Old websites you remember

[50degreesnorth]

Two main ones for me were:
HotelChat - decent enough early chatroom where every 'hotel room' was for a different discussion.
Liv4Now - a 'lifestyle' website that had some forums; was good for a couple of years before the owner decided to become a massive bellend and start to push the core userbase out.

L’Hotel Chat has a seldomly used FB group where I managed to catch up with some of my old Babble crew.

 

[orlyb1310]

I was obsessed with this barbie virtual world - I still have the mp3 players that gave you vip access to different rooms and better clothes I remember someone wrote about my avatar being stylish on their forum and I was buzzing

 

[Amyx1518]

I used to go on engrish (hopefully not offensive!) and I think it was I can haz cheeseburger or something like that. Failbook was a good one too!

I loved that game with Nev from smile on cbbc website! And throwing it way waaay back, I used to go on the site called teen open diary when I was in year 8 or 9 i think (2005-6) and I pretended to be this teen mum from Australia

 

[mochibean]

Did anyone else ever get sent that game where you had to navigate a maze and the dot got smaller and smaller so you were right up close to the screen and then the exorcist girl popped up screaming?

A lad I proper fancied in high school sent me a link on MSN so I did it, jumped so much I went backwards in the dining room chair and smacked the back of my head off the door frame Amazingly I was fine but my mum was convinced I'd have concussion and wouldn't let me sleep for ages. She wasn't impressed with the lad

Omg

Our Science teacher put it on one time on the big monitor and pranked one of the boys in class. Needless to say, he absolutely shit himself!

 

[SarcasticEllis]

Rotten.com. The gory pics would take ages to slowly load

Yes! And back then it felt like the pictures were genuine as photoshop wasnt as sophisticated. The helicopter decapitations

I also remember a website called pickleparty where you could send e-cards to people, but they were really offensive

 

[MaryX82]

Oh wow yes I remember doing that at school in IT "WUU2 at lunch? Wanna meet outside da shop? Txt bk "

Txt U l8r

 

[chunkylover53]

I remember Badger, and also 'look at my horse, my horse is amazing, give it a lick, it tastes just like raisins'. Funniest thing ever when you're 12.

omg yes! and "narwhals narwhals swimming in the ocean"

 

[Sardine]

I was once Top Rated Girl on Vampire Freaks

it lasted about 20mins but it was the best time of my life haha

My scene queen idol?

 

[DanaScully]

Omg. I’ve had a twat of a week but that’s just cheered me up. I’m howling ‘I shop at netto with me ma’ thank you

sorry to derail for any non scousers!

My pleasure, it cheered me up as well!

 

[under the ivy]

I was a huge Girls Aloud fan back in the day and was always on the Girls Aloud Forum! Then it just disappeared?!

I used to always be on Habbo Hotel

 

[insilverandgold]

Anyone remember crystal rainforest in primary school!??

Oh my god! You would not believe how many hours I spent trying to figure out the name of that only a month or so ago! THANK YOU! I have such vivid memories of playing it in the ‘IT suite’ aka school kitchen complete with some computers that was also haunted

ETA: Stardoll and Neopets were the best. I still play Neopets. Never lost my skill at Ice Cream Machine or Hasee Bounce

 

[Lovelife899]

Habbo Hotel
Neopets
Eastenders where you could play games

 

[supernintendochalmers]

Newgrounds.com, where you could play games and watch animations. Some YouTubers became well known on there, such as Egoraptor from Game Grumps. I remember playing an adult point-and-click game parodying Saved By the Bell called "Saved By Your Balls" (just checked and its still up there lol).

 

[wiganuser]

I remember me and my mates used to go on some weird fucking chatrooms...I think some were American ones I can't remember now
Actual weirdo's on there, we used to wind the fuck out of them. I bet half of them were serial killers or massive pweirdo's.

All this on a grainy beige Compaq computer with the first type of dial up internet

 

[Ceebee]

Did anyone ever use EmoFwendz? (I think that was how it was spelled). I used it from like 2009-2012. I loved that site so much and met so many people. Some were weird and some I still talk to to this day!

 

[Kthxbye]

Girland...spent hours on there!
LiveJournal...I found my old LiveJournal recently; good grief, the cringe was real

I remember you could change the little icon next to your emotions, and mine was a little dancing star that changed colour!
I used to love the thriftstoreuk community on there, id check it out every day! Even made friends who I am still in contact with now through that LJ community!

 

[HBF1991]

Imeem
I used to use this to stream certain songs before the days of Spotify

HeathersAnimations
This was a great site to get gifs and animations for PowerPoints in school

This Is Big Brother
I was a member for a while but didn't post that often

Veoh
This was a competitor to youtube but never really got as big, I used to use it as YT was blocked in school

Diabolik.TV
Used this quite a lot back in the day to discuss DS Forums

Paperdoll Heaven, Howrse, Itsmy, Neopets, AlbinoBlacksheep, WeeblsStuff, Tagged.com etc

 

[Kthxbye]

Livejournal! Back in the day, LJ was amazing.

 

[Matricks]

TVCream, was one of the first sites I visited when I had access to dial-up internet back in the late 90s. It focused mainly on British TV shows from my childhood (70s and 80s).

It's still up and running today, and I revisit from time to time just for the nostalgia

 

[rlouisep9]

So many already mentioned like Neopets, any of the doll websites, Eastenders dress up etc

Did anyone also go on iSketch? It was like online pictionary