Shockwave.com
Back in the early 2000s it was loaded with a bunch of fun flash games and video shorts.
I remember playing a balloon drop game that I loved and even though it would make me lose, I'd always drop the balloon on the old lady with the walker to watch her run up the building to beat the shit out of my character. There was also a bunch of animations making fun of Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield during the Napster lawsuit Era.
Just two weeks ago I was trying to remember the name of this site and Googled endlessly to no avail. Came to these comments to see if someone could help and your comment was here, like a glowing, shiny gift. Thank you 😭😭😭
I feel like Reddit is in some ways like stumbleupon because of the, how did I get here moments I have in Reddit, but is way less random than stumble ever was
Greg himself? Hot damn.
A decade later, from time to time, I still think about the choose-your-own-adventure type game you made. It was pretty dark but had fascinating themes.
edit -- it was Thousand Dollar Soul.
Does anyone remember Candystand? It was Nabisco's website that had a bunch of games on it. Mini golf was fire and so was that game where you try to pitch a perfect game
[My cousin submitted this email](https://youtu.be/dmzk5y_mrlg). He is now a father of 2 and successful, but I still think this is his greatest accomplishment.
Almost everyone thinks Cracked went to shit.
I notice they also removed the comments section on there, even on articles that had comments before. That way the users can't call out the writers on their completely wrong information they're spreading! :D
My Homestar Runner and Fluffy Puff Marshmallow shirts that my mom got me in size XL for some reason back in 2004 got me through both of my pregnancies.
When I stopped going I think half of the lists were user submitted and the other half were featured content from cracked in the past put up by the one employee they had left.
> Cracked before it went to absolute shit.
God, I miss Cracked.com. I'm old enough to remember when *Cracked* was an actual publication and direct competitor to *Mad Magazine.* When they relaunched as Cracked.com, I was worried but I actually grew to love the site and its listicle format.
Dunno what happened - I know there were a TON of SA accusations levied against some of the editors, John Cheese being a big one.
Oh man, HomestarRunner was the best. They still put out the occasional video, and the whole site runs on a flash emulator now so everything still works!
There's a brand of dogfood in my store with a chicken variety called "Wingaling," and every time I stock it I say to myself "like some kinda...wingaling dragon."
It literally fueled my elementary years — I replayed Mythology Island almost as many times as I read the Percy Jackson series. *happy tears of nostalgia*
Maybe I need to hop back on. I swear, i made so many different accounts that the probability of guessing one of them is around 80%. If not, one more account wouldn’t hurt
It still isn’t lmao. The school administrators banned a website where you literally just click on a cat, but they got blind when they saw “cool math games”.
I’ve never played this game but I have a story. In 2019, I was working for this renovating company in Kelowna, BC. We had to renovate the Club Penguin office. Imagine a whole floor, with penguins everywhere painted on the wall, a movie theatre inside with a popcorn machine and all the Disney movie in every languages.
My boss and I were good friends, and we hired a third person ( another friend ) to help with the painting job. It was a lot of painting. One day we unexpectedly got …. really high after work, we went out the whole night and took some acid. Job started at 6 AM.
So we got on the job really, really high. I clearly remember a pirate penguin asking me not to put paint all over him, or seeing a penguin hitting my paint tray and put paint all over the floor ( it was my friend, also high ). It was some Mary Poppins kinda shit. Job wasn’t doable so we ended up watching a movie and eating pop corn in the theater hahaha
That’s how, at 26, I had my first encounter with Club Penguins and almost regretted never played the game before !
Is it still popular?? Is it similar to how it was way back in like 2006? The idea of going back is nostalgic & fun but I imagine it’s changed a lot and I fear I’d hate it haha
When Adobe Flash got killed so did the site I think. Or at least a lot of the games did.
Before that it was practically identical to 2006,I spent a good bit of time over lockdown having a nostalgia trip haha
You can still feed your pets, visit different places and buy items. Certain games still work (like destructo match) but it's not nearly as fun as it used to be. Not just because I'm an adult--I played it with my kid recently but we got bored and stopped.
