Old internet sites you remember

What are some sites you used to go to a lot, but don't now, either because you got bored with them or they aren't there anymore?

Mine:

BeSeen.com--the HTML chatrooms. They were the first ones I ever found, and I was a "regular" at Joe's All Night Diner for a long time. That's actually where I first met ThinkBlue1966. :)

GoPlay.com--it had a free webpage creator, and just about everyone I knew had a GoPlay webpage. That was where my very first webpage was.

Angelfire.com--another place where lots of us had free webpages and sites. I think it might still be there, but I don't even remember my login info.

LiveJournal.com--I used this for years, but I've all but abandoned it recently.

Maybe it doesn't really qualify as old, but it's been dark for many years. I loved that site, visited it often.

of the whores, and many of the posts were priceless. Rants on that site pulled no punches. A true loss when it went dark.

I used to visit it all the time. It might have been right around the time I stumbled on it that I found my way here, in fact.

I loved that site. My favorite misheard transcription of all time.

planetout.com

That's where I met Mrs. V. :loveya:

We both used to frequent CNN message boards, which don't exist as such anymore. There we met a gay retired former Southern Baptist pastor in Kingston (?), NY.

A recent # 1 bookmark that I don't use anymore is sparkpeople.com, a diet & exercise recording and encouragement site. It is a fantastic tool and I have returned to it several times in the last couple of months, but I only stay a day or two.

It seems to have carved out a niche market among sci-fi and fantasy Fangirl types. Lots of Harry Potter, Lost, BSG, etc over there.

multiple postings per day to updating maybe once a week.

Facebook stole my soul, i'm afraid. *L*

with an old-school gigantic blog back in the day (one huge page that went on forever, in plain text)...he would intersperse the greatest links o' the day with diatribes about his kidnapped daughter. I've been trying like the dickens to remember what it was called.

Anyone else remember?

Can't remember his name, but it was one HUGE page, with everything just thrown in there with all kinds of links. Damn, now I'm going to drive myself crazy trying to remember his name/website address. :crazy:

I think the kidnapped daughter story was also related to some church/cult setting. He named names, IIRC.

Sparked a love of design that has stuck with me. Then I moved on to Tripod, and a few other hosts. Now I have free server space on my friend's web server. On that note, I oughta redesign/finish my website.

I used to use LiveJournal a few years back but abandoned it for a more localized site to share journals with friends.

:rofl:

It had the first message board I ever frequented - my friend who lived just up the road and I would log on and chat with each other rather than use the phone because it was so novel to be able to chat on the Internet.

What a pair of dorks! :P

Its dead now but it was a site someone put up when Metallica was whining about their monez and mp3's.

but Metallica still sucks.

I used to be a big fan, but they ceased operations a few years back.

Actually, the site is still there, featuring archives of old articles, etc. Well worth browsing.

http://www.suck.com/

That was the first site I ever posted messages on. Talk about flame wars...

It was a handy way of figuring out which companies deserve my money.

which answered questions from the public, each in their own style. Sometimes the personalities would get into arguments. I learned of it several years ago from a thread like this! And cannot remember its name. The "main" personalities were supercomputers (and each personality had an appropriate avatar).

They used to have some extremely funny stuff - most of it in terrible taste. I miss it.

I was surprised when I learned that Hecklers Online was based right here in beautiful downtown Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

I even got myself into one of their top ten lists once.

They went off the net soon after the Iraqi war started.

Just checked - they are still running and seem to have new stuff.

www.pigwar.com - A website about the Pig War between the US and the British in the Pacific Northwest.

http://www.preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com - Started life as a fictional website in a fairly obscure Gene Wolfe/Neil Gaiman collaboration, became a real website that caught the mood of the original work pretty well. Still around, but hasn't been updated for a long time.

Once the show ended, obviously, I didn't have much need to go there. But when it was on, man!

I remember it well.

How could I have forgotten!

and made more so by JMS' participation on usenet. It was very entertaining to get a peak behind the scenes.

You are now required to return you Babylon 5 geek identification.

but you'll have to pry my Londo figurine from my cold dead hands!

http://flickr.com/photos/jasontd/1376451741/sizes/m/

From the early days of the net. I don't know if its still around but its fairly obsolete now. At least for my needs. I don't know if others have found modern uses for it.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9179/walter.htm

It is archived there, but no longer being updated last I checked.

Also, I enjoyed the Sandbox on CNN's financial page. They had games and I won lots of stuff like fishing hats, -tshirts, golf tees, keychains, you name it, then they stopped it. I was good at that game back then.

The Blondie Archive
http://www.blondie.ausbone.net/

It's gone now too. :cry: It had zillions of Deborah Harry pictures. I spent hours and hours there.

