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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On

The Internet is a fascinating and mind-boggling creation that is becoming an integral part of our daily lives. But it wasn’t always this way.

Back in the day, the Internet was more like a novelty filled with odd and funny websites that nowadays either barely function or no longer exist. This means that there's a whole generation of internet users that missed out on this remarkable era. So, today let's take a trip down memory lane to see what websites older netizens think youngsters never got to experience.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Youtube pre-ads. A magical time.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On When people did stuff for fun and because it was cool, not to make money. Basically, when the internet felt like it was mostly people, not mostly companies.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Forums in general were great community spaces that you just don’t get on Reddit or Facebook groups.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On All the old Macromedia Shockwave / Flash sites before Adobe bought Flash and it became the internet’s favorite malware vector.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Icanhazcheezburger.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Yahoo answers

"Im 13 yrs old . Am I pregunt? " .

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Limewire virus initiation.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On The prime of MySpace.com.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On YTMND

Flash games

How easy it truly was back in the day to download music/tv/movies through Napster or Kazaa lite.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Hamster Dance.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Stumbleupon.

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Just, sort of, the concept of websites. Yes we obviously have them today, but everything is just extremely condensed in terms of traffic. Everyone's on Google, Amazon, and reddit. It used to be that you actually had fun "surfing" the web (yeah I just now at this instant realized this isn't really a term anymore), finding nifty different sites, telling your friends of your findings and adventures, etc.
Not too early web but stumbleupon was big for that.

I think this condensation started with Facebook. A friend and I had a realization at one point that we didn't really use "websites" anymore, but that even "websites" for companies or ideas or whatnot were just Facebook pages. Since then Facebook is now not as popular, but the point remains. .

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On The separation of Google and Froogle. If I wanted to search for things and info, use Google. If I wanted to search for products to buy, use Froogle. Now the top hits on Google are all just things for sale.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On EbaumsWorld, AlbinoBlacksheep, Newgrounds, Homestar Runner, and Xanga were where I spent a good chunk of my early teens.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On The original addictinggames dot com.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Neopets and Homestar Runner! those were such a vibe back in the day.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Not so much a specific site, but the fact that the early internet (talking 1990s here) was a “high trust society”. The only people online were university students and relatively well off people who were genuinely interested in this new technology. So you could meet people on a random IRC channel or telnet talker or whatever and within days or hours you may have swapped real life phone numbers and addresses with them so you could send each other cool stuff in the mail. I got so many cool packages from various overseas countries back in the day and made genuine friendships online in a way that you just couldn’t do today. It wasn’t filled with scammers and the like. You could safely give your actual street address to someone you’d only talked to for a week (especially if they were on a different continent, like what are they gonna do?)

Incidentally I met my wife this way. We were online friends for a while, living on opposite sides of the planet. We sent each other presents in the mail etc. Eventually in the late 90s decided to pay the thousands of dollars to fly to meet in person and the rest is history.

Back then, relationships that started online were super rare, but now I think the majority do, thanks to dating sites and the like.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Home star runner.

It's still up and running, nothing is stopping kids now a days from going and looking at it but I've never met anyone born in 2000 or after who has ever even heard of it.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Googling "French military victories" and then hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Digg back when Digg was relevant. It was my homepage for YEARS and how I discovered new stuff across the internet before Reddit came along.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On GaiaOnline, even though it still exists today.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Habbo hotel.

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23 Notable Websites From The Dawn Of The Internet That Young People Surely Missed Out On Zombo com.

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Denis Krotovas

I am a Visual Editor at Bored Panda. While studying at Vilnius Tech University, I learned how to use Photoshop and decided to continue mastering it at Bored Panda. I am interested in learning UI/UX design and creating unique designs for apps, games and websites. On my spare time, I enjoy playing video and board games, watching TV shows and movies and reading funny posts on the internet.

I am a Visual Editor at Bored Panda. While studying at Vilnius Tech University, I learned how to use Photoshop and decided to continue mastering it at Bored Panda. I am interested in learning UI/UX design and creating unique designs for apps, games and websites. On my spare time, I enjoy playing video and board games, watching TV shows and movies and reading funny posts on the internet.

Ugnė Bulotaitė

I am a writer at Bored Panda. I have loved creating and writing down stories about people and things since I was little and I think this passion led me to get degrees in sociology, communication, and journalism. These degrees opened various paths for me, and I got a chance to be a volunteer in the human rights field, and also try myself out in social research and journalism areas. Besides writing, my passions include pop culture: music, movies, TV shows; literature, and board games. In fact, I have been dubbed a board games devotee by some people in my life.

I am a writer at Bored Panda. I have loved creating and writing down stories about people and things since I was little and I think this passion led me to get degrees in sociology, communication, and journalism. These degrees opened various paths for me, and I got a chance to be a volunteer in the human rights field, and also try myself out in social research and journalism areas. Besides writing, my passions include pop culture: music, movies, TV shows; literature, and board games. In fact, I have been dubbed a board games devotee by some people in my life.

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