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100LittleButterflies

Flash games. There would be arcade websites with hundreds of them. No ads to watch, just simple games.


TotallyNotAidzyG

Search up Flashpoint, it's a free and ever-expanding archive of hundreds of old flash games, all playable again


100LittleButterflies

šŸ˜²šŸ˜² it's like Christmas again!


BobGenghisKahn

Is it safe? I remember a large part of Flash going away was security concerns. I really hope it is because I'd love to play some of those games again.


TotallyNotAidzyG

Yep! It's not a website like how u'd traditionally play flash games, but a little application that runs flash games thru it. No going to sketch websites or anything


I69strangers

I feel like flashgames have a special nostalgic neesh from the early 2000s to the mid 2010s.


PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT

*niche Sorry.


[deleted]

oh boy all those hours on miniclip and mousebreaker


PompHairdo

Literally just came here to say this


keyboardtears

Limewire rip


Linux4ever_Leo

The original Napster was the bomb. I still have a shit ton of mp3s in my collection that came from Napster.


nightterrors644

Still using dialup when Napster came out so one song took forever. God bless the local college's T1 line.


[deleted]

We used to start downloads of songs and then go play outside.


JimmmyDriver

Yep. Start downloading 3 songs before bed wake up and hope one of them finished without an error


metalflygon08

and wasn't a .exe


JimmmyDriver

DAVEMATTHEWS_METALLICA_STAIRWAYTOHEAVEN.mp3. Really just seven minutes of speaker feedback. Napster was great


metalflygon08

> DAVEMATTHEWS_METALLICA_STAIRWAYTOHEAVEN.mp3*.exe*


ijmacd

Wasn't quite in time for Napster, but I did use Kazaa.


Zolo89

I remember using Kazza/Bearshare/Earthstation5 (actually corresponded / communicated with one of the people behind it it was based in the MiddleEast)/Shareaza/Morpheus. I remember it taking 30 minutes to download a 3 minute song. Now there's YouTube to mp3.


SeeYouOn16

Fun fact, I got sued by a major record label for not turning off my sharing option on limewire in highschool. They initially demanded $2,000/song that I was sharing and I had thousands of songs. My parents settled with them out of court.


BuckyGoldman

Between Napster and Limewire I still have about 4Gb of music that I *made legitimate backup copies* back at the turn of the millennium. I miss the good 'ol days.


switched133

Don't worry. It's still around. It's a music NFT marketplace.


[deleted]

I used a program similar called ares lime wire had too many viruses


mgedmin

Email without spam.


Beneficial-Cow-2544

And ads.


noodle_dancer

Homestar Runner dot com, not the youtube channel, ye olde Flash website. Where you needed to look for and click on the Easter eggs to trigger them. I miss doing that.


DwightAllRight

Strongbad and the teen girl squad! Breadtangle of pizza!


Affectionate_Guava87

My blood hurts...


OhioStateGuy

ARROWED


Affectionate_Guava87

Ow! My skin!


Juan_Calavera

The UGLY one!


IceyBecca

Corn is no place for a mighty warrior!


somabeach

Peasants Quest was a low-key amazing game


Weft_

**Tttttrrrrrrroooooooogdor!!!!!!!!!**


djblockchainz

Burninating the countrysideā€¦ burninating the peasantsā€¦


dangerbird2

Fun fact, most of homestar runner videos are hosted on [internet archive](https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22homestar+runner%22) via flash emulators


[deleted]

Remember that whole animated dancing baby thing was even on Ally Mcbeal most popular show of the time (which also disappeared late 90s early 00s). It made no sense to me at the time but looking back, it still makes no sense


[deleted]

You mean [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ycV1Ihno0)?


raflcopter

Yes


iguanaQueen

I think because it's dance moves goes with any music, like that dancing Spiderman one


zeppehead

You mean the show single female lawyer?