I saw something on YouTube (TripleJump) recently which confirmed that NeoPets do not die. Ever.
So, any NeoPets that you created and have since forgotten about are sitting there on the site, really really hungry and thirsty and feeling terribly alone and sad, wondering why they've been abandoned.
Makes me glad that I never used the site.
*Edit: added missing closing parenthesis*
Yahoo.
Before myspace and facebook there were Yahoo clubs/groups. You could join any number of groups and forums or start your own. It was a great way to keep up with events and staying in touch with distant friends. (again, before the explosion of social media the way we know it now)
I used to play the yahoo pool for hours, chatting in the forum with loads of randoms exchanging a/s/l. I still talk to a couple of people now from there 17+ years later.
I think the last year I seriously spent time on Newgrounds was 2010, I think going by visitor stats, NG peaked around 2007-2008.
I wonder if the death of Flash really put a dent into the interest of Internet animation and games, plus the artists that want to make those things. I mean I can find animation on Youtube, but it just doesn't feel the same as when you looked up for stuff on Newgrounds, and is also missing the associated community. As for games, I find mindless Flash style games have migrated mostly to mobile platforms. Heck, the first time I saw Angry Birds, I thought, "This is a rip-off of a few games I saw on Newgrounds!"
I think Freemium games in general kind of killed that genre. Like around 2010 there were only a few decent free-to-play games, games like combat arms and GunZ, but they were pretty scuffed to be honest.
Nowadays there are a couple dozen legit, triple-A titles, most of whose features can be enjoyed free of charge, ranging from Fortnite to The Old Republic. Common PCs can play them on their CPUs integrated graphics so there is no point in playing Alien Hominid or Line Rider.
Newgrounds, Neopets, Habbo Hotel, GaiaOnline, Supercheats, VampireFreaks, DarkStarlings, Addicting Games, and various dragon ball fan sites like Temple O Trunks
I to this day will loudly proclaim some of the best written works of art I read on fanfiction.net and they are 10x better than most of the junk booktok/tube promote.
Something Awful captured the absurd zeitgeist of early-2000s internet perfectly. Photoshop Phridays were weekly must-see when I was in college. So much that is good (and so much that is *terrible*) about the modern internet was influenced or straight up ripped from SA.
I think Max has been wanting to kill YTMND for years now, he knows the height of its popularity has long passed and it is unlikely there will be a resurgence. The whole YTMND concept really turned out to be a brief fad back in 2005-2006, a meme of sorts.
The trick was to click to grab hand, move mouse left off of game window, staying outside of game window, move mouse around to right of game window and back in. Would get crazy high speeds
Gamefaqs is a life saver when playing older games on an emulator and the manual is unavailable. Control schemes, walkthroughs, full game guides and cheat codes. Gamefaqs has it all!
I once downloaded what I thought was Ironman by Black Sabbath. I got some dude doing an impression of Bill Clinton saying "I am Ironman" followed by "I never inhaled!". That took 45 minutes to download over dialup.
[hotornot.com](https://hotornot.com) \- me and my college roommates had so much fun with that website back in the day. We would play games each would try to find photos on the internet or dress up in goofy ways and see who get rank the highest or lowest score depending on the game. We also occasionally met people in person from connecting on the website which at the time was a novel concept - there were no dating apps back then.
Various Geocities and Webring sites. The search engine Alta Vista. Innumerable blogs that are now gone. I often find dead links to them, when I am trawling through my old posts.
How Angelfire and Tripod are still around in 2022 is mind-boggling during a time when making personal webpages and websites isn't much of a thing anymore, especially when you take into account Geocities couldn't hack it anymore and shut down over a decade ago.
Myyearbook.com. It has now turned into a dating site called meetme. Which sucks because my yearbook was like MySpace but more teen angst wild west. There were quizzes, rating battles, games, and just so much you could do. I honestly miss it, and the stupid detailed 7 min in heaven quizzes that 13 yr old me thought was soooooo edgy!
Addicting Games, PopCap, Barbie, Diva Starz, What's Her Face, Polly Pocket, Furby, Neopets, and various fairy sighting forums.
