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Old, nostalgic websites you remember frequenting 10 - 25 years ago?
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-Newgrounds
-Ebaum's World
-SmileySmile.net (The Beach Boys forum)
-AllThingsWeezer
-TheStrokesNews
-Every Woody Allen Movie (Not to bring Woody Allen up, but this blog was incredible as I was getting into his movies in college. The blog writer wrote a huge, detailed piece about every single Woody Allen movie. Unfortunately the writer passed away and the blog is no longer up.)
-Ebaum's World
-SmileySmile.net (The Beach Boys forum)
-AllThingsWeezer
-TheStrokesNews
-Every Woody Allen Movie (Not to bring Woody Allen up, but this blog was incredible as I was getting into his movies in college. The blog writer wrote a huge, detailed piece about every single Woody Allen movie. Unfortunately the writer passed away and the blog is no longer up.)
10 years ago is not old or nostalgic lol, but that recent, I would say NeoGAF, of course. Just like ResetERA is now, it was the only website I visited on the regular.
20 years ago: BlastCity.net (I believe we still have some blasters on here from back in the day), Gaming-Age.com, ShinForce.com, PSX2Central.net
25 years ago? 95 was wild west days! I used to search on Hotbot, Webcrawler, and Altavista back then. Zophar's Domain back in about 97 back when Genecyst, Nesticle, and ZSNES were still the best emus out there. Damn, those were indeed the good old days.
20 years ago: BlastCity.net (I believe we still have some blasters on here from back in the day), Gaming-Age.com, ShinForce.com, PSX2Central.net
25 years ago? 95 was wild west days! I used to search on Hotbot, Webcrawler, and Altavista back then. Zophar's Domain back in about 97 back when Genecyst, Nesticle, and ZSNES were still the best emus out there. Damn, those were indeed the good old days.
Gaming Intelligence Agency
So sad when it dissolved. Filled with smart people writing smart things. Glad some of them are still in the game.
So sad when it dissolved. Filled with smart people writing smart things. Glad some of them are still in the game.
Ebaumsworld
Break.com
Holy Lemon
Mini-Clip
Addicting Games
Hamster Dance song
Gameinformer before their redesign
Newgrounds
Albino black sheep
Youtube when it was about posting random videos and not trying to make money
IGN
Gametrailers
G4TechTV
Neogaf
And other ones I'm sure people will remind me exist that I happened to forget.
Break.com
Holy Lemon
Mini-Clip
Addicting Games
Hamster Dance song
Gameinformer before their redesign
Newgrounds
Albino black sheep
Youtube when it was about posting random videos and not trying to make money
IGN
Gametrailers
G4TechTV
Neogaf
And other ones I'm sure people will remind me exist that I happened to forget.
Its still around but Newgrounds circa 2005 and Midna Fan Forum. Im sure there's others I can't recall atm.
HabboHotel swapping furni like a boss.
Coke Music which was similar to Habbo Hotel, I ended up winning a years supply of Coke through that.
OG RuneScape
Gamingring
Ign Smackdown boards
Newgrounds
Ebaumsworld
Coke Music which was similar to Habbo Hotel, I ended up winning a years supply of Coke through that.
OG RuneScape
Gamingring
Ign Smackdown boards
Newgrounds
Ebaumsworld
Chatphiles
It was actually an X-Files fan chat that is so old it was more like a forum.
Also. Cool chat.
Yes I'm very old.
It was actually an X-Files fan chat that is so old it was more like a forum.
Also. Cool chat.
Yes I'm very old.
Serebii.net Forums.
I don't think it's as active as it was before, and I remember it being reaaaaally slow that it was easy to make double/triple posts.
I don't think it's as active as it was before, and I remember it being reaaaaally slow that it was easy to make double/triple posts.
I got a weird one for y'all. This AOL Members fan page that was running GameCube news. I remember it being like being one of my primary resources in 2001 for some reason, lol
Nintendo GAMECUBE - News Page
Welcome to the Nintendo GAMECUBE news page. When news breaks you will see it here! The future is almost here...
web.archive.org
Computerandvideogames.com
Maybe it was called something else before that. Wonder if it's archived somewhere?
Maybe it was called something else before that. Wonder if it's archived somewhere?
As an oldschool CS player: Gotfrag. It makes me really sad that it's gone. There's a legacy of news reports, demos and scoreboards from my playing days that is just permanently gone now.
