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Malph (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#76: Jul 16th 2011 at 10:54:16 PM

[up] I used to use Gamewinners too. A friend showed me it years ago and I used it a lot. I don't know when I stopped using it.

edited 16th Jul '11 10:55:10 PM by Malph

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#77: Jul 16th 2011 at 11:11:39 PM

Detstar sounds familiar to me…

I remember also a site that sprung up around the time Kirby Right Back At Ya started airing stateside. It had info all about the anime, but it also went into some history on the games. I remember they mixed up the pictures for Kirby's Dreamland 2 and some Kirby golf game I forgot the name of.

edited 16th Jul '11 11:12:32 PM by 0dd1

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
KrisMahai Hm? Since: Jan, 2013
Hm?
#78: Jul 16th 2011 at 11:23:00 PM

Oh, Neopets.

edited 16th Jul '11 11:29:06 PM by KrisMahai

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Driscoll Are you frustrated? from Mit meinem Kaiser! Since: Nov, 2010
Cosman246 Another person from Cascadia Since: May, 2009
Another person
#80: Jul 17th 2011 at 9:51:16 PM

When I was younger (age 6), I frequented flash sites, Nick and Cartoon Network. I gave those up for Neopets, which in turn I gave up for a large amount of sites. Then it became Wikipedia, Nerd Paradise, the Jargon File (4.20—I don't trust ESR's latest version), the Metaverse, and T.V.Tropes among others.

If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#81: Jul 17th 2011 at 9:52:42 PM

Hmm. I wonder if...

Cool, it's still up.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#82: Jul 17th 2011 at 10:28:19 PM

I enjoyed visiting websites with craazy, So Bad, It's Good reviews like Encyclopedia Obscura (LONG dead) and Audio Atrocities (probably dead). It blew my mind to read about stuff like Monster Party and Sweet Home, once I got past the Accidental Nightmare Fuel. Goood times.

Also, Deviant Art was so fantastic when I first arrived, but... yawn.

Do not obey in advance.
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#83: Jul 18th 2011 at 12:22:01 AM

Similarly, Newgrounds was way past cool…back in 2002. '04 the latest, maybe. Also, websites with nothing but Mario flash movies that use the sprites from SMB All-Stars.

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#84: Jul 18th 2011 at 11:26:01 AM

Can't say I'm nostalgic for being twelve, but the first forum I posted on had Glenn Magus Harvey in it, coincidentally, so there's that.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
TheStupidExclamationMark Orbs from In ur cupboard Since: Dec, 2009
Orbs
#85: Jul 18th 2011 at 1:15:06 PM

So, anyone else remember Technosphere (a simulation where you could create creatures that would roam, mate, and die)?

"That said, as I've mentioned before, apart from the helmet, he's not exactly bad looking, if a bit...blood-drenched." - juancarlos
Ajbcool The Omnibot from Here, obviously. Since: Sep, 2009
The Omnibot
#86: Jul 18th 2011 at 1:32:04 PM

I remember Master Duelist.com, which was one of many YGO sites from back in the day. Became a staff member that hardly did anything, and one of my groups of online friends was formed from this site. Still haven't found out where the admins, or the site itself, had disappeared off too...

Digimon Digital Liveblog by Myself! Yay!
LordCrayak Since: Jun, 2009
#87: Jul 18th 2011 at 4:57:42 PM

Random (but mostly Mario-related) videogame sites like Yoshi's Stadium (dead), Nintendoland (alive under new management, last I heard), Mariomonsters (status unknown), Lemmy's Land (alive) and Donkey Kong Universe (sort of alive, I think). And a Spider-Man site called Samruby that I'm also unsure of.

And the obligatory tv channel sites like YTV and Fox Kids, which I had a recent nostalgic flashback to when I found an "Agumon Microphone" in a tourist trap general store; it appeared so old that the plastic case was turning yellowish-brown.

Found trsrockin a few years ago, and remembered it mostly because it was one of the few places you could read Nintendo Comics System without relying on potentially shady downloading or something. A shame Internet Archive appeared to only save the thumbnails, and not the actual images.

disturbly Since: Mar, 2010
#88: Jul 18th 2011 at 5:37:45 PM

My first exposure to the internet was when I was in Alpha class (that school's "gifted" program) in middle school. There was this one humor site everyone in the class would frequent. Can't remember the name, but it featured flash games (the first place I saw the game "Dueling Gentlemen"), flash videos, and webcomics.

I remember one of the webcomics; it showed a guy standing on a showroom floor with the top of his head cut off. The caption read, "Though his career was brief, lasting only a single hour, there never was, nor ever will be, a ceiling fan salesman as tall as Dan." Or something to that effect.

sigh. Wish I could find that site again.

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#89: Jul 18th 2011 at 8:16:45 PM

Muhahaha, it still lives! First site & first online game I ever joined. Really surprised to see it's still running, even if it's just a skeleton crew keeping it from fading away.

StephanReiken Since: May, 2010
#90: Jul 21st 2011 at 12:18:21 AM

Ah,MMBN: Maximum Operation on the good old invisionfree forums.