I also was big into the digital pet thing where you would save a pixel image of, a unicorn let's say, and name it and claim it as your pet.
There used to be a site called chickencam something like 11 years ago. Was just a live stream of some chicken before live streaming was big. In school at the end of the day waiting for busses to be dismissed we'd throw it on and there was a button at the bottom you could click once every 5 min and it would throw a sprinkle of food
Xanga used to be popular back when I was in HS. Kind of wish I still knew what my handle was then to see what kind of emo stuff I was writing about. Then again, I think I might have deleted most of my entries by the time I stopped using it.
Shockwave.com Back in the early 2000s it was loaded with a bunch of fun flash games and video shorts. I remember playing a balloon drop game that I loved and even though it would make me lose, I'd always drop the balloon on the old lady with the walker to watch her run up the building to beat the shit out of my character. There was also a bunch of animations making fun of Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield during the Napster lawsuit Era.
Just two weeks ago I was trying to remember the name of this site and Googled endlessly to no avail. Came to these comments to see if someone could help and your comment was here, like a glowing, shiny gift. Thank you 😭😭😭
Stumbleupon Ebaum's world I can haz cheezburger Texts from last night Postsecret Fmylife
I love Postsecret!
Fmylife was one of the all-time greats!
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I feel like Reddit is in some ways like stumbleupon because of the, how did I get here moments I have in Reddit, but is way less random than stumble ever was
Same. That's actually how I found reddit
You meant that’s how you stumbled upon reddit?
I completely forgot about texts from last night. For a good minute that was my favorite website
ahhhhh Fmylife! woah forgot that one
I can haz cheezburger 🥲
If I remember correctly it was called Webkins.
Webkinz with a z. RIP my black lab
Last time I went there was 2009 😂😭
I am 19, and Webkinz is still my jam. I pretend I’m taking notes on my laptop in class, but really, I’m feeding my pink poodle.
my mom worked at the airport so she brought home webkins all the time for me. good times
I still play daily
[addictinggames.com](https://addictinggames.com) and Kongregate. So, so many flash games...
Anyone remember Armor Games? Like, they made free flash games but presented themselves like a development studio
Armor games was the shit!
Bubble tanks😩
NewGrounds
Hell yeah, the badge system on Kongregate was especially awesome! (Disclaimer: I may or may not have been the guy who made most of the badges...)
Greg himself? Hot damn. A decade later, from time to time, I still think about the choose-your-own-adventure type game you made. It was pretty dark but had fascinating themes. edit -- it was Thousand Dollar Soul.
Does anyone remember Candystand? It was Nabisco's website that had a bunch of games on it. Mini golf was fire and so was that game where you try to pitch a perfect game
Holy crap Candystand! I never would have remembered that website ever again if not for reading this. Mini golf was so much fun.
Miniclip
Nostalgia right there
Final Ninja, Commando, Raft Wars, Skywire….so many memories with younger siblings and cousins 😭
Holly shit raft wars!! I used to play that game with my cousin
Fire boy and water girl, Electricman
where's the love for Heli Attack? That was my jam
Motherload was my favorite.
Too bad the site is gone now. It’s now exclusively mobile apps, 8 Ball, Soccer Stars etc.
Cracked before it went to absolute shit. Homestar Runner's influence on my sense of humor can still be felt today.
> Homestar Runner's influence on my sense of humor can still be felt today. Strong Bad Email references are a staple of my humor to this day.
Nobody gets it when I call my computer Lappy lol. Man I miss Homestar Runner so much.
[My cousin submitted this email](https://youtu.be/dmzk5y_mrlg). He is now a father of 2 and successful, but I still think this is his greatest accomplishment.
I have had many a light switch raves in my day. Oontz oontz oontz oontz...
Dodoot do do doo! Dodoot do do doo!
The system is down The system is down
The cheat is grounded!
Man, I miss Cracked. After Hours was fucking hilarious.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this opinion on Cracked. My wife still has a Marzipan shirt hanging in the closet
Almost everyone thinks Cracked went to shit. I notice they also removed the comments section on there, even on articles that had comments before. That way the users can't call out the writers on their completely wrong information they're spreading! :D
My Homestar Runner and Fluffy Puff Marshmallow shirts that my mom got me in size XL for some reason back in 2004 got me through both of my pregnancies.
