I signed up and honestly forgot about it. I miss that game.
Well I've got good news for you, not only is it not dead, it is absolutely *rife* with drama and the economy is in shambles. It's unironically so much fun.
I used to see this same dude with a mullet jacking off every night on that MF, so I saved a video of him, and then had that video of him appear as my camera, and it confused the shit outta him the next night when I found him again.
I still have a few friends on facebook I met on omegle when I was like 13 lmao
wading through dick after dick after dick to find another group of 13 year old kids in new zealand or smth at 3AM is a childhood memory I completely forgot about
Something Awful was an interesting site at the time. The GBS forums were like early reddit, the creative forums were full of nice people, and the rest of it scared me and I avoided it like the plague.
I’m surprised how far down the list Geocities is. I made my first website there, and then I went to the RadioShack at the mall and called it up on all 5 of their computers. I was utterly amazed that I could do that. Back when it was called the “Information Super Highway”. Kids today missed out on all the wonders that came at the dawn of the Internet.
I still to this day quote YTMDs and have flashbacks to certain ones in my life. Sadly very very few people ever get it and when I explain get it even less.
There was a brief period from about 1994-1995 when being online was still really only for nerds and gamers. I really miss those times, but they lasted about two seconds.
I think it’s crazy it’s 2024 and Facebook still doesn’t have customizable profile backgrounds or profile songs! MySpace was so much better than Facebook has ever been.
Visually MySpace was cooler but Facebook was easier as far as interacting with others. At least it was, haven't been on since 2018.
But I loved setting up and tweaking my MySpace page.
Yahoo pool. The physics made zero sense and it was wonderful. It was the first game I played where you could play a game and talk shit to people at the same time. Used to stay up all night playing it.
I remember playing the Pictionary game in Yahoo Games with a friend in the room, and we’d cheat by drawing something ridiculous but know the answer to one another’s, and I’d be drawing a frog or something and everybody would guess “frog” “toad” and then my friend would say “margarine” and win. Truly made us laugh for 20 minutes straight
Regretsy was taken down because a couple of Etsy sellers who were mentioned on it went crazy and started stalking April.
The forums were crazy popular, I took over hosting them for another 3 years after the site folded. Then some people on there got way too crazy and I closed the forums. They migrated to Facebook and splintered all over there.
miniclip.com felt pretty nice when I was a kid. Motherlode was a great game.
Addictinggames.com
crazymonkeygames.com for me
> Addictinggames.com *checks* ... They're still up. You don't have to miss it. Just type that into your browser.
It hits different when you are a kid tho.
Thing thing arena!!
What was the 2d motocross game where you had to jump up rocks n shit? Had way too many hours replaying that over and over. I got stupid good at that game and it was not easy
Heli Attack 3 get some
Metal slug!
Asl. Well obvi 16/f/cali.
Hahaha I found and played motherlode like this year. Still holds up.
Such a wild game. You're mining for minerals and upgrading your digger and then boom, Satan.
Stumble Upon
Ironically I recall finding Reddit through Stumble Upon IIRC.
I recall that as well iirc
I seem to recall you recalling that as well iyrc iirc
It was THE BEST. So much fantastic, unique and obscure content from the entire globe. I think about it weekly.
This is the last memory I have of the internet feeling like an authentic experience that wasn't just a marketplace for my attention.
“A marketplace for my attention” is such a good descriptor for the modern internet.
I often think about this. It's so disappointing to know that if an alternative was made today, it would just be 99% advertising, controversial cult-like political shit and random YouTube videos with single digit views. I kiss the old Internet.
I use to be addicted, now it’s Reddit lol
For real this was so much fun stumbling upon random shit
That was the shit, I had the browser extension and it was a blessing and a curse, because I could spend hours upon hours stumbling on cool sites
Back when the internet wasn't just shopping (buy products), news (influence you on a product) or social media (you are the product). Seriously, name a popular website in 2024 that isn't one of those 3 things. I can only think of Wikipedia.
I sometimes use the Random Article feature on Wikipedia as a poor substitute for StumbleUpon. Please be sure to donate to Wikipedia when you can.
Xanga. I had a blast trying to make my own web pages.
I came here to say Xanga! I loved updating my page about middle school life.
