Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.
Sure you could go there still now. But it’s an empty husk of what it was before. Flash died without any viable replacement for all the old flash games that relied on it.
They enshitified a ton too.
I swear I remember some precursor to YouTube somewhere
Dailymotion ?
I remember there being an app called RealPlayer that my brothers had installed on our family computer back in late 1990 or 2000. There, you select a 320pi that was streamed to you via the internet. Could that be what you’re thinking of?
edit: I did some searching and this very useful Timeline of online video, which might be helpful in your search.
No, I’m not that old. YouTube existed when I was growing up but it wasn’t really huge until a bit later. Thanks for the video tho, I’ll check it.
My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
www.ebaumsworld.com its still around but its not the same.
Also www.thingsididlastnight.com - it just said YOUR MOM in huge letters. Thats it. No ads, no images, nothing. Just YOUR MOM
Also www.mostannoyingwebpage.com (I think). Just an endless stream of popup messages with no way out
XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just… Gone
Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
Anyone remember Happy Puppy?
There used to be rotten.com, which posted extremely disturbing pictures and I don’t miss that part of it. But I do miss the Rotten Library, which used to be a bastion of suppressed literature.
My old stomping grounds, the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch.
I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!
I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
They were trying to tell you to touch grass
yeah haha that was a bit annoying!
(Link works like stumbleupon basically)
ooh, neat! ty!
Reddit. Unfortunately it’s defunct beyond repair now, but back in the day it was a nice place to discuss all sorts of topics with knowledgeable and like-minded folk.
The Zionists and American fascists seem to be taking it over too.
r/politics was mass censoring any coverage of the Jimmy Kimmel debacle recently.
It was defunct long before that.
Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
https://homestarrunner.com/I wanted to say this too, but yeah they are still here. And their latest cartoon is relevant too.
Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
ZOMBO COM!
I make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
I hear anything is possible at that website! Anything at all! The infinite is possible! The unattainable is unknown!
Zombocom was and still is the only website in the world.
It’s not defunct tho… Newgrounds is still around.
Actually, none of my favorite websites are defunct. Something Awful, LiveJournal, and Penny-Arcade are also still going.
Long live the old internet.
YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it’s effectively dead.
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Forgot about that one