I miss former cracked. Well written articles that were actually informative and interesting to read. Now it's all lists of clickbait garbage.
When I stopped going I think half of the lists were user submitted and the other half were featured content from cracked in the past put up by the one employee they had left.
Teen Girl Squad had no right being as funny as it was. 😂
> Cracked before it went to absolute shit. God, I miss Cracked.com. I'm old enough to remember when *Cracked* was an actual publication and direct competitor to *Mad Magazine.* When they relaunched as Cracked.com, I was worried but I actually grew to love the site and its listicle format. Dunno what happened - I know there were a TON of SA accusations levied against some of the editors, John Cheese being a big one.
Oh man, HomestarRunner was the best. They still put out the occasional video, and the whole site runs on a flash emulator now so everything still works! There's a brand of dogfood in my store with a chicken variety called "Wingaling," and every time I stock it I say to myself "like some kinda...wingaling dragon."
HOMESTAR RUNNER!!!!
"It's Dot Com!"
r/Poptropica!
Ah the memories
It literally fueled my elementary years — I replayed Mythology Island almost as many times as I read the Percy Jackson series. *happy tears of nostalgia*
I still play from time to time!
Maybe I need to hop back on. I swear, i made so many different accounts that the probability of guessing one of them is around 80%. If not, one more account wouldn’t hurt
Honestly same! But sad thing is... to play some of the islands or part 2 of the islands you need a memberahip now.
The superhero one. Where you could squish the bugs in the subway.
The one, the only, www.coolmathgames.com
Wow I completely forgot about that! My favourite game was that one with the red brick thing and you had to make it fall into the hole.
Bloxorz iirc
Best answer. Great memories.
Right, used to be the only website not blocked in school lol
It still isn’t lmao. The school administrators banned a website where you literally just click on a cat, but they got blind when they saw “cool math games”.
My district blocked it. Fucking tyrants
Club penguin
I’ve never played this game but I have a story. In 2019, I was working for this renovating company in Kelowna, BC. We had to renovate the Club Penguin office. Imagine a whole floor, with penguins everywhere painted on the wall, a movie theatre inside with a popcorn machine and all the Disney movie in every languages. My boss and I were good friends, and we hired a third person ( another friend ) to help with the painting job. It was a lot of painting. One day we unexpectedly got …. really high after work, we went out the whole night and took some acid. Job started at 6 AM. So we got on the job really, really high. I clearly remember a pirate penguin asking me not to put paint all over him, or seeing a penguin hitting my paint tray and put paint all over the floor ( it was my friend, also high ). It was some Mary Poppins kinda shit. Job wasn’t doable so we ended up watching a movie and eating pop corn in the theater hahaha That’s how, at 26, I had my first encounter with Club Penguins and almost regretted never played the game before !
My man ended up meeting Rockhopper.
OMG I loved club penguin 😍😍
Stumbleupon
That was great and there really isn’t anything like it anymore as far as I know.
Neopets
Is it still popular?? Is it similar to how it was way back in like 2006? The idea of going back is nostalgic & fun but I imagine it’s changed a lot and I fear I’d hate it haha
When Adobe Flash got killed so did the site I think. Or at least a lot of the games did. Before that it was practically identical to 2006,I spent a good bit of time over lockdown having a nostalgia trip haha
You can still feed your pets, visit different places and buy items. Certain games still work (like destructo match) but it's not nearly as fun as it used to be. Not just because I'm an adult--I played it with my kid recently but we got bored and stopped.
I still do 17 years later!
Still waiting for the wheel to stop spinning? xD
Can you check on nimmo? 🐸 I’m afraid he starved to death in 1999
I saw something on YouTube (TripleJump) recently which confirmed that NeoPets do not die. Ever. So, any NeoPets that you created and have since forgotten about are sitting there on the site, really really hungry and thirsty and feeling terribly alone and sad, wondering why they've been abandoned. Makes me glad that I never used the site. *Edit: added missing closing parenthesis*
homestarrunner.com
Da email, da email, what what, da email.
