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You could do anything on zombo.com.
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.
The ones without paywalls and ads.
The old school Gawker sites like io9, Deadspin and Jalopnik.
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
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.
Oh man the day what shut down was a goddamn international tragedy
Luckily they’re still active on YouTube!
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
The sites still up, but I don’t know if it gets updated.
I think I’m about 15 years behind on my SBEmails.
it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
The email. The email. The what what? The email.
Everybody to the limit! Fhqwhgads!
It’s still around, and a while ago had a cartoon about going back to a website!
Technically the website is still around. It just doesn’t have any of the fun interactive stuff now that Flash is defunct. It’s where they sell merch now.
It’s working again, through the power of Ruffle!
I may be the proud owner of the Trogdor board game.
My daughter got me a Trogdor T shirt last Father’s Day. I usually get at least one reaction when I wear it in public.
The could fucking convert their flash files into HTML5. There are tools that do it.
I don’t think that new items can be submitted, but the old stuff is available here.
Joe Cartoon
I definitely miss Stumbleupon. Closest I can find to fill that void is jumpstick.app, which is also good.
Shit, that just awoke some memories in me. Back from ye olden days when people would just fire up their own website to host their stuff.
I still think of the Dumbass Bass bit every few years or whenever I see one of the basses in someone’s cottage or something. Or hear the song ‘like a virgin’
For me it’s the ‘Can you hear me now?’ animations. Every once in a while, when I see someone having issues with their phone/earbuds/whatever, those pop into my head unbidden.
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.
I just had a quick look at the Cracked homepage and it looks like they’ve got articles written by actual writers again, which is a nice change. It turns out that, while cheap, filling your website with bullshit listicles written by “Cracked readers” makes for bad content.
DigDoug? Here? MeFi DigDoug? How are ya!
Shit man, I tried…
Those aren’t “articles” there’s like a paragraph, and then a shit ton of pictures with text.
Fucking got my hopes up and everything, I’m gonna remember this one for April Fool’s though. Right up until you scroll down the first time it’s super convincing that it’s back.
Ooops… Sorry. I didn’t mean to mislead you.
All I did was scroll down and note that I didn’t see any articles written by “Cracked readers” - I didn’t actually look at the articles themselves.
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.
lost so much time with that. just one more click before bed
Wasn’t this just a Firefox extension? But, yeah, I miss stumbling too.
It was a website first that would load stumbled sites in a frame while keeping their button to stumble visible. I never used the extension just the site.
I did both, loved them.
