Newground circa 2002 was hilarious
I used to access that site during my keyboarding class in high school. I have no clue how that site wasn't blocked there
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| Author: | W_Z [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
Somewhat inspired by the "Board Peak" thread, but I had been kicking this around recently anyway. A few posters have already argued over the timeline but I'm putting it at the beginning of 2002 and extending to 2010, personally. It ends at the beginning of Twitter. These are my favorite things to reminisce about when thinking about that period: - eBaum's World vs. YTMND - Brian Peppers memes - all your base are belong to us - Shoes - badmovies.org (i credit it with exploiting "Garbage day!" - disturbingauctions.com - Lazytown memes - somethingawful.com - The Onion articles (though that Golden Age has a timeline of its own) - ePinions - Chuck Norris facts - "you BROKE my LIFE" - Angry Nintendo Nerd/AVGN - the Spoony One/message board - Tay Zonday - angry German kid - Anton Maiden - goRemy - Paul Brogan - MacGuyver memes - Vent chat - the CSFMB - Friendster/MySpace/early FB migration - Star Wars rap - homestarrunner - JibJab - Troll 2 memes - The Guild Admittedly a lot of the memes come from YTMND, but whomever got into the fun, it was hilarious. No agendas or narratives back then. just pure, unfiltered, sometimes dangerous, fun. of course, some of these things still exist, just not as fun as they used to be. join in and add your own favorite memories. |
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| Author: | Brick [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
That site about ninjas, and you could click a button and it became a site about hippos with the same text. |
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| Author: | Rod [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
Joe My Interactive Bra The "Cut While Shaving" journal which was sort of like the Degenerate Dave of the early online journalling community. It was not called blogging at that time. |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
oh and-- - overly attached girlfriend - scott van pelt's voicemail - the crazy girlfriend who sent hundreds of text to a guy who was backpacking through europe with no cell |
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| Author: | Rod [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
The Big Fun Glossary which still exists! http://asecular.com/bigfun/ |
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| Author: | Spaulding [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
I missed all of this but the mention of Lazytown is going to drive me to look at pictures of Magnus Scheving for the next few minutes. Go go go go Lazytown indeed! |
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| Author: | Ogie Oglethorpe [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
Newground circa 2002 was hilarious I used to access that site during my keyboarding class in high school. I have no clue how that site wasn't blocked there
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| Author: | KDdidit [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
Seanbaby I suppose |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
It's like I missed out on the entire generation. This must be what my parents felt like when they were starting a family while going to school during the late 60s. |
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| Author: | This Ends in Antioch [ Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
LEEEROY JENKINS |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Sat Mar 13, 2021 9:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
The hamster dance was pretty much the pinnacle, right? The original hell.com site was pretty awesome. History of it is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell.com |
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| Author: | Tall Midget [ Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
Juggs |
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| Author: | Hussra [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
A fish, a barrel, a smoking gun 192.86.75.309 How do you work this thing Jesus Loves the Acid The Visible Life of Abdi LaRue The Original Borat: web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/ |
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| Author: | newper [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
https://brownschickenmassacre.ytmnd.com/ https://brownfloyd.ytmnd.com/ https://mike-murphy.ytmnd.com/ https://hesdrunkonmaranaraandmeatballs.ytmnd.com/ https://itsamurphslife.ytmnd.com/ |
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| Author: | Drunk Squirrel [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
good dolphin wrote: It's like I missed out on the entire generation. This must be what my parents felt like when they were starting a family while going to school during the late 60s. I was very aware of early internet stuff. Then around 2000 I moved to the sticks and just faded away. I blame raising a family, poor infrastructure out here while there was an ever increasing focus on graphic intensive webpages and going outside every now and again. |
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| Author: | Ron Wolfley [ Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Favorite Bits From the Golden Age of the Internet |
whitehouse.com subservientchicken.com |
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