Something happened to fmh-child.org
It isn't what it used to be.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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userfriendly.org . One of the great early web comics.
Ghcif.de
Steakandcheese.com when Kap was running it.
I kinda miss stumbleupon. Found a lot of cool flash games and stuff from that!
I liked the idea, but after a while it just kept sending me to the same places.
yeah haha that was a bit annoying!
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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.
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Not dead, but not nearly as alive as it used to be.
https://homestarrunner.com/
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Not defunct and was only my favorite for a very short period of time, but it left an impression and I still find myself referencing it from time to time. Serving the same great content for 25 years!
ZOMBO COM!
I make references to it periodically and only like 2 people IRL have gotten it.
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It's not defunct tho... Newgrounds is still around.
Actually, none of my favorite websites are defunct. Something Awful, LiveJournal, and Penny-Arcade are also still going.
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YTMND from 20 years ago.
Technically it still exists but it's effectively dead.
Forgot about that one
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gamehippo.com was basically itch.io of the late 90's / early 2000's.
The Wayback Machine, I misremembered but sometimes you can find an archived binary/archived external mirror. Often the screenshots are at least.
Edit: Some examples:
2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010401174047/http://www.gamehippo.com/
2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830074642/http://www.gamehippo.com/
2006 (best bet for finding active links): https://web.archive.org/web/20060112161747/http://www.gamehippo.com/
Digg.com used to be my absolute favorite. Then it got bought out by a company who turned it into a content farm and it eventually died out. Now it's back and owned by Kevin Rose again, and I do like it a lot better than Reddit, but I still spend more time on Piefed these days.
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BBS and IRC. Technically neither are totally dead, but that was my introduction to the Internet a few years before the WWW existed.
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Cracked.
mspaintadventures.com, home to the Homestuck web"comic" (it's very mixed-media) among others. It still exists, but doesn't work properly, in part because Homestuck was heavily built on flash animations.
I saw a thing once that archived it fully along with a sandboxed adobe flash, but idk how to find it now.
Not that it is even possible to catch up.
Shit didn't even make sense when it was drip fed to us, like tab from a nearly-empty can in the apocalypse.
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
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.
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.
Wormhole by Centerfleet
Or Tea Games
skafunkrastapunk.com
epic music sharing...
also
dancingmokey.com
FunnyJunk
Bolt.com! It was OG social networking and I loved it. it had chat rooms, message boards, and games etc. Miss that place
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The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.
I used to visit Filesoup's forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.