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Luckily they’re still active on YouTube!
The sites still up, but I don’t know if it gets updated.
I think I’m about 15 years behind on my SBEmails.
The email. The email. The what what? The email.
Everybody to the limit! Fhqwhgads!
it does! And they even had a new sbemail fairly recently! https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
Technically the website is still around. It just doesn’t have any of the fun interactive stuff now that Flash is defunct. It’s where they sell merch now.
I may be the proud owner of the Trogdor board game.
My daughter got me a Trogdor T shirt last Father’s Day. I usually get at least one reaction when I wear it in public.
It’s working again, through the power of Ruffle!
The could fucking convert their flash files into HTML5. There are tools that do it.
It’s still around, and a while ago had a cartoon about going back to a website!
AND at their website, which now uses Ruffle as its Flash player!
Cracked in it’s prime was fucking amazing.
Like, it’s the type of “just stay here” website everyone keeps trying to make.
On any random day they’d post like an article every 15 minutes. No matter when you needed to kill 15-30 there was something funny and usually informative.
There was probably 5 years straight I didn’t poop without reading an article on Cracked.
There’s no other quality stream of content like that since.
I just had a quick look at the Cracked homepage and it looks like they’ve got articles written by actual writers again, which is a nice change. It turns out that, while cheap, filling your website with bullshit listicles written by “Cracked readers” makes for bad content.
Shit man, I tried…
Those aren’t “articles” there’s like a paragraph, and then a shit ton of pictures with text.
Fucking got my hopes up and everything, I’m gonna remember this one for April Fool’s though. Right up until you scroll down the first time it’s super convincing that it’s back.
Ooops… Sorry. I didn’t mean to mislead you.
All I did was scroll down and note that I didn’t see any articles written by “Cracked readers” - I didn’t actually look at the articles themselves.
DigDoug? Here? MeFi DigDoug? How are ya!
I think that must be someone else, I don’t know what MeFi is, I’m afraid.
Aah okay. “MeFi” is “Metafilter,” another website out there. where I’ve seen a different DigDoug. It’s a cool name anyway.
Stumbleupon
lost so much time with that. just one more click before bed
Wasn’t this just a Firefox extension? But, yeah, I miss stumbling too.
It was a website first that would load stumbled sites in a frame while keeping their button to stumble visible. I never used the extension just the site.
I did both, loved them.
I still talk about the facts and sites I stumbled upon using it. For a very, very, short time old Reddit felt a bit like it.
Unpopular opinion: Google?
Back before it sucked.
Honestly, yeah, my first thought is that I miss the Google and YouTube from 15 years ago
Searching for anything on YouTube now is a nightmare
It’s crazy that there is a whole generation of people who will never know how good google was at some point. You could find all the obscure shit. How often i just googled a serial number or some weird machinery to find parts, and people thought that i’m some sort of wizard. Try that now
A bit of the Google that was like that persists as the ‘web’ subsearch. The site at https://udm14.com/ exists purely as a frontend to that search. It’s not exactly like the old Google, it’s still too ready to throw Youtube videos at the top of the results, but it’s still much easier to find interesting websites that way than Google’s default search.
ytmnd. Technically it still exists but the magic is gone
Ohhh yeah. You had to be there as part of the community in the early 2000s to really get the magic. It’s like LUE, SA, even /b/. I will forever look back fondly on my teenage shitposting days.
Slashdot (still with us, but not the same)
Digg (back with us, but not the same)
Freshmeat
Kuro5hin
Slashdot was my fucking jam back in the day. I even met CmdrTaco once before I really even knew what Linux was.
I have to ask, is the software preservation 4am, who cracks the Apple II disks? If so then hooray, thanks for being so great!
Unfortunately not! But anyone who preserves Apple II disks is awesome in my book
The 2000s Cartoon Network US site and Nitrome ( still alive but feels like a shell of its former glory ).
I know I can still play a lot of the old CN flash games on Flash Point, but it’s not as aesthetically satisfying as the old CN site.
As for Nitrome, I got a zip file that contained a lot of the games since they ain’t available on Flash Point and I don’t wanna use the modern site. The old games like Mutiny or IceBreakers are still kinda fun, even if games like Rubble Trouble, for some reason, don’t run well on my potato desktop under Ruffle.
Those were 2 of my favorite game sites in the 2000s, before I learned about NotDoppler.
