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.

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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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

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

The Big Fun Glossary which still exists!

http://asecular.com/bigfun/

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

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!

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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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Seanbaby I suppose

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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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

LEEEROY JENKINS

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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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Juggs

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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/

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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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

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.

whitehouse.com
subservientchicken.com