Hey all. Since the Internet has just been boiled down to the main big social media sites, it feels like the magic is gone. Whens the last time someone said to you “hey check out this cool website”? It’s always the same: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, FB, Reddit, Discord. Forums are basically dead. Chat rooms are dead. Message boards are dead.
I miss that feeling of just discovering interesting or quirky websites. Lemmy is cool because it feels fresh and new, and there’s not a boat load of users here yet. But what other sites do you guys use or can recommend? I remember browsing Joe cartoon, Newgrounds, weebls, Ebaums, failblog, damnlol, and a bunch of other stupid but either funny or interesting sites.
Are there sites out there that still have that early Internet vibe? I feel like there is a treasure trove of still active websites out there but I have no idea what they are. Any recommendations would be GREATLY appreciated.
Edit: I created !oldweb where these sorts of sites can be shared!
gamecopyworld.com still looks as awesome as ever since the times I used diskettes to transfer a No-CD crack from the local library’s Internet-enabled PC to my offline PC at home, ca. 25 years ago.
If you are interested in technology and or programming, you might want to have a look at Hacker News. It’s a news aggregator for everything that involves technology and there are many interesting sites linked there on a daily basis.
wasn’t failblog like really really dumb, like a worse 9gag?
Ever since Tickld went to shite, the internet hasn’t been the same for me. Oh how I miss those days.
