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This is the only website that I ever truly stumbled upon and kept using. A total relic of the forum era. Anonymous ask and answer, forum, some extremely homemade but fun games, and collaborative pixel art. I have no clue at all how many people use this site, it could be 25 or 3,000. It still feels like a place to go online, and it was really important to me as a forum without the stakes of permanence and publicity that make the modern social internet feel so hostile.
Jan 26, 2024
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Omg the nostalgia of this prompt 😭
• Excite
• Americangirl.com (lol)
• Neopets
• Fanfiction.net (still there ✌🏻)
• Livejournal, Xanga, MySpace
• Yahoo! instant messenger
• Teenspot (my go-to talk to strangers who probably weren’t teenagers site 😬)
• Various proboards for all the fandoms I followed
Apr 11, 2024
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used to spend hours digging for set rips, fan theories, and remakes. met some URL friends that later became IRL friends, got signed to a record label made up of other fans where i released some god awful dubstep, still keep up with some folks on socials that i met on there. ended up shutting down like 8 or so years ago and everyone just went to r/Skrillex on reddit which is how i got on reddit. very influential place for my online experience and this site def brings me back to the energy that site had, just a bunch of nerds with niche interests who just wanna talk about it with other nerds
EDIT: looks like they got a bunch of captures of it on wayback machine, big nostalgia trip looking at these
Apr 9, 2024
We miss chronological feeds. We miss forming community through internet friends and groupchats. We miss being fans and spending our lives obsessing over our faves. In an attempt to bring these things back to the surface, we're spending more time on open forums and less time with algorithms. So...... neocities blogs (brittany's here & sameera's here) and discord and perfectly imperfect. And more than anything, we're trying to spend time reminiscing about these days of early spirit and community. Maybe if we talk about it enough, it'll work its way back into existence. There's a reason why everyone misses it so much.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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so fucking accurate 10/10. like…correct
Jan 31, 2024
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Videos. Journals. Planners. Calendars. Playlists. Spreadsheets. Letters to open in the future.
Keeping track of the present (in a way that is low stakes and fun) keeps me from dwelling on the past or feeling upset about changing. It will be there for me if and when I want to return to it! And I get to dip into the things I have thought and felt and loved in the past and maybe they become part of my life again or they don't!
I also love to experiment with form in the ways that I record myself. Journals are a classic, but doing something like journaling in a planner with limited space or on a calendar means you have to pick just one memory from each day. Or making playlists / watchlists / reading lists of what's important to you at a time. Embarking upon fun little challenges of discovery (places, songs, books, movies, foods) and keeping track of what you learn in an organized (or disorganized) way! Video journals or little vlogs just for yourself! Scrapbooking!
Fun in the moment to create and fun in the future to rediscover.
Jan 26, 2024
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it’s a shit game so if you’re gonna play it at least go for a little “nice to come home” when you land on one of your own properties
Feb 14, 2024