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I didn't see this topic already, and it's one I've been thinking of so I thought I'd ask. What old sites that are now offline do you remember fondly? If they're on Archive.org, can you provide a link? Here are a few of mine to get the ball rolling. ForceAcademy.com ( https://web.archive.org/web/19991012180951/http://forceacademy.com/) - A Star Wars fan site that took the Force semi-seriously, mixing it with new age philosophy and spiritualism to create a community of "Jedi". Edit: I just remembered that I was actually in charge of the fan fiction section for a while.PlanetNamek.com ( https://web.archive.org/web/20020121172634/http://planetnamek.com/) - The first DBZ fan site I ever found. It had a huge encyclopedia of characters, episodes and everything else. I read about characters and plotlines that I wouldn't see on TV until years later when Funimation got around to dubbing the episodes. AfterEarth.com - Not the Will Smith movie, but Titan A.E. This was a promotional site but also an online game. I don't remember all the details, but you'd basically create or join a ship and there was some ranking based on largest crew or something. The site is on Archive.org, but requires Flash and Shockwave so may as well not be. TBSSuperStation.com/mortalkombat ( https://web.archive.org/web/20001109180300/http://tbssuperstation.com/mortalkombat/) - This site was to promote the network TV premiere of the first Mortal Kombat movie. Most of the archived site looks broken, but you can still sorta access Cage's Challenge which was a Mad Lib-style game that I spent too much time playing as a kid. |
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« Reply #4 on: a Summer night » |
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I learned everything I know about web design from WebTek Rocks.
The Internet Archive wasn't too kind to it when it saved it. Perhaps it was and I'd simply forgotten how tacky it was 
When I have a little time I like poking around really old websites. One way of finding them is to type a word, any word, into a search engine, especially Google, and follow it with the word webring. There's loads of old sites still around from places ike Lycos Tripod and Angelfire.
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The Angel Harris Collection was a strange but interesting site that disappeared around 2005. The Internet Archive only managed to save a very small portion of the site.
The site was to "celebrate the material evidence that the combination of our consciousness and interaction with other individuals generates." and "to display the objects, ideas and tastes that make us the individuals we are - that make us real."
They used a very unusual method of getting people to write to them. They would leave business cards about the site in books, public places and on public transport. That meant they had quite an eclectic collection of images, stories, and poetry. A few of us were invited to write something for them but I couldn't think of much to say. Oddly enough what I wrote in 2001 was one of the few whole pages to get saved.
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Bonsai Kitten (Internet Archive) had me absolutely incensed when I first found it. I was half-way through writing a nasty email to them when I realized what it actually was.
The site was infamous back in the day and generated tons of hate mail and petitions to get it taken offline. |
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I used to spend so much time on PBSKids as a child, and while the website is still there a lot of the shows that used to run as web episodes for free online are no longer availible on the websites because they're on streaming services, and a lot of the games I used to play were taken down years ago to usher in more popular new series. One of my favorites was Dragonfly TV, which let you play a bunch of biology and engineering games on their site. There was also Between the Lions, Eekoworld, It's My Life, Zoom!, and Maya and Miguel (Which is archived on Scholastic). |
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Pokemon Elite 2000. Like many Pokemon fansites, they had guides, news, and forums. They had a written guide (with screenshots) for performing what is now known as the mew glitch, which I followed back in the day and it worked for me. Otherwise, the appeal of a pokemon fansite is obvious. It had some shockwave games which I played too much, they were very simple. also while i'm talking defunct pkmn sites, if you have a Flash player browser extension like Ruffle check out pikaflash.com Anime Visions was an anime fansite just full of promotional artwork from various animes. This kind of website is very... obsolete. It's very easy to find a bunch of anime art online nowadays, and this collection is scattered. I can't see the appeal any more, but i used too like it. The Turk Alliance is a Final Fantasy 7 fansite named for the antagonist group the Turks. The website's purpose is to debunk game rumours around FF7 on the PSX, and they boast over 100 rumours tested! The "if you are mean to tifa she will dive into sephiroth's sword and save aeris" variety of rumour. Didn't make that one up, btw. But is it true? You have to check The Turk Alliance to see... Its got a links page which contains a lot its contemporaries too, if you like old web final fantasy. |
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