Prior to the internet condensing into just 5 or so websites, what do you remember fondling about being online?

I remember winning a raffle contest on the old Terraria forums and getting to pick my own title (instead of just New Member, Member, Well-Known Member). Of course, since I was like 13, I picked a random collection of letters that only I knew was an acronym of my signature on said forums.

  • Null@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Fondest memories are of using mIRC late in the night while listening to WinAmp.

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s technically still Web2 you’re talking about, but I remember back in the day I would sometimes go to cracked flash game sites to play flash games with cheats (I was like 8)

    The police still haven’t caught me

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      1 year ago

      My memory probably is more of early Web 2; I was born in the late 90s, so I suppose I missed the really wild west days.

      Flash games were great though; it seemed like every company that even slightly catered to people under 30 had a website with some game on it.

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        Yeah, some of them were baller and now lost to time. Like Nickelodeon had an Avatar: The Last Airbender 3D penguin sledding game, man I would love to be able to play that again