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.
Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.
Sure you could go there still now. But it’s an empty husk of what it was before. Flash died without any viable replacement for all the old flash games that relied on it.
They enshitified a ton too.
StumbleUpon
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
Digg.
I wouldn’t be on Lemmy today if it weren’t for Digg committing suicide, forcing everyone to switch to reddit. And then reddit went full retard with the 3rd party app thing, so here I am.
My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just… Gone
Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
Yahoo Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven’t been producing content.
Wow! I can’t believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking…
I learned about net neutrality through him
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.con one day as a kid just typed in a random amount of la and .com and that just appeared.
Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God’s sake !
