TV.com is relatively new, all things considered. As I said in my OP, it's what caused the death of TV Tome.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.From way back in the day (Elementary through middle school), there were the CN and Nickelodeon websites, various Zelda fansites whose names I don't even remember anymore, nintendoland.com, Game FA Qs, and starmen.net. My first forums were the Ubisoft and FF.net forums.
edited 19th May '12 11:35:14 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.@0dd1
TV.com is the continuation of TV Tome.
Those days with originally coded forums, and many subsections. Reminds me of here.
Now using Trivialis handle.Back when I first started using the internet I used to love playing flashgames on Z Thing. My favorites were Office Quarterback where you're in an office throwing a football at people and the game where you shoot the Back Street Boys with a paintball gun.
"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. PattonYou know how Newgrounds recently had an upgrade? Well, I used to go on it before the upgrade that was recently upgraded. Confused yet?
I remember the BBS as a much harsher place. The last time I visited (which was fairly recently), it was filled with 20 kinds of pussy from wall to wall.
I used to have a thread which got frozen (because I bumped it xD) which was about killing the above person hypothetically. It was frozen at 13 pages. I remember it being "V2", because the first one was frozen after 3 posts because someone thought I was anti-Tom Fulp.
TRsrockin was another childhood favorite. When I heard about the closure, my stomach dropped about 2 inches.
Then there was Pointystick.com, named so because it was "funner than being poked in the eye with a pointy stick". it had flash games (some of which I have never again found), funny pictures (again, some of which I have never seen again) and a jokes page. It had some real problems in it's last moments, because the owner didn't pay the bandwidth bill and wasn't aware the site was down. By the time he realized, basically everything was irretrievable.
I also frequented a site known as "BONUS" in my primary school years, which is where I played such classics as The Flowered Nose and Radical Aces.
This thread makes me feel old. There were no websites at the time of my first Internet experience. Forums, yes, in the form of text BB Ses and the like.
A brighter future for a darker age.The AOL Teen message boards, the sort that had Usenet-style posting instead of a forum-like layout.
Mind you, this was before the merger, and before places like Newgrounds existed.
edited 23rd May '12 8:05:15 AM by DrunkGirlfriend
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian@112: Ah, the N Sider Forums. I remember spending a lot of time reading the various fanfics posted there.
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You just reminded me of when my sister and I first discovered chartrooms, back when we were using CompuServe. One memorable guy kept saying "who?" for some reason. Eventually, we asked him, "Are you an owl?" We were so clever.
IT'S NOT THE SAAAAME *temper tantrum*
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Hey, I was actually there when TV Tome transitioned to the new site. They supported it.
Now using Trivialis handle.I was there too, but I didn't get transferred over. I had to make a whole new account.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I think as a very young kid, I spent alot of time on PBS' website and playing the games there, with my brother and I fighting for the time to play. For a long while, we used the internet for games and my brother still occasionally goes to Newgrounds. Me, I signed up for Millsberry, a virtual website adverstised by the cereal boxes. I got onto a forum attatched to it. From then, I've been a forum hopper but my home seems to be here.
The chatroom I think I have the most fond memories attached to was an official one on the old They Might Be Giants site, which wasn't really my first internet experience, but I started going there around 1999 or so, and thus I think of it as being the tail end of my early internetting. I'm still in contact with a few of those people, but I miss the silliness we could get up to together.
I think my first chatroom experience was this set of music chatrooms divided by genre, but I now have no idea what the site actually was called. I mainly remember that I was going by "Death Rock Boy" *, until my parents saw me chatting on the family computer and objected to my screenname choice- I remember alternatives I came up with being Sonic Dissonance (kind of redundant, yes?) and Sonic Life, both because of Sonic Youth, not the hedgehog. I think these were the same chat rooms where I became a member of an "internet gang" called Cult Of Dead Cows - all this meant was that my screenname was listed on a site somewhere and I could put "CDC" at the end of my screenname *.
Around the same time I also remember this weird thing where my sister and I frequently attempted to troll a Hanson fan chatroom under the same account, then eventually revealed ourselves to be two separate people and ended up just becoming a regular part of the community, despite having absolutely no interest in Hanson themselves.
I totally had a geocities site - it was pretty much entirely just a long list of in-jokes.
edited 23rd May '12 12:50:04 PM by MikeK
I got my start on the Nick message boards. I must've posted three or four stories there, and it was my introduction to the concept of shipping. I left after realizing how squeaky-clean the mods kept it, however. No fun.
The first forum I was really active in was a Commander Keen forum on the now-defunct Inside the Web, run by the Cerebral Cortex 314 peeps in the mid-late nineties before it was even called Cerebral Cortex 314. I lost touch with the community in the early 2000s and never really got back into it (though I still play Keen all the time).
Though if we're talking first internet experience, I remember playing games like MadMaze on Prodigy way back around 92/93. Holy crap I feel like an old man now.
Somehow you know that the time is right.Wikipedia; which led me here, which led me to fan fiction.net, which led me to dA. I kinda miss TOW sometimes.
RISE

I remember when you could Google sites for Flash games (or anything related to cartoons with female leads) and half the links wouldn't be for virus-laden sites with Flash dress-up games.
Also, anyone else remember when you could Google a song and torrent/illegal downloading sites would not take up the majority of the links? Because I no longer can
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