I swear I remember some precursor to YouTube somewhere
Dailymotion ?
I remember there being an app called RealPlayer that my brothers had installed on our family computer back in late 1990 or 2000. There, you select a 320pi that was streamed to you via the internet. Could that be what you’re thinking of?
edit: I did some searching and this very useful Timeline of online video, which might be helpful in your search.
No, I’m not that old. YouTube existed when I was growing up but it wasn’t really huge until a bit later. Thanks for the video tho, I’ll check it.
Anyone remember Happy Puppy?
There used to be rotten.com, which posted extremely disturbing pictures and I don’t miss that part of it. But I do miss the Rotten Library, which used to be a bastion of suppressed literature.
My old stomping grounds, the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch.
I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!
I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
They were trying to tell you to touch grass
yeah haha that was a bit annoying!
(Link works like stumbleupon basically)
ooh, neat! ty!
Reddit. Unfortunately it’s defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.
The Zionists and American fascists seem to be taking it over too.
r/politics was mass censoring any coverage of the Jimmy Kimmel debacle recently.
It was defunct long before that.
Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
https://homestarrunner.com/I wanted to say this too, but yeah they are still here. And their latest cartoon is relevant too.
Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
ZOMBO COM!
I make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
I hear anything is possible at that website! Anything at all! The infinite is possible! The unattainable is unknown!
Zombocom was and still is the only website in the world.
It’s not defunct tho… Newgrounds is still around.
Actually, none of my favorite websites are defunct. Something Awful, LiveJournal, and Penny-Arcade are also still going.
Long live the old internet.
YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it’s effectively dead.
deleted by creator
Forgot about that one
not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
Cracked had a 10/10 movie podcast that was stopped abruptly (after it was bought up & butchered ,laying off like 100 staff) & it was the best movie podcast.
i fondly remember one post once that had me in tears, about teaching somali pirates about ebay
I liked them until they got political. Totally ruined their vibe.
typical dot world
I wouldn’t say it was a number one favorite, but I feel like the internet isn’t the same without
timecube.comTW: conspiracy nonsense, racism, crimes against grammar https://web.archive.org/web/20050829015921/http://www.timecube.com/
Rip Stumble upon.
No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean the online file storage (would now be called ‘cloud’ storage) site that it was before it died and Tom bought the domain.
It had an astounding 300MB of space available for free, much more than the contemporary competition.
Of course now there’s Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Myspace was just too far ahead of their time.
300mb is pretty freaking decent
StumbleUpon
Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.
Florida man
I used to love IMDB before it got taken over. Especially the old forums where pretty much every TV show, every actor, etc… all had a forum on their page to discuss.
I would spend hours on there discussing the latest episodes of BSG, or Lost, or what have you. It was legitimately a water cooler for television watchers when no one in the real world shared the same television interests as me.
For Lost, the number of debates during that first couple seasons about what the connection would be in Locke and Hume being named after philosophers who wrote on human nature.
Or basically an easy place to go and discuss any thoughts or questions about a movie you just watched, or to find out if anyone else felt like an actor’s performance was good/bad/etc…
It was just a fun place to hang out for a movie/TV buff. When they took it away, I was pretty sad.