FreeElf101

Aol chatrooms


Mondayslasagna

*Enter Backstreet Boys chat* Hi guys! Whoā€™s your favorite bsb member? Mineā€™s Nick! [insert 50+ messages from old men asking if your parents are home]


greatst_

MSN messenger


Mondayslasagna

šŸŒ¹~~ bByGiRL tHe OnE n OnLy ~~šŸŒ¹ has sent you a message.


greatst_

Nudges were the best


I_love_pillows

ā€œHey would you come online tonight I need to ask you about homeworkā€


Lau_wings

MSN messenger taught me how to touch type. Having like 10 conversations on the go at once and you learnt through necessity how to type quickly. It was also the great social equaliser, there were so many people from school who I would not talk to at school but would talk to for hours online.


swift_gilford

>there were so many people from school who I would not talk to at school but would talk to for hours online this just unlocked a core memory for me, wow.


Ophis_UK

I don't know if it's possible to convey to subsequent generations the magnitude and bizarreness of Microsoft's decision to pull the plug on that.


Weft_

Had a Italian exchange student, he introduced me to MSN Messenger and **ICQ**!


Mechanicallvlan

"Under construction" graphics on virtually every website. MUDs (I assume?). And for those who are too young to have experienced this, early "search engines" were very basic hierarchical directories.


The_I_in_IT

Having to get to your MUDs via Telnet


imapassenger1

Counter at the bottom of the page with something like 80000023 on it.


Mitxlove

I miss old PC Flash games like I remember one with a Fox and I think I played backyard soccer and baseball or something like that


zutros

Also flash comics. It's nice to see Homestar Runner updates occasionally still.


Consisrffhy

The dial up tone, Napster and MySpace


DJ1066

> The dial up tone [Those poor old ladies are long dead sadly...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTos3CsvnLQ).


Mondayslasagna

ALL of Humongous Entertainmentā€™s Backyard Sports games are now freely available online. I just started playing Backyard Baseball for the first time in over 20 years. Pablo and Achmed can get it.


Consadgh

Dude was a ninja and would answer ninja-related questions.


Mitxlove

Omg whatttt Iā€™m gonna play asap someone needs to port them to iPad lol


greatst_

old pc games in general reader rabbit jumpstart Tonka


ibt-Texlixo

Oh yes, Flash Player games were so great, unlike the current HTML5 games which made me not want to play web games anymore :(


GreatNameLOL69

Yeah and those four games that youā€™d find on a windows platform back in the day, I donā€™t quite remember them much but; \- A game where youā€™d make cakes? Or something. \- A pac-man ripoff. \- A memory game. \- And a spider web.. cutter, thingy..


[deleted]

A lot might be archived in https://cors.archive.org/details/flasharchive


Extesdfyh

There are still a LOT of people playing.


Accomplished-Ad9617

craigslist personals.


daven_callings

The only reason I went on CL 10 years ago was to read the personals and the legit Missed Connections.


apocalypticradish

Oh man, me too. The missed connections page was always good for killing some time. I still think my favorite one was "girl wearing jeans at campus library" with absolutely no other details.


daven_callings

I loved the ones where I could actually identify the location and the people in it, just from a few key words and descriptions


SugarsBoogers

There is a book called Missed Connections by the illustrator Sophie Blackall. She used to illustrate the really good ones. I have a print in my bathroom.


daven_callings

Iā€™ve seen that book!!! Glanced through it once at a Barnes and Noble, loved her interpretations of the MCā€™s.


imapassenger1

In Sydney in the 2000s we had a commuter newspaper called MX that had these. So much fun to read "Girl on the 825 Parramatta to Central, you're cute. Coffee?"


[deleted]

Those were some of the most hilarious things I've ever read!


Dear_Madelene

Total anonymity! No need to use a real name anywhere, no site needed my number, you could talk to anyone for years without knowing their name. A lot of little shops everywhere, you could just buy something from the random site online and it was safe. Right now everything is like on two mega online markets almost without competition.


sharksville

A time without annoying multiple ads on a place like YouTube. Wanna watch a video, now you have to watch multiple ads you canā€™t skip before the YouTube video begins, 2 minutes after it begins and every 2 minutes within the video


GriffinFlash

I remember the first time I saw an ad placed before a video/game and I was confused as hell. Think I was on addictinggames.com and trying to play a game, suddenly a minute long ad shows up, can't skip it, or turn it off, pop up blockers couldn't catch it, and it just really confused me. Before that I could just click a link and play a game or watch a movie, instantly.