Edit:
After looking at various comments, gonna say I remember the old Pencilmation series back when there was maybe a few different shorts on their website. Back when evil blue pen man was the big bad. Before they, or whatever copycat it was, started making tons of them on yt that are nothing but mass produced slop. Lived long enough to become a villain.
I also remembered an old PopTarts website with some dumb flash game about going down the red carpet without getting toasted and/or eaten ( IIRC ) that lead to me finding Pencilmation.
https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118
Newgrounds bringing back flash.
Unsanitized blogs where people just spilled out their thoughts. Overwhelmingly were they inconsequential, but it was still a funny little peek into the lives of people you’d never know. You can’t do that sort of thing as freely anymore, between doxxing, scraper swarms, and the abundance of lunatics online. The barrier to entry is higher and the risks greater.
These blogs do still exist, they just lack discoverability because they‘re not focusing on SEO. You might want to give Kagi Small Web a go. It‘s their explicit goal to promote these kinds of websites.
It‘s not quite the same as the good old days, but it‘s probably as close as we can get right now.
I supposed the alternative would be browsing i2p or freenet sites, pretty much nothing but weird small blogs, almost all of them focused on security and privacy tho
Second vote for kagi small web. One of my favorite feeds
They are still around and thriving. Keywords to search for are: personal web, small web, indie web
Yeah, it was interesting to read people’s unfiltered narcissism sometimes. Just pages and pages of journal entries about how they were a genius and their agonizing over every little social interaction and relationship in their life. That had zero traffic of commentary.
I never ever understood any of it. But it was scary to realize some people really do think of their life as a novel and they are the main character struggling to some liberation or something.
All my blogs were just random nonsense or short fictional pieces. I could never take the ‘dear diary’ stuff seriously.
Most of my friends would just post random funny links or talk about something they did that day and if it was cool or not. I never had the privilege of socializing with people who were writing autobiographical novels on the internet.
Zombocom
You could do anything at Zombo-com
Good news!
I think that one still exists?
Sadly was taken over and no longer has the iconic voice and music. Now it’s just some crap TTS without the same level of whimsy.
It doesn’t use flash anymore so it’s dead to me
edit: wtf, did it change hands recently? they fucked it up
The current owner bought the domain when it was available, and since they dont own the previous content they wont post it. They do have a notice asking the original owner to contact them though. /u/DavidGA did post that theres https://html5zombo.com/ which seems to be the OG content
MySpace and Facebook from before 2010. There’s not really any social media that’s designed to show me posts from my friends and nothing else. Now whenever I open up Facebook I am just shown shit from people and pages I never subscribed to and ads.
Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I’d have a solution for that, but that’s not happening.
I definitely miss Stumbleupon. Closest I can find to fill that void is jumpstick.app, which is also good.
Shit, that just awoke some memories in me. Back from ye olden days when people would just fire up their own website to host their stuff.
I still think of the Dumbass Bass bit every few years or whenever I see one of the basses in someone’s cottage or something. Or hear the song ‘like a virgin’
For me it’s the ‘Can you hear me now?’ animations. Every once in a while, when I see someone having issues with their phone/earbuds/whatever, those pop into my head unbidden.
You could do anything on zombo.com.
Stumbleupon it was how I found Reddit
The ones without paywalls and ads.
I guess I can say Homestar Runner and now the Homestar Runner Wiki.
As mentioned elsewhere Homestar Runner is still around and not doing badly. The Wiki, however, is severely starved for resources, it always takes a long long time to load for me.
I’m aware they’re still around. I appreciate that they only come out with something when they think it’s worth making (and have time to make it) rather than desperately trying to stay relevant. But the flash era enabled a kind of interactivity that I’m not sure is possible in these latter days of passive content consumption.
At the time, I thought this April fools’ video was their way of saying they wanted to wind things down. I also think Marzipan’s Answering Machine 17 was a brilliant way to celebrate the site, and I would have been happy if that was the last thing they ever made. (Also you know the OUYA screwed up if H*R is making fun of it).
But I do mourn the seemingly immanent loss of the wiki. I hope someone else can revive it. I think the TV Tropes article on H*R calls the wiki “disturbingly comprehensive”, and that’s an apt description. I used it to read the transcripts of new toons after watching them as there often visual gags I missed that the text would point out.