My first serious R Ping forum, its where the name I use as an alias comes from.

Those were some good times, but we could not get it right again in the 4 failed restarts that came after it. Yes, 4. We got better are roleplaying but worse at keeping it put together.

Me and Koal still toy around with the idea of trying to reboot it again.

edited 21st Jul '11 12:19:10 AM by StephanReiken

alphamone Since: Jan, 2001
#91: Jul 27th 2011 at 3:07:03 AM

I remember happypuppy.

Also a lot of small websites relating to random things.

Pikachu's pokemon center. (one of those websites that sucked with frames and would not change the url that your computer thought it was at, an would keep the side frame)

playsite, which had great online versions of boardgames before it turned into a gambling site.

emode, which had a lot of those "which character are you" style tests. Their "what star wars character is your cat" test told me that mine was jabba the hutt. It later turned into a dating site.

Jedi knight humor archive, had a lot of star wars (and jedi knight) related humor. Unfortunately stopped updating before the game was even released, early enough that people still thought it was the final boss that used two lightsabers.

Planet namek. Had some great "so bad its good" dbz fanfics, including "vegetto goes shopping" a fanfic with vegeta and yamcha on the jerry springer show, and one called "just like in my dreams" which involved frieza and a ballet performance (and yes, the mental images it provided were as disturbing as they sound).

I also remember a pokemon website that had mini synopsys of pokemon episodes yet to air (from the second half of the indigo league stuff), and even the first pokemon movie. As I had been told to not trust everything I read on the net, I scoffed at that at being "totaly fake", I mean "mewtwo strikes back". >.> <.<

Pojo has also been a good website over the years. I still remember the realmedia clips from DBZ episodes that I downloaded, and for some clips, could site where they started and finished.

abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#92: Jul 27th 2011 at 3:17:32 PM

I remember when I used Altavista dial-up, and making that my regular homepage. Back then I didn't know much about the web, and neither did the Internet itself.

Its free, 40-hour per month Internet is long forgotten.

Now using Trivialis handle.
Completion oldtimeytropey from Space Since: Apr, 2012
oldtimeytropey
#93: Jul 27th 2011 at 5:58:01 PM

Hyrule.com.ar

I was there when it had an ezBoard. I also went to Ganon's Tower.

edited 27th Jul '11 6:00:32 PM by Completion

risingdreams Insert witty title here from Peixeiroland Since: Feb, 2011
Insert witty title here
#94: Jul 28th 2011 at 5:30:49 PM

I used to be a regular at a Card Captor Sakura chat The ID in a Power Trio.

I actually miss them. I mean, I still talk to them, but we're not a trio anymore and I'm not close to one of them as much as I used to be. And The Ego and The Superego swapped places.

edited 28th Jul '11 5:33:25 PM by risingdreams

DesmondO O: from York Ontario Since: Jul, 2011
O:
#95: Jul 28th 2011 at 5:48:45 PM

robotduck.com

Some of the greatest flash games around were on that site but its been kaput for almost 7 years now, if not more.

cgsilverscreen2020 Whaddya say? from a house Since: Jun, 2010
Whaddya say?
#96: May 19th 2012 at 4:14:51 PM

I used to be OBSESSED with Lemmy's Land around 2006-2007. I mostly did Caption Contests there and loved looking at Dark Koopa's interviews. Just gave the site a recent visit and it still looks pretty good! Anyone remember the Banjo-Kazooie online guides with the REALLY detailed maps? Can't remember what site that was from...

I mean, Venusaur!
SantosLHalper Since: Aug, 2009
ThatOneGuyNamedX Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#98: May 19th 2012 at 4:49:35 PM

Screw Attack was pretty much my Internet home for quite some time. I wrote, made videos and all from there. Most of my twitter friends are from there, too.

That community kind of died... Though, the new edition seems to have everyone rushing back.

Perhaps Newgrounds was my first real experiences with user made content and communities. Though, I never got too involved, I remember that place, back in the day. Fucking awesome, man...

Other than lurking wikipedia for a couple years, reading random stuff, there was this Latin American page that had a bunch of flash games and movies stolen from other places on the internet called Minijuegos.com, it was good, I guess. Still runs, used it a lot in my early interneteering.

eternalNoob Ded from yer mum Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Ded
#99: May 19th 2012 at 6:17:27 PM

Well, Newgrounds. I played a lot of the very good games, and i was amazed. Then i saw that there was much more shit, but that didn't matter, cause there were a lot of good games too. Who else remembers the puzzle game based around killing yourself? Me? Orwit...

Dragonfable was also one of my first communities. It had such a nice fanbase, and the humor definitely made up for the grind.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.
majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#100: May 19th 2012 at 6:52:03 PM

Oh fuck, all the flash game sites. Bonus, Newgrounds, Addicting Games, miniclip. I also remember nintendoland.com the way it used to be, with a bunch of old Nintendo info, and a Zelda fansite attached called the Grand Adventures...


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