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[Slayven]

Not talking about stuff like maddox or acts of gord or megatokyo. Sites that had some weight outside of just nerds.


Like aintitcool news. That use to be THE site for movie and entertainment news. Harry Knowles had the ears of industry folks because he had a huge following in mainstream and enthusiast sectors. But now it just another blog. What happened?

 

[braves01]

digg

 

[Chezzymann]

Myspace

 

[Hatchtag]

neogaf

 

[Wreav]

Google.com/ig

 

[Slayven]

digg

Another good one, what happen there?

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

igoogle
digg
1up

 

[Nekofrog]

digg

this pretty much does it. digg > reddit, then digg killed itself. like it took a gun, put it in its mouth, and said the hell with it, cya internet

 

[titiklabingapat]

Another good one, what happen there?

Redesign killed it.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

All the search portals before Google ate their lunch.

Lycos, Excite, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo...

 

[whatsinaname]

There is one website that will never fade away, because it can be anything it wants to.

www.zombo.com

 

[braves01]

Another good one, what happen there?

I think some changes to the algorithm about which stories got promoted pissed off a bunch of power users, which led to less content, which started the downward spiral

 

[Sectorseven]

A ton of search engines:

Lycos
Excite
Ask Jeeves
Dog pile

Aint It Cool just got real slow with content and most of the time it was real sloppy grammatically. Not to mention the ancient design.

 

[entremet]

Redesign killed it.

And the founder, Kevin Rose, said cya lol.

 

[Darryl]

Another good one, what happen there?

i remember a lot of the casual users like me getting frustrated with power users and the downgraded quality of content that came with it, so we switched to reddit. personally just forked that time off into facebook, twitter, and neogaf once i felt like that quality had gone the same way.

A ton of search engines:

Lycos
Excite
Ask Jeeves
Dog pile

go.com? i think

 

[Third Strike]

ytmnd

 

[Slayven]

ytmnd

You just reminded me

Newgrounds

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Like aintitcool news. That use to be THE site for movie and entertainment news. Harry Knowles had the ears of industry folks because he had a huge following in mainstream and enthusiast sectors. But now it just another blog. What happened?

He's shit with money and all his good writers bailed the fuck out.

edit: not ALL. There's still a couple good ones there. But once the focus stopped being news/leaks/spoilers, all you had were shitpoor talkbacks and poorly written reviews, alongside whatever drooling mess of syllables and ellipses Harry coughed up.

 

[Benjamin1981]

The Verge was so promising when it launched and then it went down the shitter. As far as tech news they are irrelevant to me.

 

[TUSR]

somethingawful

 

[Brakke]

The Drudge Report

Spoiler

I hope.

 

[ThatGuyAgain]

AOL

 

[braves01]

go.com? i think

Still lives on in espn.go.com and ABC and Disney, too. It's liked an animal Disney skinned and is now wearing as a jacket.

 

[Interfectum]

Newgrounds
Soon: kongregate

 

[kingkitty]

newgrounds was the shit.

 

[crazyrabbits]

ytmnd

Yeah. Could have lasted, but the infrequent updates by the founder (literally, years between posts) and the archaic site design drove a lot of people away.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

ebaumsworld

 

[Oppo]

Fark.com

predates reddit and I think even digg

also Slashdot used to be a bigger deal

 

[TheWarrior]

ebaumsworld

They always went too far

 

[kirby_fox]

LiveJournal.

I used the now defunct GreatestJournal instead back in the MySpace days.

I think there was a huge Cartoon Network group back then too, because you could collect and play games on it. I wanna say it was CN, I vaguely remember building out some kind of "profile" on there.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Fark.com

Yeah. This was pretty much known as "every morning show's prepwork" for about 5-6 years.

From what I understand, they STILL don't allow cursing there.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

NeoGAF

 

[esms]

FunnyJunk

 

[Mington]

Spankwire

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Myspace?

 

[Sub_Level]

ytmnd

Yes. Also newgrounds.

 

[breadtruck]

Kotaku.

Yeah, I took it there...

 

[this_guy]

Yahoo

 

[Flappy]

Steak and Cheese.

Edit: Holy shit it's now a full-on porn site. It used to be viral videos in the early 2000's.

 

[ShirAhava]

Planet Namek

 

[Sou Da]

Yes. Also newgrounds.

Seems like all the big guys that came from there still post their stuff there out of obligation.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

photobucket

 

[EatinOlives]

Maybe it's still relevant, but I haven't heard anyone mention stumbleupon in years.

 

[Fury451]

ytmnd

Oh wow. Forgot all about this.

 

[DrForester]

Dogpile

 

[alundra311]

Friendster?

 

[Gentleman Jack]

There is one website that will never fade away, because it can be anything it wants to.

www.zombo.com

The newsletter signup is broken but yeah this site is unchanged after all these years.

 

[terrisus]

Everything on AOL

Contrary to what people would have you believe now, there were a whole bunch of awesome things on AOL in the 1990s.
Since the mid-2000s though, pretty much every "AOL Keyword" just brings you to an internet page that you could get to just the same without AOL.

RIP 1990s AOL

 

[JCX]

Was just talking about ytmnd earlier today. Kind of a precursor to widespread gif usage.

 

[foxtrot3d]

FML.