What are some old websites you still visit?

[Baklava]

Doesn't matter if they're defunct or not, just that they're still up. Whenever it seems like there are only five websites anymore, I still like hitting up The Fighters Generation. I loved going here 20+ years ago, reading up on characters from games I would never play, and looking at concept art and sprite animations.

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

Newgrounds

 

[BatterHomes&Gardens]

Newgrounds

If you want this to be a thread that works, make it a fucking link you retard.

https://www.newgrounds.com/

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

sonichu.com

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

If you want this to be a thread that works, make it a fucking link you retard.

https://www.newgrounds.com/

But everyone knows newgrounds.

 

[Baklava]

I'll add a few more sites since I was thinking about them. None of them are terribly obscure, but maybe it'll be entertaining.

• Anon message board for old faggots that I enjoy, Datalounge. Their politisperging sucks, but if you like Crazy Days and Nights, they have a lot of blind item-adjacent threads.
• Ulillillia's old Angelfire site is a classic.
• I've mentioned this in a comment on another thread some time ago, but I still love The Gallery of Regrettable Food.
• The Best Page in the Universe is more of a sad time capsule than a fun place to go, but Maddox was once pretty funny. I haven't read them yet, but he's updated the site as recently as five or so months ago.
• Jesus Christ, just out of curiosity, I looked it up, and MediaMiner is still around. They used to have fanart and stuff, but now it's all fanfic, it seems. Linkara was infamously horny on the forums there back in the day.
• Cool Math Games is still around.

If I think of more, I'll either edit this post or leave another comment.

Bonus:

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[Coo Coo Bird]

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html
Actually pretty handy. Also, Lemmy's Land, because it's cute:

But it hasn't been updated since 2012 and a lot of the links are broken.

There's also the Tam Lin site made by a lady who's a fan of the old ballad Tam Lin. She dropped off the internet in 2016, but considering she as starting to fall into Tumblrina stuff like genderqueer versions of the folktale, it's probably for the best.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

kiwifarms.net?

 

[Thiletonomics]

CarComplaints is a website about the said topic, and is still around and getting updated. It's still a handy site to keep up-to-date on automotive recalls and TSBs.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

funnyjunk

 

[SFINAE]

https://wiki.c2.com/

It's one of the first (the first?) wikis on the Internet. It's mostly related to programming and "patterns" which were popular at the time (the site's peak was during the OOP boom in the 2000s). It was frozen in 2014 after the site died down and started getting drowned in spam, so it's like a mid-2000s time capsule. It was like Wikipedia in that anyone could edit, but it wasn't purely encyclopedic, with a lot of "thread mode" articles (kinda like Wikipedia's talk pages but as the main focus).

One of the more interesting rabbit holes on this website is following the adventures of TopMind, who was a fanatic of his "table-oriented programming" approach and using eval and string interpolation to make his program more dynamic. It goes on for quite a while and he has many mass debates on the wiki.

If you are interested in programming and old computer systems, I'd recommend giving it a dive. I often ended up spending hours jumping from link to link, it's quite the fascinating hidden treasure trove of old internet.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

https://museumofzzt.com/

https://zzt.org/fora/

 

[Baklava]

Some (mostly gaming-related) sites:

• Darkmoon's Silly Web Comic is not up. There are some snapshots on the Wayback Machine. It was mildly funny. It has a TV Tropes page for some reason.
• Silent Hill Heaven is still up, but it looks like it fucking sucks now.
• Linley's Dungeon Crawl (precursor to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) is still around for those curious about it. The most recent build is from 2003.
• The site for NetHack is still up, too. Its most recent build is from last year, but no gameplay-related features or fixes have been added since 2019.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

https://flamingtext.com/

because I'm too fucking lazy to create my own graphic logos

 

[seri0us]

https://flamingtext.com/

because I'm too fucking lazy to create my own graphic logos

 

[Mysterious Figure]

Gamefaqs for the daily polls.

 

[Baklava]

This site is amazing @Celebrate Nite


Needed to see this in the Diablo font

(Second Diablo font image from here.)

Spoiler: bonus

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

Acts of Gord
Gaijin Smash
ED (though I have to say the writing was better when Sherrod was around, loathsome as she is)

На русском:
Луркоморье neolurk.org, Хомак опидорасился, такие дела. Но добрые люди возродили идею.
Виртуальные Суси, если не читали, погуглите, там не только про японию.
anekdot.ru старый контент доставляет, и его много, всё не прочтёшь
computer-museum.ru, вкурите про К-340А, Урал, М-1 и многое другое

 

[Baklava]

ED (though I have to say the writing was better when Sherrod was around, loathsome as she is)

I agree. ED's quality and preservation of old articles are nonexistent these days. It's a shame because back in 2007- 2010 (pre-Oh Internet), the articles were really well-done. Girlvinyl did something right, I guess, certainly more than Ass Napkins or anyone else who's tried to take the reins at ED since.

Out of curiosity, I looked her up; she works at Microsoft now. (Link) (Tried to archive but couldn't get it to work)

 

[Caligura]

I agree. ED's quality and preservation of old articles are nonexistent these days. It's a shame because back in 2007- 2010 (pre-Oh Internet), the articles were really well-done. Girlvinyl did something right, I guess, certainly more than Ass Napkins or anyone else who's tried to take the reins at ED since.

Out of curiosity, I looked her up; she works at Microsoft now. (Link) (Tried to archive but couldn't get it to work)
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I do generally consider KF to be in essence, a successor to ED. Even if Null thinks overwise, it's basically the ED of the modern era with just more competent management. The way the Farms' is even adjacent with various imageboards and has a reputation as a 'boogie man' in e-celeb spheres isn't too far off from the way ED was viewed back in the day.

Though to be fair 'competent managment' isn't that high of a bar since like half of the ED admins in the past were school shooters or drug addicts.

The Girlvinyl Era still ending up as the 'peak' of ED is probably the most shocking thing for me. I still remembered I had even a tiny amount of hype during 2020 when Aediot shilled- I mean uh, 'promised' his ED revival but it really hasn't been the same since the late 2000s to very early 2010s.