Shining Force Central was probably the first online forum I frequented, it didn't prepare me for the rest of the internet because everybody there was really nice. It's still going, just very quiet.
It was actually at a time when the Shining Force 3 trilogy were the most recent Shining games, not even the GBA remake had been released.
It was actually at a time when the Shining Force 3 trilogy were the most recent Shining games, not even the GBA remake had been released.
No idea what the URL was, but it was a website that had flash versions of a bunch of boardgames, like Sorry and Monopoly. I even joined a geocities site that ran ranked Monopoly tournaments, with stupid rules like not being able to buy any properties till you went around the board at least once, and when someone bought a property, they had the rites to all other properties that shared a color. For some reason I think it was games.com, but I'm not sure.
That, battleon.com, Gaia Online, and Zoids roll playing pages pretty much made up my entire internet experience as a child.
That, battleon.com, Gaia Online, and Zoids roll playing pages pretty much made up my entire internet experience as a child.
Around 2000, I moved and wanted to make friends quickly. I used the old IGN boards to talk about games and bluelight.nu to do meetups for partying. IGN switched things up and I bounced, but I made a ton of friends on bluelight and went to house parties and massives often. It was maybe my funnest time socially not involving my core friends back home.
A hyper-obscure Lego fan site from the late 90s when I was around 9. I'm pretty sure my mom found it for me and I would read over the creation descriptions over and over since I thought it was so cool people made up their own Lego stories.
I always remembered the word adequate was involved in getting to it, and found it again a few years ago:
Pretty crazy time capsule from my youth, it was like seeing something from a dream when I found it as an adult.
I always remembered the word adequate was involved in getting to it, and found it again a few years ago:
Pretty crazy time capsule from my youth, it was like seeing something from a dream when I found it as an adult.
The Sonic Foundation, which I visited from 1999 to some point in the mid 2000s where after a server transfer most everyone stopped posting. It was still around in the early 2010s, but I only came in every few months or so. Then the site went down fully.
I was only 9 when I joined, but of course I pretended to be 13 to register. Besides Sonic discussion, I took part in the RPs and group fanfics a lot; more so later, unfortunately when the site was close to death. I regret not saving any of those.
I was only 9 when I joined, but of course I pretended to be 13 to register. Besides Sonic discussion, I took part in the RPs and group fanfics a lot; more so later, unfortunately when the site was close to death. I regret not saving any of those.
http://www.oldversion.com/
It offers free software downloads for old versions of programs and drivers. Saved my ass multiple times over for over a decade. It's very handy :).
It offers free software downloads for old versions of programs and drivers. Saved my ass multiple times over for over a decade. It's very handy :).
OMG thanks that was a blast from the past remeber that site would show wav sound clips of the sonic cartoons like sonic under ground and Satam? i remeber going on that site from 1999 to like 2002
I'll try to think of more, but these are the first ones that come to mind:
IGN (specifically the Casamassina/Bozon era)
Gametrailers
CheatPlanet
ZeldaUniverse
Newgrounds
Machinima
IGN (specifically the Casamassina/Bozon era)
Gametrailers
CheatPlanet
ZeldaUniverse
Newgrounds
Machinima
Lots of nostalgia coming up for me in this thread.
IGN64 and later regular IGN and the boards, around GameCube release or so.. I *think*.
Nintendojo
Nintendorks
other Nintendo fan sites I'm assuredly forgetting from those days
GameSpot
Gaming Age (and then obviously GAF and NeoGAF)
The Magic Box
Box Office Mojo
Computer and Video Games (CVG, right?)
Daily Radar
1UP
Used to play the hell out of a Star Wars MUD called KoBrA. My original MMORPG
CheatCC and GameFAQs for cheats/guides
YTMND
Lots of various Angelfire and Geocities fan sites that I'm struggling to remember the name of (Animorphs, Star Wars, Nintendo, etc)
IGN64 and later regular IGN and the boards, around GameCube release or so.. I *think*.
Nintendojo
Nintendorks
other Nintendo fan sites I'm assuredly forgetting from those days
GameSpot
Gaming Age (and then obviously GAF and NeoGAF)
The Magic Box
Box Office Mojo
Computer and Video Games (CVG, right?)
Daily Radar
1UP
Used to play the hell out of a Star Wars MUD called KoBrA. My original MMORPG
CheatCC and GameFAQs for cheats/guides
YTMND
Lots of various Angelfire and Geocities fan sites that I'm struggling to remember the name of (Animorphs, Star Wars, Nintendo, etc)