My old web site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kasey.carolina.net

VRML
Cosmos and SGI were great great sites. I must have spent literally hundreds of hours building my apartment for Cybertown. That was a great site as well. And who could forget Floops. RIP Floops. We still miss you.

Dammit! Bring back VRML RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

I enjoyed it so much. I built a kickass bedroom with Blondie posters on the wall and Elvira posters. It had a kickass library and all sorts of goodies. And that was only on the trial version of Internet Space Builder

I just found it. I am going to download an XP version if I can and play until my heart is content.
http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/isb/


http://www.nurple.com
Nurple was still there last time I checked though. :D

it was only after it died that I realized what a bunch of abusive, elitist gits the moderators were. Really makes me regret how much time I wasted there back in the day.

When that group committed suicide in California after warning what was about to happen on a bizarre website, that was one of the first times the that mass American media audience tuned into the web. Someone has kept the site going, I suppose for historical interest:

http://www.heavensgate.com/

I was using newsgroups for several years before the web took off. The first web site I heard of was mentioned on a news show, that said there was a new way to communicate over the internet, called the world wide web, that allowed for pictures to be transmitted; that site was called "Tom's Toilet" and it was just a picture of some guy's toilet (not pornographic or anything -- just a toilet).

I remember using geocities a lot, even for a course I was teaching at the time. That's when geocities was divided into "neighborhoods." I think the academic neighborhood was called "Athens."

Freaking w**dch*cks.

Hey, don't the freeps "ZOT" or somesuch?

I worked for a moronic company at the time, so my coworkers and I made regular visits to FC to see if there were any tidbits about our corporate overlords and the future of the corporation. (Quite often, there were!)

Also Delphi Forums. The ladies on the thyroid boards literally saved my life with their knowledge and support. Once I got treatment, I was honored to do the same for newcomers.

That's where I cut my teeth debating rabid right wingers like Uncle Meat (aka Veritas). I miss seeing posts by Chef ("bring a baggie fo' yo' teef"), Cheopys, the Egyptian Magician, Kiwi Girl, and Pud.

It closed before the 2004 primaries, I think. Smart, funny, well-informed chatters.

From there I moved to chatforamerica (the old Dean site) which is, of course, now defunct.

Is Delphi still around? I used to go to one of the chatrooms there, a long time ago.

It's still there and it's still pretty good but after I got busy it was the one liberal page too many that I never seemed to get to.

Where you started a country and then had to make decisions every day. I always forgot about my countries and then they disappeared.

I'd forgotten all about that.

I've met lots of cool people thru LiveJournal.

They were far more active than the current ones. I remember going into the NBA Chats back in 1998 all the time.

I was never much of a chatter, preferring message boards. I remember a Sports Night fan group in particular.

:P

I also remember setting up a group for Utah teens to get together and hookup.

Wow, how stupid was I? Of course, I was like 16 and horny, so I didn't really think of the problems it would create. Regardless, Yahoo didn't seem to care and the group stayed open well after I graduated HS.

God how sad is that? I met one girl off that site and when we met, sorriest lay of my life.

www.hampsterdance.com



'nuff said.

and I miss it

The first political website I spent a good deal of time at. It was a pretty informative place for me, too, as I was fifteen years old at the time that I found it, and starting to become very interested in politics. I was bummed when it went under. I found DU a couple of years later...

And all of the various Web sites linked through there. My first non-work e-mail address was a Chickmail account.

Also, the boards at Hissyfit and HipMama, which led me to DU.

I'm going to say USENET. I used to read it all the time before the web.

I use it for other things. :P

But web-based message boards are more immediate than nntp.

WARNING: It used to be kooky funny. It's gotten racist, hate-filled, less funny.

I can't believe this is still up! It's even more insane than I remember! :wow:

The virtual birding game for southern California. Almost as big a time suck as real chasing. :P

When I was pregnant with my now 10 year old, I met tons of people online in a May Moms '98 group (we even had a few meet ups). The site eventually ended and we had our own private board for several years after that. I didn't have much in common with most of them and eventually just gave up. For all I know, the board's still active.

It was a great place to be during the dotcom meltdown. Eventually it got predictable, and dominated by crappy porn ads, and then just eventually went away. Too bad, because the discussions were somewhat informative, but funny as hell.

going there and reading the rants of people who like me just *loved* their job.

I ranted once about the cheap Christmas gift an employer gave us....

one of the first groups I sought out
when I plugged in.

I loved it.

Don't go there so much since I figured
out that I am NOT in the minority I
THOUGHT I was.

Poll after poll on DU shows non-believers
to outnumber belivers by a large number.

Speaking out IRL has led me to discover,
if not a silent majority, at least a larger
minority than I ever realized existed.

I didn't always agree with her, but damn, the girl had a voice....

actually, I don't miss that at all.

A webisodic that ran out of ideas and money.