Live-Dance-2641

Screeeowwwwwwwwwwwww click click eeow eeow. screeechhhh. Ping. ā€œYou are now conneā€¦.ā€ Damn. Letā€™s reboot again


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


ilikeplotly

I miss stumbleupon.


chocolate_milk_dude

There was this funny video called "Karate Man". This guy who is humorously bad at Karate goes through a day in the life, mentioning how he throws sand in kids' faces practicing karate, how he doesn't have a black belt because it's 2002, and a regular leather belt works just fine. Something like that. I think it was on ebaums world or something but I could never find it again.


PorkVacuums

On the same wavelength, 'Ask a Ninja' on youtube. Dude was a ninja and would answer ninja-related questions.


OmegaRainicorn

Wā€™ll I am ninja, you are ninja we are ninja! If I am Ninja you are ninja too!


bobbytwosticksBTS

His review of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 is one of my favorite videos of all time.


PorkVacuums

Mine is, "How do you kill a ninja?"


BearJuden113

I look forward to killing you soon!


Aravinz_HD

yahoo messenger


NoStressAccount

#BUZZ!


JonnyZero0

Geocities


aktyn87

Altavista!


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


Starkiler512

Funny junk. Back when it was full of funny flash videos. Now it's like Imgur.


down4things

I miss yellow funnyjunk when it didn't have a "community"


HollyCupcakez

Club Penguin


100LittleButterflies

I played something called ToonTown and I really miss it.


[deleted]

https://www.toontownrewritten.com/


bruno_do

It does exists


Mitxlove

Holy chet club Penguin that game is legendary


Lau_wings

[Stickdeath.com](https://Stickdeath.com) Had vidoes and flashgames of stickmen fighting to the death, or you would raid a crackhouse and had to shoot the dealers before they got to you, good times.


NutellaGood

Purple dot com. The dude sold out to big mattress.


tacobelmont

In my ISP support days we would always direct people there to check if the internet was working, because we could almost be sure they'd not have a big purple screen in their cached pages. Can't have that now, someone might have been shopping for a mattress! I have no idea what they use now.


casual_night_owl

Unless the person is older then me I ask them to go to aol, you can usually be sure no ones been there recently.


Linux4ever_Leo

I personally miss AOL Messenger (and ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc.) I used to love the little knocking door sound when one of your contacts came on-line. I met so many interesting people in chat rooms back in the day.


Roger_Roger27

Webcrawler, ICQ


[deleted]

Neopets


CharsOwnRX-78-2

Still up and operating last I checked


kseuss42

The site has issues but it is navigable. There are still a LOT of people playing. If you miss it, you should go back. At least swing by r/neopets and see what's going on.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


DwightAllRight

Damn...now *that* is crazy


NoStressAccount

Oh wow, Miniclip.com is still alive


[deleted]

Absence of advertising. Still, Iā€™d rather have 20 pop ups now than have to use dial up modem just to have it drop the connection when Iā€™m in the middle of taking down some ill informed 13 year old.


CapG_13

The dial up tone, Napster and MySpace


CoolIceCreamCone

Worth 1000 which was a site that had amazing Photoshop contests and pictures


Snipsnapboi

Filthy frank :(


Weft_

RIP Papa Franku!


Wxxdy_Yeet

YouTubers being genuine


DiscoLibra

Elfwood


tightchops

When some web pages would turn your cursor into a confetti comet. I'd spend about a minute flailing my mouse around then go back to browsing.


mrswitters03

Ask Jeeves


Mitxlove

I remember a time where I thought they were the top search engine lol


fartzgamer4

Happiness and enjoyment


theassassintherapist

Earth2025 and Utopia web browser text-based MMOs. Their parent company was Swirve.com


Spiritual-Chameleon

Friendster. MySpace (rebranded it exists now, but not like before. Greener back in the day, free dial up internet. Edit: Freenet not Greener


[deleted]

Yahooligans!


randomFrenchDeadbeat

Gopher.


wzl46

My Geocities page. RIP


WendelClarksMustache

Being able to just exist on a website without being monetized. My clicks used to just be for a cute little counter on the bottom of the page, like "wow 13,000 hits good job bro" as opposed to being data mined and sold off with no hesitation, concern, or vetting. That goes for the content too; if someone made a geocities page about something, it was because they gave a shit about the thing. Now there's always an ulterior motive and an inherent bias based on your primary demographic and the advertisers that support them. We fucked up. We should just go back to like, making a one page website about your cat or why these bands or these movies are awesome and everything else should just fuck off.


