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The internet seems to be in a period of reevaluation (for me, at least). I know all of these items mentioned in the subject heading still exist and plenty of other things pop up every day with good intentions, but I feel like I have no reason to bookmark anything anymore. It is all about Google and whatever is on my mind at that exact moment and who knows if these things are still there a week later because I've completely forgotten about them (and rightly so, most websites of entertainment value totally suck as far as layouts go).

Probably things are exactly the same or better than they always were, but it seems like Strongbad and Memepool are rarely updated anymore and the quality of updates blows, bloggers should mostly die and B3ta users are so far up their own asses sometimes I have no idea what they're on about.

Does anyone else feel like the internet has been a bit quiet lately? It's like there's a lot of cool stuff on the super-secret super-ephemeral tip, but it dries up and drifts away rather quickly.

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear you. On my menubar lately:

ILE, 3 specific threads, a bulletin board for a class I'm DAing, and gmail.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH! Of all things, GMAIL is "the shit" right now (for me). A fuckin' email program!

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

K, I just visited B3ta for the heck of it and it's pretty good right now:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/jamesthecatforever/NOGOATSE.gif

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/benders.gif

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

All of these things sucked from the very first day.

my Safari links bar: ILX, My Ebay, Ebay Search, (Yahoo) NBA Fantasy, apug.org

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

really? i quite liked them at one time.

― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

if you check Strongbad once a month there's usually at least one new thing that's worth it, but that's about it. as well, the entire set of things they've updated probably won't last more than 10 minutes to watch. any of these worth abandoning completely? no.

― lemin (lemin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sites I checked daily in 2000: Hotmail, Salon, Pitchfork, Metafilter

Sites I check daily in 2005: Gmail, ILX, Pitchfork, Stylus, Slate

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 27 February 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I started building websites when Mosiac was the shit. Anything after that pales to me.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Sunday, 27 February 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I read Rinkworks way back when, and I still do. Thats about it.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 27 February 2005 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember Seanbaby? Hoo jeez.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

never heard of strongbad. :-(

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Sunday, 27 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's one of those hipster "humor" sites.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

RIYL: Adult Swim

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.homestarrunner.com/

some ridiculously funny flash cartoons hidden between around 10 times as much ridiculously mediocre and sometimes stupid flash cartoons

― lemin (lemin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Wikipedia rocks. These days, I search it directly almost as often as using google.

Wikipedia had their Hunter S. Thompson article updated at least 10 mins before it hit AP, as far as I can tell. And their news/info on the tsunami was way more detailed and better organized than anywhere else. Its kinda scary. I wonder how long it can last?

― mikef-who-mostly-lurks (mfleming), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to sound 'indie', but I like the way how you can go for as long as you like without even looking at a commercial website now, which is totally unlike how it was in 2001-ish.

Just about the only websites I use nowadays that are run by huge companies are nme.com - nggh - google, blogspot sites and eBay.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wikipedia is great. I used to hate it when I worked as a fact-checker because its pages would turn up so often and I couldn't use them (since they weren't considered "legitimate"). But I especially love all the pages on topics that would never be touched by more authoritative encyclopedia sites, mostly pop culture stuff I guess. Like there's a whole comprehensive article on Crystal Pepsi!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 27 February 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Friendster is the fun and safe way to organize your social life"

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Sunday, 27 February 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Still love Homestar Runner. Friendster and MySpace can take a flying leap.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Wikipedia really helped me out recently, when I finished up The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and I needed to know what a "maxixe" was. Though they were unable to figure out what a "Bilphist" was (something I found the answer to through Google). Wikipedia has also served well with assisting me with concepts I couldn't get in the classroom -- it's sorta a surrogate tutor!

Anyway, I have no idea what on Earth I did before Google. I used to use Excite a lot, but even then I was highly frustrated by it. I did think Yahoo! was pretty nice, but rather slow on the updating uptake. Google is SO much better than that, even with the indexed searches. As for e-mail... I used to rely on Hushmail, and Yahoo! Mail before that, but now Gmail is my main thing and I love it to bits.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

just out curiosity, what's the problem w/ myspace and friendster? i find the bulletin board function essential.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the problem is you havent explained yourself. you find the BB essential, but essential for what? i cant think what on earth a bulletin board would be essential for, and that goes for the whole of such sites...they don't really do anything. diverting, maybe, for 30 mins, but essential? i am interested to know what you mean by that

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i find out about all kinds of things going on that i wouldn't have otherwise heard about it-- parties, club nights, gigs, birthdays, news from friends i don't see often, etc...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

MySpace and Friendster both creep me the fuck out with their cliqueishness and insularity.

Maybe I'm just too old, but the whole "I'm a hipster twentysomething and these are my 78 temporary-best-friends-for-life for whom I've written self-consciously wacky testimonials, even though I've only met three of them in the flesh - please find me interesting!!!" schtick ain't doin' shit for me. Ugh.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

well, there's that approach. but then of course there are others.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

memepool lives again

http://memepool.com/

― ledge, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:34 (thirteen years ago)

Ah, the old days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WTbGupxbk

― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:42 (thirteen years ago)

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