Favourite "Old Internet" stuff - Let's reminisce about the Wild West days

[Coelacanth]

After binging so much old Newgrounds content in the past few days I can't help but wonder - do any of you think there'll ever be another place out there where that sort of humor can thrive (apart from the Farms)? Or are we too far gone for something like that to ever return?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I miss the days where teen girls had blog style websites entirely in size 8 text with a landing page and a bunch of affiliate buttons. We all kept our pages exactly the same because HTML was still new to the general public and Lissa Explains taught us everything. If you didn't sign someone's guestbook you weren't really their friend.

I miss MSN Messanger but I really miss the old chatrooms. Hell, I kinda miss Yahoo Chat. That shitshow was entertaining.

I do not miss ICQ.

ICQ is still running.
I've actually used it to converse with @Bassomatic for laughs a couple times.

 

[FrigginWeeb]

I miss the creativity and insanity of old flash videos. god, we'll never get that again

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

Those AMVs from the early days of YouTube

 

[The Decimator]

The TV.com forums were my first introduction to most internet slang. Does that site even exist anymore?

 

[Ed Special]

Crazy Monkey Games. Always remember playing games like Thing Thing, or Raiden X during lunch in the classroom.

I dumped entirely too many hours on Raiden X and Pandemic on that site. RIP, Flash, you were screwed over by a company unwilling to introduce multithreading and x64 support

 

[Fag Albert]

I really miss the general culture around MMOs before it became the biggest genre in the world. Communities were a lot smaller, you got to know people a bit better. Even the devs were a lot more personally involved, and in some games, ranging from hosting event for whatever reason to crashing a wedding and murdering everyone there to advance the story they had at the time. Old guide websites like Allakhazam were definitely a big part of that too but that also falls under "niche fansites" a lot of people have mentioned already.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Weebl stuff. it's still good stuff

 

[temeluchus]

Picking up girls on ICQ in its early days.

Eventually needing things like trillian to operate the dozens of instant messaging accounts one would have 20+ years ago.

Weird personal websites, I recall seeing one about some old guy’s experiences in a secret “club” on his base when serving as a conscript where they would choke each other for some odd semi erotic reason. I have no recollection of how I came across that one.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

I spent a lot of time on the computer when I was a kid, growing up in the 2000’s. I remember the very first thing that I read was an article about some guy in the Arctic getting limbs amputated from frost bite.

Most of mine have already been listed (Newgrounds, Neopets, random Flash games websites). Spent a lot of time playing select games on the Nickelodeon/Disney websites. But they were all flash, so they’re long gone. Teen Nick had some entertaining ones as well. I played a lot of Webkinz and Club Penguin. I had a few Webkinz, Club Penguin, and Neopets magazines from Limited Too. Spent some summer nights watching YouTube poops and Family Guy clips recorded from someone’s TV, on classic YouTube. And Smosh and Epic Rap Battles of History.

There was a niche “pen pal” website that I used for a long time, named Kupika. I found it by random chance. It was mostly full of toxic people and predators (probably would have been some great submissions for this site). But I did meet my longest Internet friend on there. I’ve known them for about 17-18 years now. Every now and then I talk to them on Facebook Messenger. I pulled the site up in 2020, out of morbid curiosity and boredom. It was mostly dead, it was dying when I left it in the early 2010’s. I figured out my old account information after a little while. The site looked exactly the same as when I left it. Most of the people that I did talk to had been inactive for years, but I found out that one of my old friends checked the site every now and then. I talked to them again for a short time. Kind of wished that I had gotten some other kind of contact information for them.

 

[Coelacanth]

Crazy Monkey Games. Always remember playing games like Thing Thing, or Raiden X during lunch in the classroom.

I dumped entirely too many hours on Raiden X and Pandemic on that site. RIP, Flash, you were screwed over by a company unwilling to introduce multithreading and x64 support

If it helps there is the Flashpoint Archive - it's a program dedicated to making a library of sorts for old Flash games and animations. Of course a lot of the explicit (AKA: funny) content has trigger warnings on it (though you can actually edit them in settings so you don't have to keep looking at buzzwords) but other than that it's a really good program.

 

[Brett DeLawyer]

worlds.com
old webrings centered around Petz 1/2/3
old webrings centered around Myst/Riven
The SciFi channel’s MST3k chat room
dodging grooming attempts by weird (but tame by today’s standards) furries in BeSeen chat rooms
Ragnarok Online
ogrish
4chan circa 2004/5

why am I so old lmao

 

[Coelacanth]

old webrings centered around Petz 1/2/3

Mah nigga!

Some of the old Petz sites have been archived (downloads included!) like Sand'z Cattery and Carolyn's Creations. You're not missing out on anything though - the Petz fandom is filled with troons and SJWs (it was especially bad when the Roe vs. Wade thing was going down).