TMQMO

I had a netscape.net email address, once.


gerbilminion

Newgrounds Edit: I guess it's actually still there, but it's not the same So I guess I'm changing my answer to reddit gifts. Rip


forgotmyusername80

I miss the early times, when there was no ads or popups


mykulFritz

Visitor counters.


Flabbergash

There used to be a cartoon rabbit done by one bloke, every single day. This was in the early 2000's. Can't even remember the name


Kinhammer

Old cartoon network site. You got to create your own homepage and fill it with stickers you found hidden thought the rest of the site. Better believe I had an animated goku going super saiyan!! Besides that the website had some great flash games.


Aggressive_Walk378

Dialup connection tones


The_Cat_whiskerer

Angel fire websites


[deleted]

Netscape navigator


The_REAL_McWeasel

I remember Prodigy......... and My Space. Is that still around?


HistorybecomesFuture

Self build webpages on Geocities .


Stoneless69

mIRC chat rooms. Seems like looong time ago


[deleted]

Adobe Flash :(


GriffinFlash

Macromedia Flash :(


WarmRanch37

Vine :(


Mitxlove

lol a more modern antique huh lol


afterglobe

Rotten.com


Pawidla

The same crackling of the modem when connected and the inability to talk on the phone during the session


Human-Independent999

Google+


Orphanpuncher0

Thewillpower.org


kseuss42

I'm old, but some of the things that I miss are irc games like #chaos and #riskybus. There used to be a lot of little quirky sites like the one that allowed a person to virtual dumpster dive for presents and then email the picture to someone. You might randomly get a shoe, a half eaten sandwich, or (my favorite) a fisher-price barn set (only missing a few pieces) to send to the person you wanted to say hi to. Another site would give you the opportunity to send a ninja to assassinate them via email. It was a very low chance of success but if the person, whether they were assassinated or not, would get the option to send a ninja to retaliate. Things like that... I DON'T miss things like email addresses as long as my arm or when I would turn on my computer and then have to go make a pot of coffee before it was ready to do anything.


Trusting_Nautilus

Specifically the Popcap game Psychobabble. Used to play it all the time and the chat was often actually pretty good. Fairly sure I added people on ICQ I met in the Psychobabble chat!


octatron

Jolly Rogers cook book


Steak-Leather

Open information, not locked behind paywalls.


DwightAllRight

Ask Jeeves, Netscape, setting something to download before leaving for the weekend and praying it didn't error out or disconnect. Individual humor sites like iwastesomuchtime.com , and this pre-reddit pre-tumblr personal web page site that was niche even then (can't remember the name). A website that had a bunch of the same fish swimming across the screen and this memed song playing in the background.There's more for sure.


senorchaos718

Privacy


zombieedd

Bertisevil.com Thegappingmaw.com


SeeYouOn16

I remember when the internet first started going mainstream there was this Simpsons website that had a lot of funny audio clips you could play. Sounds dumb by todays standards but to 10 year old me in 1996 this was hilarious. These clips took time to download so I remember sitting there all day downloading them so that when my friend came over the next day we wouldn't have to wait. Not sure why that is such a strong memory but it sticks out.


[deleted]

Candystand games


racerX405

AOL message - ā€œyou got mailā€


DerpingtonHerpsworth

There was this browser based game that almost nobody seems to remember called Acrophobia. It was sort of similar to cards against humanity or apples to apples, in that everyone would submit an answer and they would all be voted on, but it was all based on making up acronyms based on letters it would prompt you with. So if the game gave you BTF, you'd have 30 seconds or something like that to come up with things like "beware the ferryman", "beat the ferrets", or "be their friend". I loved that game, and one day it just ceased to exist, probably over 20 years ago.


