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.
StumbleUpon
Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.
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.
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.
YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it’s effectively dead.
deleted by creator
Forgot about that one
not dead, but pretty dead anyway: cracked.com
Cracked had a 10/10 movie podcast that was stopped abruptly (after it was bought up & butchered ,laying off like 100 staff) & it was the best movie podcast.
i fondly remember one post once that had me in tears, about teaching somali pirates about ebay
I liked them until they got political. Totally ruined their vibe.
typical dot world
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.
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
Rip Stumble upon.
reddit
No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean the online file storage (would now be called ‘cloud’ storage) site that it was before it died and Tom bought the domain.
It had an astounding 300MB of space available for free, much more than the contemporary competition.
Of course now there’s Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Myspace was just too far ahead of their time.
300mb is pretty freaking decent
Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.
Florida man
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 used to love IMDB before it got taken over. Especially the old forums where pretty much every TV show, every actor, etc… all had a forum on their page to discuss.
I would spend hours on there discussing the latest episodes of BSG, or Lost, or what have you. It was legitimately a water cooler for television watchers when no one in the real world shared the same television interests as me.
For Lost, the number of debates during that first couple seasons about what the connection would be in Locke and Hume being named after philosophers who wrote on human nature.
Or basically an easy place to go and discuss any thoughts or questions about a movie you just watched, or to find out if anyone else felt like an actor’s performance was good/bad/etc…
It was just a fun place to hang out for a movie/TV buff. When they took it away, I was pretty sad.
