I swear I remember some precursor to YouTube somewhere
Dailymotion ?
Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.
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.
StumbleUpon
Digg.
I wouldn’t be on Lemmy today if it weren’t for Digg committing suicide, forcing everyone to switch to reddit. And then reddit went full retard with the 3rd party app thing, so here I am.
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.
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
My state passed ID verification for adult websites, does that count?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninja
They were super early YouTube.
Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.
There WERE super early YouTube. Meaning they were first to be uploading on that platform. Not saying they haven’t been producing content.
Wow! I can’t believe I forgot this!! Core memories unlocking…
I learned about net neutrality through him
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!
So hard to keep a ratio, too
lol yeah, not the best tracker to learn on but eventually found some workarounds
I think simplest was finding heavy scene packs to import/reverify from easy generals. Less competition due to disk space requirement and better at saturating shared box ratecaps which let occasional crumbs to fall through. Worked on hdbits too IIRC.
Yahoo Games
Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God’s sake !
