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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?

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What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?

TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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  • CoolCademM@lemmy.org
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    I swear I remember some precursor to YouTube somewhere

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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      I remember there being an app called RealPlayer that my brothers had installed on our family computer back in late 1990 or 2000. There, you select a 320pi that was streamed to you via the internet. Could that be what you’re thinking of?

      edit: I did some searching and this very useful Timeline of online video, which might be helpful in your search.

      • CoolCademM@lemmy.org
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        No, I’m not that old. YouTube existed when I was growing up but it wasn’t really huge until a bit later. Thanks for the video tho, I’ll check it.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
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      24 hours ago

      Dailymotion ?

  • RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    StumbleUpon

  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    www.google.com

    Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    Miniclip.com.

    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.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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      They enshitified a ton too.

  • chisel@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Reddit. Unfortunately it’s defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.

    • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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      The Zionists and American fascists seem to be taking it over too.

      r/politics was mass censoring any coverage of the Jimmy Kimmel debacle recently.

      • blarghly@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It was defunct long before that.

  • gilokee@lemmy.world
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    I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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      I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.

      • blarghly@lemmy.world
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        They were trying to tell you to touch grass

      • gilokee@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        yeah haha that was a bit annoying!

    • WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Gotcha fam

      (Link works like stumbleupon basically)

      • gilokee@lemmy.world
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        ooh, neat! ty!

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja

    They were super early YouTube.

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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      Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.

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        There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven’t been producing content.

    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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      Wow! I can’t believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking…

      • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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        I learned about net neutrality through him

  • rodneylives@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • blarth@thelemmy.club
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    Ytmnd.com

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?

  • deltapi@lemmy.world
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    Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
    https://homestarrunner.com/

    • chunes@lemmy.world
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      I wanted to say this too, but yeah they are still here. And their latest cartoon is relevant too.

      https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

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    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

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    reddit

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    What.cd?

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      So hard to keep a ratio, too

      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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        lol yeah, not the best tracker to learn on but eventually found some workarounds

        I think simplest was finding heavy scene packs to import/reverify from easy generals. Less competition due to disk space requirement and better at saturating shared box ratecaps which let occasional crumbs to fall through. Worked on hdbits too IIRC.

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          Ya and at that point it was almost like time is money and you’re better off buying the music 😂

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