I spent a lot of time in chat rooms roughly 30 years ago. Yahoo chat rooms were fun, and also The Offspring's old website from back in the late 90s had a chat room. Also I used to get a kick out of the "Ate my balls" webring and the dance ones that started with hamster dance.
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My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
Yahoo Games
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.
Wormhole by Centerfleet
Or Tea Games
Joecartoon
The Dark Side of the Net and Goth Girl of the Week. There use to be a goth dating site but I can't remember the name. It doesn't matter I suppose. I will be dead soon any way.
I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists... but it is not the same.
skafunkrastapunk.com
epic music sharing...
also
dancingmokey.com
Memepool
Scary Go Round
Everything2.com (holy shit! still exists)
maybe freshmeat?
Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion").
It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone's experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).
Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.
There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.
Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?
www.ebaumsworld.com its still around but its not the same.
Also www.thingsididlastnight.com - it just said YOUR MOM in huge letters. Thats it. No ads, no images, nothing. Just YOUR MOM
Also www.mostannoyingwebpage.com (I think). Just an endless stream of popup messages with no way out
Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.
goldesel.6x.to for eMule links or bockwurst.6x.to for direct downloads of SW
Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
I was hoping someone else would say Bolt! That was such a great website way back. The message boards and games were so much fun. I spent way too many hours behind a computer at the library specifically to go on that website.
Yes! I made so many friends back then
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