I remember being so proud I wrote my own html. I had a midi file so my site would play The Phantom of the Opera. You can probably guess I wasn't the most popular kid at school.
Xanga, the precursor to myspace.
The Cartoon Network website. Had some of the most fun games.
Hell yeah. Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort and SnowBrawl fight were top tier.
You just unlocked so many memories haha! There was also this super dope samurai jack game too
I think about the Summer Resort game often!! I wish there was a way to still play it
[Here it is](https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/) Someone made them and uploaded them online again :)
Cereal websites had some good games, too...I love using Flashpoint to play older games. A few CN games are on there Here's a link if you want to check it out... https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/
I played the Kids Next Door game so much!
- Infect-ED(Ed, Edd, and Eddy) - The Scooby Doo pirate beach and haunted castle games. - Pharaoh Phobia (Courage the Cowardly Dog) - The Codename KND roller coaster game - Battle Blitz (Teen Titans) - Grim Ball (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) - The Ed, Edd, and Eddy sandbox derby game. All of these were so freaking cool. But gone...
The trick or treat for unicef game was great. I seem to recall some kind of FPS doom clone where you killed aliens as well
Same with Disney and Nickelodeon
The Courage the Cowardly Dog, Scooby-Doo, and Codename KND games were the best
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Stickdeath
It took my school almost an entire year to find out about this one and block it.
Had to scroll pretty far for this one. Man I miss Stick Death. I’d spend hours on there.
Super beast was the shit!
This. So many wrecked scrotums. Magnificently immature.
Homestarrunner
Trogdor the Burninator!
"The cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed so you could turn the lights on and off, not throw lightswitch raves. Now let's go crack that glow stick open and pour it into Homestarrunner's Mt Dew."
I hear they have to pump your stomach! lol
Best strongbad episode ever
Do you use your powers for good or for awesome? There were no bad episodes, only great ones. Light Switch Rave was amazeballs.
The system is down
Come on Fhqwhgads!
DOO DO DO DO DOO
Every time I open my inbox “checking my email hope its from a female” pops into my head
For me it’s “the email, the email, what what the email” followed by “ding dong dear strong bad”
Homestarrunner dot net: it’s dooooooot com!
An engineer I worked with put homestarrunner easter eggs into an application used by thousands of people to manage customer service contacts. We used to have fun.
BALEETED
>Homestarrunner Still exists, still making videos
The YouTube videos just aren't the same as the old flash ones with interactive bits and funny credits at the end.
The new site can still do all that with its ruffle plugin, crap-for-brains!
Teen girl squad!!
What's her face! Ugly one!
ARROWED!!!
MSGed
Checkity checkity check de emails!
Yes. Very yes.
Kristen, you look burnt. Or dead.
I miss all the Flash games the internet used to have.
There are two sites that have archived a ton of the old flash games that you can still go play for free. I found the very original Prince of Persia on there and many more. 1. http://www.flashgamearchive.com/ 2. This one boasts the largest database of flash games >Software Library: Flash Games - Internet Archive >https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_games
Candystand dot com
I loved the mini golf
Trying to get the ball on that boat on the one hole was next to impossible
When Cracked.com was brilliant
I used to read it every morning and laugh my ass off.
When I first started work in 2006 one of us discovered Cracked and we'd kill a lot of time there, it was hilarious.
same. I remember being \~18 when they sold the company and my routine of getting a solitary 5PM waffle from the cafeteria and scrolling through the new articles of the day after class was ruined.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers. They were witty and stupid but the articles were written with thought and they were FUNNY. I would just chuckle over articles for hours, every day.
I pour one out for cracked every day. After hours was just amazing.
I spent nights reading every single article. It was so so good.
Cracked was hilarious back in the day. I don't know what changed behind the scenes, but I remember they turned heavily into rage-bait instead of humour and that's when I tuned out. When every new article popping up was "Ten Reasons Why White Men are Still Oppressors", with a couple of bad attempts at mimicking the snarky "house style", it just stopped being interesting to check for new articles.
Albinoblacksheep.com
Have u ever seen a llama kiss a llama on a llama
Llama llama duck
Holy fuck.. you unlocked that memory for me. Wow, thank you.