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I really miss the general culture around MMOs before it became the biggest genre in the world. Communities were a lot smaller, you got to know people a bit better. Even the devs were a lot more personally involved, and in some games, ranging from hosting event for whatever reason to crashing a wedding and murdering everyone there to advance the story they had at the time. Old guide websites like Allakhazam were definitely a big part of that too but that also falls under "niche fansites" a lot of people have mentioned already.

Thottbot and Allakhazam and things were the death of WoW - part of the fun was the rumors and scrounging around looking for things; that's all digitized and built in now, nobody even reads quest text.

 

[The Feline Solution]

Most of the stuff i miss is still around, it's more like what i miss is experiencing most of it for the first time: Using the original BitTorrent client and being amazed at the speed of downloads (i even remember the very first torrent i downloaded, the Cowboy Bebop - Knocking on Heaven's Door movie) compared to P2P, finding my first rom site and playing virtually every JRPG in existance (https://www.rpgclassics.com/ my constant companion at the time), getting my Dreamcast modem to finally work and playing PSO, Quake 3 and of course ChuChuRocket with niggas online, the first private tracker i joined and held ratio with my shitty 100kb/s upstream, trading Diablo 2 items on D2jsp... all this pure magical shit that the early internet brought.

Nowadays the magic seems to be just gone, everything is mundane and feels like i've seen it a thousand times before. I hate that every discussion to new games, films or shows is tied to a single platform like r*ddit or, even worse, Discord.

I also really miss when /tg/ was the greatest and most chill board on 4chan, WIP threads, good 40kgenerals, based Chinaman was a single entity etc. Also, daily LOST threads and actual discussion on /tv/. But fuck /v/, it was always shit and contrarian HQ.

But I ain't doing that. I prefer to be anon online and not have my face and name plastered everywhere.

The single most thing i miss from the days of old. I was using lots of random chat sites back in the day (Chatcity niggers rise up!) and everyone was just lines of text and animu nicknames. You had the odd proto-thot with a cam that was posting blurry pics from time to time but mostly everyone was completly anon, you maybe got to know the first name of someone you were chatting with a lot but that was the most you'd get. I really miss that, even KF somehow feels less anon than that was.

but you can tell an oldfag if they're reminiscing about snc or cj.

My eidetic memory for unpleasant internet pictures was immediately triggered and i'm now seeing a beach bum with a machete through his forearm. Fucking Consumption Junction, it must be decades by now that i last browsed that site.

It will remain a mystery whether he bought into his persona after so long of being Cool On The Internet or whether it was a notable example of "Oh shit that wasn't satire", and I'm not sure which is worse.

After listening to most episodes of his podcast with Dick and the revelations his thread offered when the lolsuit was going on i'm firmly convinced it's the latter, the armenian autist was always writing down his true thoughts and we all just took it for brilliant satire. There's no persona, there's just Saddox.

 

[Ed Special]

Mah nigga!

Some of the old Petz sites have been archived (downloads included!) like Sand'z Cattery and Carolyn's Creations. You're not missing out on anything though - the Petz fandom is filled with troons and SJWs (it was especially bad when the Roe vs. Wade thing was going down).

Oooh, care to share with the class?

 

[Coelacanth]

Oooh, care to share with the class?

It was on one of the forums. Of course there were the hysterical "virtue signalling masked as genuine fear" posts but one in particular was the one that made me decide the Petz community wasn't worth being a part of.

This bitch came into the general thread talking about how she worked at a clinic for abortions and how "traumatised" she was about the Roe vs Wade thing. She then tearfully went into detail about how she worked with two young teens that day and comforted them when they expressed concerns over how R vs W was going to affect the rest of their lives.

I smelt bullshit immediately but almost everybody piled into the thread to tell her how brave and strong she was. Bear in mind this was on a forum for the Petz games. I was so sick of it I just cut my losses and ran.

 

[NoReturn]

Those AMVs from the early days of YouTube

Tagging @LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] for the hell of it, lol
This video is 16 years old:

And THIS is a work of fucking art.
This is an AMV that was originally made in 1999, remade in 2004, and then HD upscale remasted using machine learning 2 years ago:

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Tagging @LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] for the hell of it, lol

Fun fact: I don't think i ever did an actual Naruto AMV using Linkin Park but i probably did use Nightwish and for sure i did a couple of Evangelion ones with Rammstein and Korn. I graduated highschool earlier and that year was the long summer of the weeb.

 

[NoReturn]

Fun fact: I don't think i ever did an actual Naruto AMV using Linkin Park but i probably did use Nightwish

and for sure i did a couple of Evangelion ones with Rammstein

and Korn.

I graduated highschool earlier and that year was the long summer of the weeb.