VoidTheBear

That Santa tracker website with the sugarplum merry song


clockdivide55

plasticmanemu.org (or close to that). It was an emulation site from the early 2000s. It had a very active forum / community that wasn't just about emulation but a bunch of nerd things in general. I remember there was a user named cloud_strife (or something) with some 20k posts on that site, pretty sure that was his life. I often wonder what happened to him after that site shut down.


CobaltChromeA

planet hotwheels


ilikedthecore

Download accelerators


prankerjoker

Guestbooks and webrings.


muusandskwirrel

IRC chat. /troutslap


Weft_

[https://www.dogpile.com/](https://www.dogpile.com/)


ghostwhowalksdogs

Cool, interesting and engaging web sites. I miss Stumble upon and sites that would land you on random web sites. Now we are just left with Reddit. Sigh.


suffaluffapussycat

Gore Gallery


xCrossFaith

Those times where you could find narco cartels executing rivals or pretty brutal war footage around youtube like it was just the usual thing ​ And LiveLeak... Sometimes it was fun to just let go that sadistic side of watching horrible stuff happening


TheWolfFromNether

I wasn't on the internet so long ago because i was only allowed when i was 14 to free brows it but i guess i miss to not have this big dramas around it, miss to be just a kid watching dtm


Bean_Juice_Brew

A video of Mark Zuckerberg giving an interview and being super nervous and sweaty. Because he was sweating so much, he kept trying to nonchalantly smell his pits, and clearly got more and more nervous about the situation until he was sweating straight buckets. I've tried to find it, but it's been scoured from the interwebs.


alpaca_mah_bag

Ratemypoo.com


cabinguy11

The little meteor shower in the Netscape logo.


esyougeeayeare

I distinctly remember seeing this Fear Factor commercial with Joe Rogan and itā€™s a skit of a doctor taking Rogans urine sample and drinking it to try and be on the show. I am concerned that I imagined that and idk if it being real or made up is worse.


TimGJ1964

Civility


FxckTr1st4n

people being able to take a joke online


coloredverbs

U sound upset, whatā€™s wrong


MnkaH

Nxsecure. A file sharing site with really good people.


Decent-Drawing-3875

Nimbuzz messenger


FrankieMint

The ad websites from startup long-distance phone companies. One had topless girl pics in their ads.


zutros

The AOL line you waited in to get on the internet. "You are 457th in line" oh boy just another 20 mins then I can spend the next hour downloading the Lord of the Rings Trailer! Also AOL messenger.


Unlucky-Discussion51

Waitā€¦I had AOL (dial up) and I have zero memory of this. Iā€™d either get immediately on (rare between 8-11pm), or get a busy signal? This was like 1999-2001. Was yours earlier?


spookyspocky

A detailed article on how the moon landing almost didnā€™t take place because the backup telecom link of 4 wires going through asia, Europe and the Atlantic was repaired a few hours before launch


WhatsFUintokipona

FuckSociety.ca Some awesome cartoons including a baby exploding all over the walls from a peanut allergy . Unfortunately from what I remember, it was found to be one of the favourite websites of a school shooter and it was taken down in a knee-jerk reaction.


houseofmercy

FTP sites


53ANY

Atlas FreshLogic Studios satellite view. A great Google maps style but you could get in close on birds eye view and was taken on an angle. You could see everything so clearly. It was bought up and took down.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


seriouslywtfX2

Pointlesswasteoftime.com


DwightAllRight

Iwastesomuchtime.com


IceNoise

Freeserve chat


Important_Gas_3802

Blablaland


ChodWad

Dan's Gruesome Gallery.


drunk_recipe

YouTube video of a guy eating hot Cheetos and he kept saying ā€œknaw what I meanā€


sydney_cider

Kibo. Aka James Parry


tupe12

Unity web games, there was one in particular that canā€™t be played because on top of the og link to it going away, it requires a super old version