This had no "weight outside of nerds" but I remember it being huge back in the day:
http://dbzu.3gkai.com/
http://dbzu.3gkai.com/
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Sure, was great for shareware and game demos in the mid 90s!
Maddox jumped the shark when he went on TV and looked like a complete dork. I remember that he had some sort of on-air meltdown too eventually.
StileProject self-destructed when he faked that interview with Marylin Manson. The backlash was so hardcore that in the coming months, he stopped updating and it was just a script posting random links. I wonder what happened to him?
StileProject self-destructed when he faked that interview with Marylin Manson. The backlash was so hardcore that in the coming months, he stopped updating and it was just a script posting random links. I wonder what happened to him?
ShadowKingpin
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terrisus
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Damn.
Sorry >.>
GeoCities 1996-1998 was an awesome place.
It really felt like an actual "community of neighborhoods."
One just doesn't get that on the internet anymore.
sparky2112
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DejaNews
Red Mage
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Mine have been listed, but it feels like Cracked.com is starting that way. It's trying to be... I have no idea what it wants to be now. It was a humor site with an occasional piece that was pretty serious. Now, it's really schizo with male rape articles and things you never noticed in your favorite movie/video game/ etc.
Gonzo The Great
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Every flash game website from the early aughts. Addicting Games, Miniclip, Newgrounds, Grab, etc.
Oh yeah, and VGDC. Rest in peace, Randy Solem.
Oh yeah, and VGDC. Rest in peace, Randy Solem.
Stormhammer
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I remember angelfire being the hotness early on for people making their own websites
Nah bullshit about the US only claim
MySpace was huge here in the UK back in 2004-7. Like, absolutely huge. Everyone in school right up to sixth form had a MySpace.
And then Facebook kinda happened.
terrisus
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ftfy
xDUMPWEEDx
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Going old-school on this one, but "The CLQ"
http://web.archive.org/web/20030406083254/www.theclq.com/games.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20030406083254/www.theclq.com/games.asp
Woow, I have no idea he passed away till now.
That was never a "huge" site. Great place for discussion of obscure indie/Japanese/lucha wrestling though. I guess it may have been relevant for bookers of some of the bigger indie promotions like ROH.
Other Wrasslin ones I can think of would be Scoops Wrestling, Wrestleline.com and 1wrestling.com Going way back to ye olden days, Wrestleweb.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I guess no one used this one?
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I didn't use it but I was aware of its existence through buddies.
Betanews.com, nvnews.com and rage3d.com were my usual rotation in early 2000s. Not sure how popular they were but there was a lot of ATI vs NVIDIA beef.
Also, sign my guestbook and join my web ring, please.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
I just didn't like GeoCities for some reason. I had numerous Angelfire and Tripod sites, though.
Angelfire totally sucked, but I kept using it for whatever reason...
Vipershark
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9GAG
...though it was never good or relevant.
Pervasive and annoying, sure.
...though it was never good or relevant.
Pervasive and annoying, sure.
I did...
Along with Migente, Blackplanet, Animenews Network (still use it time to time), Yahoo chat rooms, Fubar, and a banned site that begins with S that rhymes with song.
Cameron122
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gaming-age forums
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Anyone want to join my webring?
It was so good!! So much better than a site about Dragonball Z had any right to be. We lost a crown jewel when that went down.
Spiritreaver
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Man, one thing I miss about the Geocities days was having access to so many Play By Email RPGs. It really takes the D&D concept to another level as you really get to read and imagine your character's story.
I was apart of a pretty indepth Gundam and Star Wars PBEM. The Star Wars one was pretty insane, really well done and I think later evolved into some kind of MUD, I think it's called Star Wars Combine now. It's still going, so probably doesn't count, but it just came to mind.
I was apart of a pretty indepth Gundam and Star Wars PBEM. The Star Wars one was pretty insane, really well done and I think later evolved into some kind of MUD, I think it's called Star Wars Combine now. It's still going, so probably doesn't count, but it just came to mind.
terrisus
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Speaking of MUDs,
Legends of Terris
Back in the mid-1990s, when it was on AOL, it would regularly have 300-400 people on any time, day or night.
