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Any website, media, or form of internet technology that just disappeared.

Visiting them feels like you're found a lost ghost town from the past, and feels spooky.

Even back in 2007, the internet was a much different of a place. But going deeper, the horror awaits.

Just wait a few years. Popular MMOs will be empty, places full of creepy people, awaiting for unlucky web explorers.

It'll be like Worlds Chat (Is World's online still up?) all over again.

This topic is for:

-Creepy internet exploration stories

-Website URLs (mark if NSFW, or if it has a virus warning, just to be secure)

-And nostalgic web moments.

Cats.
Everyone, everything, everywhere.

256-color .GIFs

(Edit: I know GIFs Are like 256 color anyway, but I mean GIFs from the 256 bit color era, like windows 95-98 and all that)

I have a folder full of them from when I made my own webpages:

Friendster.
Back when it was still big and used to mess around my friends accounts back in the day. These days it's become a web gaming site filled with people from thailand for some reason.

Onemanga.com
Before its manga library was taken down, it was the number one destinations for all of my friends to read the latest manga fan translations. Not sure what happened to it now.

(someone is gonna punch me for this) the early days of 9gag, back when the community was small, and we tried our best for ACTUAL originality.

not sure what else, though. I never went further into the internet until 2012.

roblox.
please dont kill me

AOL. It seems barbaric nowadays that you basically needed an account with Time Warner just to access the web…

Stick RPG anyone? A couple months ago a picture of Stick RPG 2 was on the Video Game Logic gallery. Some users remembered it, some didn't even know there was a sequel. Mentioning this, any of you go on Armorgames, Kongregate, or Addictinggames to kill time? I spent the early parts of my internet travels there. Fun times, wasted hours back then.

Ahem.

Worlds Chat is still online and has a cult following along with its regulars. We should explore it someday.

In Activeworlds which is a virtual world made a couple months after Worlds Chat was created, if you go to AW ground zero, you can find stuff from the 90s including buildings created by users. It's still running to this day, though it doesn't have much of a cult following compared to Worlds Chat.

Ah, I remember Stick RPG and the long long awaited sequel. I used to adore Stickpage.com which is still around. I understand the fourms are a good place for people who want to get into animation. Speaking of flash there is albinoblacksheep which I remember was a lot of fun for watching stuff, when it was just a small list of animations. I would play a lot on Armor Games and Crazy Monkey Games in that past. Good times.

• Kuro5hin used to be a fairly active tech news site until the trolls got organized and posted crap until all the other contributors left.

• Discordian and Subgenius references have almost disappeared from the web. They used to be all over the place.

• Web rings. Member sites would include Forward and Back links that would pass the current site ID to a CGI on the web ring's host that would redirect you to the next site in the ring.

• Anipike Classic, compared to the new design.

hmmm….

1.Old Youtube

2. Old memes of 2007

3.Fuck it, everything from 2007 and earlier.

@Crouching sloth

Damn you, I was totally going to post the Space Jam website

That website is turning into a time capsule of 90's website design. Fascinating to look back at that and remember when every web page looked like it

@Topic

Anyone remember geocities?

What about Cofmeta in Activeworlds.

Nobody is ever there, and everything is broken/textures missing.

And the graphics look like they haven't advanced since 1998:

how about Neopets,toontown and dragonfable?

XGen Studios, AddictingGames, FreeOnlineGames, and various other Flash game portals that failed to integrate themselves with social networking sites. Ah, Stick Arena, I wish people would stop playing with God Mode.

. . .

BTW, Stick RPG 2 is out. It actually happened.

Here's the first site ever made:
http://info.cern.ch/

There is also bertisevil.tv but the site is down.

Spadinner YTPs, Doom wad sharing websites, the ALT board, and much much more.

http://halo.bungie.net/
Bungie.net had a massive site update back in January 2013. They completely changed the layout. However, instead of updating the site, they made the updated version an entirely different site, with the old Bungie.net becoming halo.bungie.net. You can't sign in or anything anymore, you can only lurk through relics of the past.

The forums are quite literally dead, however, each thread has a link to the thread on the new site.

Why did we stop rickrolling people? Now it's about those disgusting shock sites and shit like that…