In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let’s harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite “oldie” is “The Website Is Down,” from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.
What’s your fave?
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I miss AIM. The days where you would race home and log on to see if your crush would come on, and then inevitably not message them if they did. I had the cash register noise set to their screen names.
I really liked “Freeman’s Mind” (link to episode 1 from nine years ago). It was super simple, literally just a first-person perspective playthrough the Half-Life games with narration instead of commentary. The narrator acted like the mind of Gordon Freeman and it was really funny. Sort of harkens back to a simpler time on youtube, when 9 minutes of a guy talking as if he were a fictional character while playing a video game was prime content. I remember watching this and in the comments I was begging Ross (the creator) to do Half-Life 2 when he finished with 1.
I’d never seen this. Will definitely be watching it all!
Damn I remember this. I can still hear the sound of the beginning of the videos in my head
This was such a blast back then. It felt so genuine the way he did it.
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newgrounds (The Impossible Quiz, anyone remember the square root of an onion?), Numa Numa, The Evolution of Dance, Shortbits 2, Badger Badger Badger (and other Weebl animations), Onyxia Wipe Animation, bash.org, Stumble Upon (a useful toolbar?!), all sorts of great stuff from that time
Square root of an onion… the answer was shallots wasn’t it?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7FYR72mr0E
Also homestarrunner and foamy the squirrel
Strongbad emails were my jam back in the day. Trogdor still gets mentioned periodically with friends to this day. Truly timeless entertainment right there.
That was perfect!
I don’t think it’s online anymore but at it’s peak I used to read every post on mlia before it became garbage
This just made some very rusty neurons fire, and I remembered FMyLife for the first time in 10 years.
…and it turns out it actually still exists, wow.
FML was the best. I had some app for it for android, not sure if it was the official one, but it was essentially just text and a few basic buttons. I could spend hours scrolling that thing.
Oh man, MLIA and FML were staples of my internet browsing once upon a time.
My first doomscrolling experiences were FML and I Can Haz Cheezeburger
FenslerFilm’s GI Joe PSA Spoofs
In particular… https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YlcXposa2I8
Edit:
The company gained a reputation in 2003 for a series of short films which parodied the public service announcement (PSA) safety messages used at the end of every episode of the 1980s animated series G.I. Joe, based on Hasbro’s toy line. […] By 2004, the videos had been considered viral hits, and Hasbro had sent Fensler a cease and desist order. — Wikipedia
I still routinely quote from these. I think they’ll probably live rent-free in my head for the rest of my life, lmao.
Are you Buzz Lightyear?
Hey kid! I’m a computer. Stop all the downloadin’!
GameFAQs video game cheats.
I remember walking to the library specifically to look up video game cheats on GameFAQs, printing them out on dozens of pieces of paper so I could fold them up and keep them in the appropriate game cases.
I’d go so often and get so much exercise from it, my parents didn’t even bother limiting my video game time.
I was a kid in the 2000’s so for me the oldies were playing the flash games on cartoon network, miniclip and armor games. My first real exposure to social media was YouTube 2006-2008 somewhere around there watching Smosh and whatever crap was there back in the day.
all your base, peanut butter jelly time and numa numa were the height of humor. I used to love old ebaums world
Joe Cartoon: Do You Have A Canoe I Can Borrow Please?
I spent an unreasonable time at the albinoblacksheep forums. Also Flash Flash Revolution was my jam!
God this was a trip down memory lane. Thanks for this. I miss bash.org stuff, maybe some of the old ytmnd stuff, new grounds flash portal, etc.
And IRC…
Not exactly a fav but I’ll always remember when Omegle was brand new. It was before they had video and it wasn’t full of bots. I was probably around 11 or 12 and I had a convo with someone I vehemently disagreed with some or other topic about. We were friendly tho and continued talking on AIM (friendly, never more) and at some point family came up and he explained how things that my father had done to me was abuse and showed me rainn.org. It was such a huge revelation ofc and led to me telling my family and getting my dad prosecuted. That’s why I like discord sometimes I get that old feeling of genuine convo.
I’m so sorry that happened to you. How brave you must be to have dealt with that.
Wow, what happenstance that you got help in this way. I’m sorry to hear you went through that, but so glad to hear you were empowered with the knowledge to break the cycle of abuse.
Crap, I recognize almost everything in this thread and some of it I consider relatively recent.
I loved forums and participated frequently on a roleplaying forum. Got started roleplaying on Neopets, moved on to gaiaonline as I “matured,” and ended up on a regular forum midway through highschool.
I once spent 12 hours on Newgrounds watching the most extreme content it had because I couldn’t bring myself to work on a project that was due the next day in middleschool.
That video reminds me of You Suck At Photoshop, which actually did teach me a good amount of basic photo editing knowledge.
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Did you migrate to AOL like I did? I remember downloading Ted Dibiase’s theme music off of WWE on AOL and fitting it on to a 4mb floppy. I thought it was soooo cool.
Usenet.