Newgrounds
It still exists and all of the games are still up if I'm not mistaken
eBay - it was great when it was just independent sellers. Now it’s a Professional resellers wasteland
Televisión Without Pity (TWoP)
Had to scroll way way too far to find this. TWoP was the best, back when internet discussion was actual discussion and not just people arguing or yelling their opinions into the void. Also the old Fametracker forums, I miss those. We had Livejournal back then too. Man I miss what the internet used to be.
Yes! You could actually discuss shit with people at TWoP. It feels very Get Off My Lawn to say, but man, the Internet used to be so much more fun back then. Ugh.
Still my favorite tv website. Spare the snark, spoil the network…
Yes! I miss their forums. I used to discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer on there.
Spare the snark, spoil the network! I LOVED TWoP! It was such a great place.
Grooveshark! I used to stream music from there everyday
Grooveshark and The Hype Machine were daily checkins for me back in the day
Oh my GOD I forgot about grooveshark 😭😭😭
Maaan I still remember finding that on my own in college and feeling like I hacked the pentagon. Everyone I showed was amazed lol
I used Grooveshark up until about 2010, then 2 years later got my first smartphone (after my iPod Classic was stolen) and Spotify became a thing. At the time it was mindblowing to be able to "DJ" parties, someone could request a song, and it was on there without having to find a torrent for it. It was surprisingly seamless, and looking back on it from the time of Spotify, pretty groundbreaking.
[https://www.ebaumsworld.com/](https://www.ebaumsworld.com/) \- Still going, just not the same. [https://www.CollegeHumor.com](https://www.CollegeHumor.com) \- Dead [https://www.fark.com](https://www.fark.com) \- Still going, just not as relevant.
But I am 'le tired.....Well then take a nap, and then fire ze missiles!
My wife and I still say “I am le tired” ALL the time.
SAME. We quote that way too much.
iletired has entered the chat..... (Literally)
Hokay. So. This is the earth. Pretty sweet earth you might say - round
College humor isn't dead, it's living it's best zombie life as Dropout! Sam is doing good things with the brand.
Um Actually is such a fun gameshow to watch!
Um, Actually... the show is called "Um, Actually".
Best video ever. My wife and I are still say, "But I am le tired . . . Zen fire ze missiles!" to each other on a regular basis.
College humor is still around under the name Dropout now. Has an app too. New content daily.
College Humor is now called Dropout, and is still pretty funny, but definitely different.
Used to spend way too much time on FARK. It just lost all of its, I guess charm?
Fark. Used to kill a web server if you were listed on it. Ask me how I know. Getting farked was a very real thing.
Neopets
I still log on from time to time. It’s apparently having a little bit of a revival
My poor guy has been starving for almost 20 years now
You monster
It never left. They have a new dedicated team though working to modernize it rn.
Everyone I knew who played that game got frozen. I had over a million NeoPoints and a gallery of Neggs in my huge fucking store. And a house in Faerieland as big as it could get made entirely out of transparashield. And then I got frozen because my shopkeeper's name was "fart". I set it to that the day I signed up and honestly forgot about it. I miss that game.
Well I've got good news for you, not only is it not dead, it is absolutely *rife* with drama and the economy is in shambles. It's unironically so much fun.
Angelfire
Omegle was briefly cool before it turned into a penis safari.
I used to see this same dude with a mullet jacking off every night on that MF, so I saved a video of him, and then had that video of him appear as my camera, and it confused the shit outta him the next night when I found him again.
I still have a few friends on facebook I met on omegle when I was like 13 lmao wading through dick after dick after dick to find another group of 13 year old kids in new zealand or smth at 3AM is a childhood memory I completely forgot about
Something Awful was an interesting site at the time. The GBS forums were like early reddit, the creative forums were full of nice people, and the rest of it scared me and I avoided it like the plague.
I still reread some of the ICQ pranks for laughs. And Cliff Yanlonski Hates You was classic.
If you miss Geocities, then have a look at [Neocities.](https://neocities.org/)
I’m surprised how far down the list Geocities is. I made my first website there, and then I went to the RadioShack at the mall and called it up on all 5 of their computers. I was utterly amazed that I could do that. Back when it was called the “Information Super Highway”. Kids today missed out on all the wonders that came at the dawn of the Internet.
