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IamQ

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Do you have that website you once used to no end, but suddenly stopped? Maybe it stopped updating, maybe you found a better website, or maybe you just lost intrest in it. We all have those websites from olden days when pre-video commercials didn't exist and anti-internet bills weren't lurking around the corners.

For me, that website is http://thottbot.com/. It was an old world of warcraft website. You could describe it as a less sophisticated version of Wowhead. My story of how I came to use it, goes back to 2006 in Vanilla when my druid had just entered the Western Plaguelands for the first time. I went by the road and turned right when I found a house. Inside that house was a little girl with a quest. It instructed me to find three peices of her doll. I searched and searched, but could only find two of them. Then, as if sent from above, came a Dwarf priest named kikekke (You don't forget a name like that). He told me if I wanted to find what I was looking for, that I should search for it on a website he knew of. Thottbot was it's name, and it changed my (characters) life from that moment on. Then I got older and started learning better english, so I could actually read the quest descriptions instead of looking it up every time.
 

GothmogII

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http://www.homestarrunner.com/main4.html

Homestar, Strongbad and the rest of Free Country USA never got a proper send off. They've been standing in the snow in off season costumes for a year or so now with no updates, even just to say the site is on hiatus.

Still, I like visiting it on occasion for the pure nostalgia.
 

Esotera

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Sort of here...the content in the forums has been slowing here ever since Extra Credits left.

bash.org is my other answer, I think it still gets updated but I'll probably only visit every other month, and I won't stay for long.
 

Ghaleon640

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Foxkids.com I LOOOOOOOOOOOVED that site. As a kid, it had all the best games. And then they replaced it with fox box which had... no games. there was like, a kirby jigsaw and nothing else. I was so disappointed, but certain that one day they would realize their grievous error and put things back the way they were.

.... I was so innocent then. Anyone have any idea if any of those old games got saved? Their probably crappy now that I've gotten older and they've aged and whatnot, but for the nostalgia factor I thought I'd ask.
 

DugMachine

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I went to Myspace the other day to see my lame emoish profile I had during highs school and to see everyones old pictures of when we were kids. Except they changed it to have this more Facebookish type look to it now so while the pictures are still there, I can no longer scroll for hours on my profile with all the emo/goth pictures and gifs I had saved.

I like to see the differences between then and now :)
 

DudeistBelieve

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this begs the question... what is the oldest website on the net that hasn't been updated for sometime?

I'd love to see some of the websites from the mid-90s... remember how they all looked like shit?
 

Tazzy da Devil

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Neopets. I still go there occasionally, but I used to be obsessed with that website. My brother seriously had a seizure in the same room as me and I didn't notice because I was on Neopets.
 

j0frenzy

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SaneAmongInsane said:
this begs the question... what is the oldest website on the net that hasn't been updated for sometime?

I'd love to see some of the websites from the mid-90s... remember how they all looked like shit?
I believe this might give you the nostalgic flashback you are looking for.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
 

Killspre

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Probably for me would be between runescape.com and stickdeath.com. I stopped going to these sites a long time ago but sometimes I feel nostalgic and revisit them.
 

SaikyoKid

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I remember I used to go to Legendary Frog all the time back when the internet was newish and YouTube wasn't the massive force it is now. That and newgrounds kept me fairly entertained whenever I'd wander the webs once in a while.
 

verdant monkai

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serebii.net Loved it whenever I needed pokemon info I just looked on serebii.net
http://serebii.net/index2.shtml
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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http://web.archive.org/web/20030306183037/http://members.madasafish.com/~KEFKA/

The original site is long since gone, but once upon a time, this was my favorite site on the internet. The Cult of Kefka was a Rom site as only early 2000's rom sites were; mostly focused on the reviews and random musings of the author, not on the roms themselves -- and the roms it did carry were all on systems that, at the time, were out of print. You can even see on the page I linked, the last archived version the Wayback machine has, the author explained that he wouldn't be uploading any GBA roms because it was a current system. And this may be the only site in the history of the internet to use background midi files in a way that improved the experience; I don't think it gets more calming than browsing roms and reviews on a nicely designed (by early 2000's standards) website to the tune of Aeis' theme. It introduced me to a lot of new games in middle school, but one day it was just gone; judging by the last blog update, it was probably due to the bandwidth costs getting out of hand. The roms are long gone, but the archive I linked to lets you read the reviews in full, which are really the part of the site; the review archive has some of the best reviews of those old games on the internet.

Note to mods: though this was once a rom site, it was abandonware roms even at the time, and the archive link I provided has no roms. What's more, the site itself no longer exists, so all I really linked to here is a review site.

Note to other users: the site seems to be broken in Chrome, but works just fine in Firefox. Make sure you have Quicktime and Flash installed to get the full experience.
 

edudewired

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Gamesofgondor.com I used to play on Games of Gondor all the time. Then one sad day I was redirected to Armor Games.
 

GamerAddict7796

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Probably NeoSeeker.

I was even a part of the Morrowind 'group' and it's the site I got the name 'GamerAddict7796'

But alas, I found the Escapist. Thank you Yahtzee!
 

Raven's Nest

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Newgrounds when I was a wee boy was always good for some inflate-a-pokemon fun or to kill some celebs...

Ahh, back in the day..
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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j0frenzy said:
SaneAmongInsane said:
this begs the question... what is the oldest website on the net that hasn't been updated for sometime?

I'd love to see some of the websites from the mid-90s... remember how they all looked like shit?
I believe this might give you the nostalgic flashback you are looking for.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
I came across that site ages ago, either browsing wikipedia or doing a really deep search on Google for cool stuff on lower ranked sites. Anyway, that's actually one of the cooler remnants of web 1.0. It reminds me of just how much stuff died with geocities; I know there's an archive torrent floating around, but it's not the same; there was so much good information buried under the crap that it was a real disservice to history for Yahoo to get rid of it.


Bit of a change in subject, but here's an example of what web 1.0 looked like when the designer wasn't going for flashy; it puts into perspective some of the complaints you'll find in old usenet posts about websites that focused so much on flash intros and the like that the text -- which at the time was regarded as the main attraction -- was harder to find.
 

exobook

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Probadly the old lego site. The first website that really got me into the internet. God, I'd loved the bionicle site along with MNOG, spent hours trying to beat it. Pity its all gone now, and the only way I can play those games is with fan copies.
 

TallestGargoyle

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A whole bunch

www.bonusstages.com - Bonus Stage, a webseries about some guys.

www.xeogaming.org - A small webforum about games and such, pretty fun.

Acmlm's Board - Can't remember the website for this one, but it was the website that taught me about Super Mario World hacks.