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What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct? (lemmy.world)

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

There used to be a website called "thesmartass(dot)info". It had online emulators for old video game consoles as well as some flash games and a bunch of other stuff that I never used. The homepage also had a daily (or it might have been weekly, I've forgotten) artwork that was usually abstract but sometimes it got weird. Like, there is this one image that I sometimes think about, where it was a realistic looking image of a naked woman (or at least I think it was a woman) with a really long and flexible torso, and her torso is contorted so she fits inside a box.

I don't know when it happened but it seems like the domain has been transferred over to someone else and it's a completely different website now. Also, I did check the Wayback Machine and it is archived but it seems like it wasn't archived properly as the website is almost completely broken.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Suck.com

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

XPhilez

Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just.. Gone

[–] xxcarpaii@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Iminlikewithyou / omgpop

Peak Myspace-era cringe but so fun

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Something happened to fmh-child.org

It isn't what it used to be.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Ghcif.de

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] kubok@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.

[–] GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Searchlores.org

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

back when there was not much excite was very nice. If it would have gotten tabs like yahoo it would have went at least as long.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, whether or not I liked Sodahead, whether or not it was good for me, and whether or not it was a good website are all questions without definitive answer, but I sure did spend my teenage years there

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I loved DDRFreak forums and RODiary. RIP to both of those sites.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.

https://everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

[–] obelix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.

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