It's still around (been on the regular internet since around 2000), and there's still a very dedicated playerbase...
But, sadly, the number is down to closer to 30-40 these days =(
Legends of Terris
Back in the mid-1990s, when it was on AOL, it would regularly have 300-400 people on any time, day or night.
It's still around (been on the regular internet since around 2000), and there's still a very dedicated playerbase...
But, sadly, the number is down to closer to 30-40 these days =(
Coreda
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Geocities Japan is still active.
That looked like fun. Would be nice if there were more IRC-like text games.
That looked like fun. Would be nice if there were more IRC-like text games.
terrisus
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It's still around (at the aforementioned legendsofterris.com link)
The playerbase is much lower than it was in the mid-'90s,, as I said, but there's still a great dedicated playerbase there.
There is a registration fee, but you can play for free, and the restrictions of free players (leading a guild, level cap, etc.) are mostly not things that would really be a factor until one has been playing for a while.
I haven't been in there much lately myself (vision issues make playing a text-based game difficult), but anyone interested should definitely check it out =)
terrisus
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Indeed, that's what my username (and the username I've used most everywhere since around 1998) is based on - Terris (the game) and US (the country I'm from. Most of the game's players were from the UK)
I don't have any part in running it or make anything off it or anything like that though. I'm just in love with it.
manzoman96
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This reminds me I've been meaning to thank you for linking me to your Chrono Trigger walkthrough in my LTTP thread. It was nifty for trying to get the other endings.
I really enjoyed spark .com or thespark .com(can't remember which it was).
They had these bizarre journals like "Stinky Meat" where they would hide meat in their neighbor's yard or in a mall and take photos every day as it decomposed. Also they had "Stinky Feet" where one of the authors tried to give himself tinea by walking around for a week with plastic bags on his feet.
Seems to be completly nuked now. There is a link on reddit to one of the stinky meats:
http://www.reddit.com/r/internetclassics/comments/w4nq0/the_spark_stinky_meat_project/
They had these bizarre journals like "Stinky Meat" where they would hide meat in their neighbor's yard or in a mall and take photos every day as it decomposed. Also they had "Stinky Feet" where one of the authors tried to give himself tinea by walking around for a week with plastic bags on his feet.
Seems to be completly nuked now. There is a link on reddit to one of the stinky meats:
http://www.reddit.com/r/internetclassics/comments/w4nq0/the_spark_stinky_meat_project/
terrisus
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Aww, really? <3
It always makes me so happy when someone gets some use out of that =)
Barkley's Justice
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Platform.net
88HipHop
SOHH
Dave's Sega Saturn page
PSX Power
Gamelan
88HipHop
SOHH
Dave's Sega Saturn page
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Gamelan
terrisus
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How "old school" are we talking?
Their forums on AOL in the mid-90s?
Or NSider from 2003-2007?
I was on there. It was the first social network. AZN PRYDE
... I'm suddenly nostalgic for spiking my hair, dressing in all black Banana Republic clothes, and go clubbing.
manzoman96
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PantherLotus
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Not debating that they're dead/irrelevant to most of us, but you guys wouldn't believe the traffic myspace still pulls. 40M monthly visits (I swear I saw that just a few weeks ago but I could be wrong). And Yahoo is one of the biggest places on the fucking planet. They wield sooo much power over the content you see. Not as much as Facebook and Reddit, but they are absolutely up there.
Sectorseven
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Wish Yahoo auctions was still around. Ebay needs competition.
Bobby Roberts
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It's eventually going to move to being just a video/podcast network. It's been moving that way for a couple years now.
Basically, CollegeHumor got to where Cracked wanted to go before Cracked did.
Wolf Dawgz
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How "old school" are we talking?
Their forums on AOL in the mid-90s?
Or NSider from 2003-2007?
I didn't know you could have Chrono Trigger avatars on there. Or that someone would even keep the same one since at least 2007.
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