Defunct websites from yesteryear that you miss

[Savannah_xx]

Omg I still miss MSN messenger, wish they’d never got rid of it

MSN messenger was the shit. After school, that's what I'd be on

 

[BettyCrockerr]

Napster/Limewire/Bearshare

MSN messenger

MySoace

the original ASOS (As Seen On Screen)

Frank Is Frank (really good clothes site where you could buy Paul Frank & Motel clothes)

Truffle Shuffle (for all the cool slogan T-shirt’s!)

Teen Chat (seemed so innocent at the time but wow, what were we all thinking?!!)

 

[bubbadabut]

what was thta weird game that was on encarta? I remember playing it while pretending to study in the computer room so we didnt have to go outside in break.
anyone else use the MTV 2chat sites? I used lots of really dodgy chat forums and looking back SO many of the people were clearly adults pretending to be teenagers

Yes I used the MTV chat sites and I also found a good friend through the pen pal section on the MTV music teletext pages. Also C4 had one on their teletext music section "Planet Sound", I think it was called "Zine" and people left their email address and what bands they were into. It does seem so dodgy now

 

[Sardine]

Bebo - send me luv

MSN - the notification noise is still engrained in my head

Limewire - I loved destroying the houses computer

MySpace - AHH I was so jealous of the American scene kids

Does anyone remember tinychat? It was like a webcam chat room where they had a chat board and then multiple people on camera up above the chat. I remember having so many arguments with Americans on there.

I remember tiny chat. One time me and my friend trolled this big fat pedalo by getting him to take off his top and jiggle his moobs. We promised to kiss if he did that. Well we didn't

Also was jealous of the American scene kids. If you ever read on lolcow, Kiki kannibal had a whole drama I didn't know about. It's kind of sad

 

[BettyCrockerr]

Not sure it really counts but I miss bamboozle on teletext every day

Oh my good yes!!!!!!!!!

 

[usefullyuseless]

Not really a site but did anyone else here use ICQ?

 

[thegirlscout]

Face party, is that still going? Vampirefreaks as well.
Hollyoaks used to have a forum part with message boards. I got told off for mentioning Trey from the OC got shot to ‘Hide and Seek’ by Imogen Heap. I was so upset I created a new account as I didn’t want people to keep being angry at me
Neighbours (when I watched it) had an Australian website which told you what was coming up in the next week and had pictures. As someone who can’t help herself when it comes to spoilers, I was all over that!

 

[Betty-xoxox]

Does anyone remember smarterchild on msn messenger!? Was a bot. God I remember trying to outsmart it and be sassy towards it

 

[emm]

MSN messenger was the shit. After school, that's what I'd be on

literally from the moment i stepped in the door until the moment I went to bed, with a brief break for dinner remember that obviously fake rumour that if you typed "bomb" they would start moniroting your conversation so everyone just did it all the time

 

[Be More Pacific]

Not sure it really counts but I miss bamboozle on teletext every day

Same. It counts

 

[AnderbeauJohnson]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned creating geocities websites yet! And Habbo Hotel.


If anyone hasn't played around on it this website is great fun - put in any website address and just watch the nostalgia roll in

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

Time has not been kind to that screen size

 

[twinkleunicorn]

AOL message boards!! Crikey those were the days

 

[HowlOwl]

The Freeserve chat rooms! (where I met my husband). Also Napster and MSN Messenger. AOL was very popular too, and Yahoo!

I was on Claranet for internet access which showed you a little table of your meagre time allowance per day and the quite high cost at the time, plus the phone line was tied up then.

 

[fluffyglitterbug]

Lycos search engine in the pre-Google days.

ASOS back when it was As Seen On Screen and sold copies of stuff Paris Hilton had worn.

Oh wow, I'd forgotten about Lycos!

 

[Elliebell2]

yes I think I definitely managed to infect our family computer downloading stuff off there.. and bit torrent. I don’t know if that’s still going

Haha oh god we must have had all sorts of viruses, just glad they weren't as bad then as can be now. At least managed to watch all new films and get all cds I wanted haha

 

[Pikaboo]

Girl Land, I wish I could speak to some of the people I just to speak to on there!

 

[watermelon sugar]

Literally just posted about Stardoll - definitely still about, glad its not just me who remembers it

I used to spend hours on it

 

[TheScarletgirl]

Piczo -would love to remember all the memories
Myspace -same reasons
Channel 4 forums - always enjoyed them sad they don't run them anymore.

 

[Prinfluencer]

Holy Moly C"nts corner. If people think tattle is bad they should of read some of the entries on there

 

[Lanie]

I cant remember the name of the site but the one that salad fingers videos and devvo.

Devvo was great all the stereotype chav stuff.