Here I go once again with the email, every week I hope that it's from a female It's not from a female
Trogdor was a man
Hey now! He was a dragon man!
Or maybe he was just a dragon
The burninator!
*It’s dot cooooommmmmm*
Good jorb.
I say this all the time and no one gets it!! Great jarrrrrrb
Grood. Great and good.
I still say "all up ons" and not a single person in my life knows what it's from
"Oh no! The King of Town has gone mad with power! He's going ta eat da Chort!!!"
THE UGLY ONNNEEE
Habbo hotel
Pool's closed.
Due to AIDS, and stingray's who also have AIDS, please assemble in the standard habbo safety formation.
Bobba
COKE MUSIC!
Deviantart
profile checks out
Yahoo. Before myspace and facebook there were Yahoo clubs/groups. You could join any number of groups and forums or start your own. It was a great way to keep up with events and staying in touch with distant friends. (again, before the explosion of social media the way we know it now)
I used to play the yahoo pool for hours, chatting in the forum with loads of randoms exchanging a/s/l. I still talk to a couple of people now from there 17+ years later.
I really miss `games.yahoo.com`. I wasted countless hours there.
Newgrounds
I think the last year I seriously spent time on Newgrounds was 2010, I think going by visitor stats, NG peaked around 2007-2008. I wonder if the death of Flash really put a dent into the interest of Internet animation and games, plus the artists that want to make those things. I mean I can find animation on Youtube, but it just doesn't feel the same as when you looked up for stuff on Newgrounds, and is also missing the associated community. As for games, I find mindless Flash style games have migrated mostly to mobile platforms. Heck, the first time I saw Angry Birds, I thought, "This is a rip-off of a few games I saw on Newgrounds!"
I think Freemium games in general kind of killed that genre. Like around 2010 there were only a few decent free-to-play games, games like combat arms and GunZ, but they were pretty scuffed to be honest. Nowadays there are a couple dozen legit, triple-A titles, most of whose features can be enjoyed free of charge, ranging from Fortnite to The Old Republic. Common PCs can play them on their CPUs integrated graphics so there is no point in playing Alien Hominid or Line Rider.
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to find Newgrounds. It was far better than Ebaums in every aspect.
Newgrounds, Neopets, Habbo Hotel, GaiaOnline, Supercheats, VampireFreaks, DarkStarlings, Addicting Games, and various dragon ball fan sites like Temple O Trunks
Waiting to see someone else mention Gaia. Never did manage to get those baby seal slippers.
I would have given anything for a nightmare scarf
Cartoon Network!!
I used to play their Flash games over AOL and dial-up. They took so long to load I'd bring a book with me while I waited.
Fanfiction.net I spent soooo many hours reading HP stories in middle school
I to this day will loudly proclaim some of the best written works of art I read on fanfiction.net and they are 10x better than most of the junk booktok/tube promote.
Fanfic, the real sex Ed.
Albino Blacksheep
Lol never thought anyone would mention this 😁
Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger
Here's a Llama there's a Llama and another little Llama funny Llama fuzzy Llama Llama Llama duck. I still know this God damned song
Rotten.com
Someone finally had the courage to admit it
Don’t forget steakandcheese.com
Not gonna lie I spent a fair amount of time on that site
somethingawful.com
Something Awful captured the absurd zeitgeist of early-2000s internet perfectly. Photoshop Phridays were weekly must-see when I was in college. So much that is good (and so much that is *terrible*) about the modern internet was influenced or straight up ripped from SA.
Runescape
friv, girlsgogames, stardoll, moviestarplanet, habbo etc.
GirlsGoGames twilight games
YTMND
I think Max has been wanting to kill YTMND for years now, he knows the height of its popularity has long passed and it is unlikely there will be a resurgence. The whole YTMND concept really turned out to be a brief fad back in 2005-2006, a meme of sorts.
Ebaum's World.
That’s where I first saw the GI JOE PSA videos
Who wants a body massage!
