Your Favourite "Dead" Sites

[Thorn]

I'm not sure if it's actually offline or if I've just lost the link forever, but as a kid I spent forever on this barbie website. It hosted SO MANY games relating to barbies and I would spend hours to traversing the site over and over again to play all the minigames. I can't seem to find them anywhere now...

I actually recently saw a post that mentioned this. The domain where the barbie games used to be hosted is still up and running, but Mattel uses it as a storefront and product information site now and doesn't host barbie related games anymore.

[Memory]

Mattel uses it as a storefront and product information site now and doesn't host barbie related games anymore.

This is so sad. Pressing F to pay respects.

It would have been nice if they kept the games even in a small corner of their new site... I miss those so much, and it felt like it was a site made for me as a kid, rather than for adults which was really appreciated even at the time.

[larvapuppy]

Mine would be eLouai... I spent so many hours on that site playing the room maker game and dressing up the candybar dolls. I tried to play the games on the wayback machine but they don't work for me 

[Tiffany]

The Portkey Forums I use to spend so much time there, because Harry/Hermione was (is) my OTP, and there just isn't a community like that anymore. Like there have been replacement but not like the old forums, and the replacements haven't been forums.

[myleszey]

LetsMakeAGame.com Community Game Development. The epitome of 'user generated content' from a bunch of flash games - platformer, puzzle and music games. The domain was parked in 2018, a good long time after the peak of browser flash games, but several years before flash was deprecated altogether. I miss it, but there are better venues for kids to make things on the internet now... right?

It doesn't really count since it still exists but I still think of Pokemon Planet as one of these since the current product is completely different than the silly browser MMO it used to be.

Edit 10/17/2023: Just remembered Root Beer Reviews dot com!

[AY38910]

the website they had use to have a chat platform

Oh, yeah, I've seen similar stuff. I have a friend who is a fan of MBR, and appaarently on https://mbrserver.com there's an IRC chatroom for the fans and whatwver. With a web client included, for mobile/school PC users. It can be accessed by clicking on "IRC" at the bottom of the page, or directly by going to https://mbrserver.com/chat/

Anyways, mine would likely be Geocities. No need to say anything else.