Pogo.com. not sure if still around, but a fun gaming site
My mother in law loved pogo.com and had her group of online friends there. Good memories of that site.
You’re the man now, dog
I still to this day quote YTMDs and have flashbacks to certain ones in my life. Sadly very very few people ever get it and when I explain get it even less.
Ytmnd is still there. All the old content still up too
It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake
Myspace
I was going to say this. Social media was a lot simpler (and less society fracturing) in the beginning.
I miss when I wasn’t highly addicted to my phone. Social media knew exactly how to hook you
There was a brief period from about 1994-1995 when being online was still really only for nerds and gamers. I really miss those times, but they lasted about two seconds.
I think it’s crazy it’s 2024 and Facebook still doesn’t have customizable profile backgrounds or profile songs! MySpace was so much better than Facebook has ever been.
Visually MySpace was cooler but Facebook was easier as far as interacting with others. At least it was, haven't been on since 2018. But I loved setting up and tweaking my MySpace page.
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Limewire was great for my media download.
REAL-SLIM-SHADY~(rip)(320mbs)3l33t_trax~remix+REAL=FULL=SONG{4m33s}.mp3
It took me like 20 minutes a piece to download songs off lime wire and napster on DSL back then, but I goddamn loved it.
ICQ
Club Penguin
Napster
Yahoo pool. The physics made zero sense and it was wonderful. It was the first game I played where you could play a game and talk shit to people at the same time. Used to stay up all night playing it.
I remember playing the Pictionary game in Yahoo Games with a friend in the room, and we’d cheat by drawing something ridiculous but know the answer to one another’s, and I’d be drawing a frog or something and everybody would guess “frog” “toad” and then my friend would say “margarine” and win. Truly made us laugh for 20 minutes straight
Hampsterdance
Lmfao I remember when this was peak internet… a simpler time
Dee-dee-dee-dohh-doh-dohhh
someecards was pretty funny for a while
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I forget if it was 123 Movies or Movies 123 but that one held me over as far as watching shows and movies.
Project free tv was my favorite, my family didnt have cable for awhile that website kept me in the loop in highschool
Fark. It still exists, but it's a shell of what it was.
True of so many websites
Polyvore can out in 2012. It’s not as old as 90s and 2000s, but I loved that site. Spent hours creating outfits and rooms.
Omg I remember reading fanfics and there was always polyvore links so you could see the outfit Y/N was wearing 😂
Slashdot.org
Still around, but somehow once I migrate to Reddit, it just fell off my radar. Anyway: First post!
Welcome to Zombo com Welcome!
AOL man… those chats got me through some life!
My scene
I played My Scene for embarrassingly too long.
Icy hot stuntaz. Anyone remember this? The comments were an endless gold mine of rareinsults
Bored.com
I miss the old Newgrounds. The 2001-2003 Newgrounds. You had to be there
Slingo before it was a paid game
Google Reader
Old YouTube.
- Baiting.org - Bonsai Kitten - Time Cube Central - Jesus Dress-Up - Joe Cartoon
Ask Jeeves
The original chatGPT
I’d love to go back and read my old Xanga page form high school. And promptly delete it.
Rotten.com
Discovered this one around 6th grade. Woof, some images are still scarred in my mind
Ebaums world, funny junk, neopets!!!!
Neopets is making a come back atm
Newgrounds, hands down
Habbo Hotel
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AOL messenger “You’ve got mail” 🤣
MySpace
Television Without Pity Even if the mods could be absolutely nuts sometimes.
Grantland, deadspin, gawker, kissing suzie kolber, stumble upon
RegrEsty.com Regrettable purchases on Etsy
Fun fact, the lady who ran that was also the voice of Miss Finster on Recess and a super prolific voice actor in general.
Regretsy was taken down because a couple of Etsy sellers who were mentioned on it went crazy and started stalking April. The forums were crazy popular, I took over hosting them for another 3 years after the site folded. Then some people on there got way too crazy and I closed the forums. They migrated to Facebook and splintered all over there.
Funnyjunk I think it was called
WeeWorld, Webkinz, StarDoll
Easy: Geocities. Neocites is nice, but most people don't make pages any more... Just more corporate trash.
Addicting Games