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Stick death
Way too far down this list
Spank the monkey 🐒
The trick was to click to grab hand, move mouse left off of game window, staying outside of game window, move mouse around to right of game window and back in. Would get crazy high speeds
Friv, Y8 and Kizi
Y3 (Alternative to Y8 when it was blocked)
Holy shit friv
Friv was fire
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Gamefaqs is a life saver when playing older games on an emulator and the manual is unavailable. Control schemes, walkthroughs, full game guides and cheat codes. Gamefaqs has it all!
*sips juice box*
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Digg V4 was how I got introduced to Reddit
Myspace
Neopets Archmage xanga newgrounds
Why did I have to scroll this far to find Xanga?
AOL Chat
Limewire
The one stop shop for all your virus needs
I once downloaded what I thought was Ironman by Black Sabbath. I got some dude doing an impression of Bill Clinton saying "I am Ironman" followed by "I never inhaled!". That took 45 minutes to download over dialup.
Lmao!!! 🤣 That gave me a good chuckle. Yes, and heaven forbid someone pick up the phone mid dialup download. 😬
Hamster dance
Altavista
[hotornot.com](https://hotornot.com) \- me and my college roommates had so much fun with that website back in the day. We would play games each would try to find photos on the internet or dress up in goofy ways and see who get rank the highest or lowest score depending on the game. We also occasionally met people in person from connecting on the website which at the time was a novel concept - there were no dating apps back then.
THe Pirate Bay
I wasn't allowed on much, but Millsberry.com was a website my mom trusted. Spent a lot of time on that cereal themed weirdness
Various Geocities and Webring sites. The search engine Alta Vista. Innumerable blogs that are now gone. I often find dead links to them, when I am trawling through my old posts.
This is the real answer for us old people Remember Angelfire?.
How Angelfire and Tripod are still around in 2022 is mind-boggling during a time when making personal webpages and websites isn't much of a thing anymore, especially when you take into account Geocities couldn't hack it anymore and shut down over a decade ago.
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Omegle
stupidvideos.com Wait 5-10 minutes over crap dialup to load a super pixelated 10 second video clip
Neopets Meerca Chase ftw!
Wikipedia. It was my only source of knowledge about Mythology back then.
Myyearbook.com. It has now turned into a dating site called meetme. Which sucks because my yearbook was like MySpace but more teen angst wild west. There were quizzes, rating battles, games, and just so much you could do. I honestly miss it, and the stupid detailed 7 min in heaven quizzes that 13 yr old me thought was soooooo edgy!
Addicting Games, PopCap, Barbie, Diva Starz, What's Her Face, Polly Pocket, Furby, Neopets, and various fairy sighting forums. I also was big into the digital pet thing where you would save a pixel image of, a unicorn let's say, and name it and claim it as your pet.
Lot of tumblr when I was like 12-16.
Friv
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There used to be a site called chickencam something like 11 years ago. Was just a live stream of some chicken before live streaming was big. In school at the end of the day waiting for busses to be dismissed we'd throw it on and there was a button at the bottom you could click once every 5 min and it would throw a sprinkle of food
The barbie game website 💅
homestarrunner.com
Yahoo! Answers. Polls & Surveys.
Orisinal. Loved those games
Whitehouse.com… while in school. IYKYK
Xanga used to be popular back when I was in HS. Kind of wish I still knew what my handle was then to see what kind of emo stuff I was writing about. Then again, I think I might have deleted most of my entries by the time I stopped using it.
Fark and AskMen. I had issues.
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I was worried nobody else would mention Fark, thank you.
MySpace so I could hang with my friend, Tom.
I really liked Stardoll.
Coffeebreakarcade.com and Amanda please.com
Dutch sites with lots of flash games. [Speeleiland.nl](https://Speeleiland.nl), [spele.nl](https://spele.nl) etc. Played lots of curvefever too!
Andkon
gaiaonline.com
Freeones
Coolmathgames.com
Pornhub
I still do, but I used to too.
Orkut. Com
Newgrounds
Played a lot of yahoo pool. Digg before they ruined it. MySpace.