Not favourite, but I used to use Google search almost exclusively because the results were good, and I could tell it to never show results from certain sites.
No need to tell this community the sad state of affairs it's in now...
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Ytmnd.com ! Punch the keys for God's sake !
Way way way back in the late 90s I visited slashdot multiple times a day. I know it's still around but it is nothing like the commander taco days
Not A website, but in the early modem days there used to be these things called web rings. When you were done going through one site (usually just a few short pages or a short story kind of deal back then), you clicked the 'next' button and it brought you to another random, related (usually) website. My favorite web ring was the Star Wars ring. Learned a lot of expanded universe stuff, and random fan fiction. There was one site it brought me to that told me how to use the force...still trying to make my beer come to my hand :-)
I spent a lot of time in chat rooms roughly 30 years ago. Yahoo chat rooms were fun, and also The Offspring's old website from back in the late 90s had a chat room. Also I used to get a kick out of the "Ate my balls" webring and the dance ones that started with hamster dance.
Pick pretty much any forum.
VideoGameJams
Was a website of midi versions of video game songs and also had guitar tabs for the songs. I would legitimately just listen to those versions of the songs themselves.
Stickdeath
No idea if it's still up or not.
Anyone remember Happy Puppy?
There used to be rotten.com, which posted extremely disturbing pictures and I don't miss that part of it. But I do miss the Rotten Library, which used to be a bastion of suppressed literature.
My old stomping grounds, the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch.
XPhilez
Best free shit. Vanished without a trace in a day. No news, no heads-up just.. Gone
Egg2.com was my favorite flash game archive. Literally just a few hundred links to various flash games.
Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion").
It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone's experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).
Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.
There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.
Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?
I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists... but it is not the same.
The Dark Side of the Net and Goth Girl of the Week. There use to be a goth dating site but I can't remember the name. It doesn't matter I suppose. I will be dead soon any way.
Wormhole by Centerfleet
Or Tea Games
There used to be a website called "thesmartass(dot)info". It had online emulators for old video game consoles as well as some flash games and a bunch of other stuff that I never used. The homepage also had a daily (or it might have been weekly, I've forgotten) artwork that was usually abstract but sometimes it got weird. Like, there is this one image that I sometimes think about, where it was a realistic looking image of a naked woman (or at least I think it was a woman) with a really long and flexible torso, and her torso is contorted so she fits inside a box.
I don't know when it happened but it seems like the domain has been transferred over to someone else and it's a completely different website now. Also, I did check the Wayback Machine and it is archived but it seems like it wasn't archived properly as the website is almost completely broken.
Searchlores.org