Old Sites You Miss

[7eve70rd]

IMDB Message Boards were awesome.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

The Mega Man 10 website because it was so hilarious that Capcom accidentally used footage from Mega Man Unlimited as the background
(for those who don't know, Unlimited was originally called Mega Man 10 until Capcom dropped a Mega Man 10)

 

[mammonite]

nicoblog/kissanime/friendster , also the internet before is not restricted , the deepweb was not deepweb it's just a normal site, like ogrish etc. etc.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

There was a manga scantalator site called Otakumole that housed raws and a community of freelance scanners and translators that would translate anything well before most groups could release their own cleaned up posts. It was especially a goldmine for projects that weren't popular enough for a group to keep translating or series that were too niche.

 

[χKai]

Cyberjoueur Bomberman
An experience unlike any other, it was like Super Bomberman on SNES, but online and up to 5-Player, with the base speed increased to the maximum. There's still never been another Bomberman experience like it, and I have never seen it again since.

 

[Harke]

I miss back when hobbyist groups were running their own crappy little geocities pages with trash-tier HTML (I say this with genuine nostalgia) and IRC groups. Gamesages for cheats and guides, before IGN bought and ruined them. Fileplanet for grabbing patches for games. Also miss GameSpy somewhat, from back when self-hosted game servers were far more common.

 

[tuuko]

Doodletoo used to be a lot of fun. It was just rooms where ppl could hangout and draw together. There were some really cool regulars who would always be hanging out drawing insanely good stuff but it mostly devolved into griefing, dicks, racial slurs and certain easy to draw hate-symbols lol. Still though, I do miss it a lot. It was shut down around 2019, I think, and nothing has ever really replaced the kind of funky atmosphere that you could find on there. Theres a wiki with some notible events/users if you're interested in what it was like - lots of NSFW from what I can remember, though. Most public rooms just look like your average bar/school toilet.

Not even that many screenshots from it around anymore :(

 

[geckomantis]

Pocketheaven was my favorite forum back in the day and where all the good GBA hacking was happening.

 

[Loops]

Newgrounds back in it's prime, Nintendo VIP Forums back in the GC/GBA/ Early DS days, and a bunch of HTML/ Geocities fan pages much like Harke said!

 

[Xeno]

I miss Gamefaqs when it had a lot of active users on the forums and there was multiple guides for the popular games. I also miss geocities. Yahoo and AOL Instant Messenger too.

 

[Pokenami's iconPokenami]

LittleBigPlanet Central, LittleBigPlanetarium and LittleBigNetwork were three forums I visited and posted the heck out of during my LBP days.

Another site I miss is Jelli Radio (Old version) and Emuparadise

 

[DunkeyKong]

LittleBigPlanet Central, LittleBigPlanetarium and LittleBigNetwork were three forums I visited and posted the heck out of during my LBP days.

Another site I miss is Jelli Radio (Old version) and Emuparadise

It felt like I've been here before, it's so nostalgic…also Jane Doe?

 

[NeroHackingRom]

Skyblog/skyrock.

Had some cool stuff there from high school, like 20 years old pictures and comments from friends. Good memories I could go back to when I felt like it. But some day they apparently archived it to some server in France where you have to PHYSICALLY go to get an archived version of your old blog. They wanted to preserve it somewhere but damn, could at least make it accessible somewhere online.

They announced they were going to shut down, but since I only went there like maybe once a year I missed the announcement and then ''poof!'' all those old pictures, discussions, rants, poems, comments vanished.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Xanga, Favslist, Angelfire

 

[Pockets]

I was probably a little too young to be on there but I don't think a single social media platform has come close to replicating the magic Myspace had.

The fact you could learn some basic HTML and fully customize your profile to your liking is something I've been wanting to see again for a long time. You could create something entirely unique to you and you could gauge a lot about a person based on what they chose to put on their profile whether that be music or videos or whatever. Now most social media sites let you change your profile picture, have a short bio and maybe have a banner image but that's it.

 

[bloodywing]

I miss the old DeviantArt. New one is flooded with AI

Since many of you miss web 1.0 websites and stuff like geocities, really check out neocities :3

 

[χKai]

The fact you could learn some basic HTML and fully customize your profile to your liking

God  damn

This is why I tried to get people not to use Facebook with it's uniformity and legal name requirement (blech!), but unfortunately nobody listened to me.

I think Myspace was percieved as juvenile for some reason? Weird, considering the kinds of things I used to see on there.. ?

I miss MySpace. I miss Tom.

 

[hazys]

I miss running into random fansites run by one very dedicated person. Some are still around, like Serenes Garden for Fire Emblem or Serebii for Pokémon, but most are gone and I don't even remember them anymore.

I also miss forums, obviously, which is why I'm posting here.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Half joking, half serious, I do miss altavista.com, never liked the web results of certain G corporation.
I miss anime-genesis.com mostly the forums.

 

[hazys]

God  damn

This is why I tried to get people not to use Facebook with it's uniformity and legal name requirement (blech!), but unfortunately nobody listened to me.

I think Myspace was percieved as juvenile for some reason? Weird, considering the kinds of things I used to see on there.. ?

I miss MySpace. I miss Tom.

Facebook was a very different proposal from Myspace. Facebook was basically "what if you could see what everyone you've ever met has been up to since you last saw them," which basically requires your real identity. Myspace was a teen/hobbyist/self-expression thing.

Ironically Facebook has sort of become that. The only young people I know who still use it are there for the special interest/hobbyist groups. It's very subcultural now.

 

[χKai]

Facebook was a very different proposal from Myspace. Facebook was basically "what if you could see what everyone you've ever met has been up to since you last saw them," which basically requires your real identity. Myspace was a teen/hobbyist/self-expression thing.

Ironically Facebook has sort of become that. The only young people I know who still use it are there for the special interest/hobbyist groups. It's very subcultural now.

Myspace was designed to be able to connect and communicate with people you know from around the world and keep up with all your friends and family and basically do the same. Fucking. Thing.

 

[Gorse]

I miss running into random fansites run by one very dedicated person. Some are still around, like Serenes Garden for Fire Emblem or Serebii for Pokémon, but most are gone and I don't even remember them anymore.

Unbelievably, an effing ton of these are still around and very active for Transformers, like Seibertron and TFWorld2005. (And, of course, alt.toys.transformers!) The webmasters are, like, in their mid-50s and just never stopped updating them, which I think is pretty cool.

 

[hazys]

I think that's awesome. Those little passion projects are the soul of the internet.

 

[Jotaro]

onemanga (the forums) and msn (yeah i know, i just liked that app, one of the few, i ever used, for chatting with some forum friends)

 

[Harke]

Legit, it does feel like a lot of those older-style sites are going to be making a comeback. After all, we're all posting on a forum in 2025. =P

Anyone remember web rings? Networks of sites all linking to each others' stuff, usually on dedicated Links pages, to help people find cool sites they might be into? It wasn't about ad revenue or compensation usually, just word-of-mouth dissemination of interesting things. That's how we did it before Google came into the scene. Might even be something to suggest to the mods here, actually...