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I won a copy of Saturn Bomberman from an official contest on Sega's homepage ages ago. Had I not fallen for the trick question, I would have gotten a commemorative leather jacket to go with it. Fun times. Always used to download whatever game demos they had up there. I remember it taking an eternity to nab a 4MB file over 14.4k.

I kinda wish I saved the files for my old Geocities sites just for the heck of it. I wrote some pretty thorough N64 guides back in the day with maps and everything that were at least somewhat popular for the day.

I had my own EZBoard for a circle of friends that I met through the internet. Did some fairly heavy customization on the layout that tied it together with all of our personal websites. It was good enough to catch the eye of a few people who asked me if I could do some web design work for them... the only one of which I remember being a foot fetish website.

Anyone remember the CG Shrines? Pretty sure that was my first exposure to that sort of artwork.

Had a friend who had WebTV for a while. Remember that thing?
 
I have to say, I think I kind of preferred it when white text on black background was more common than the inverse. Black on white is like staring into a lightbulb all the time.
 
Kazaa - faces of death
Joe Cartoon
Maddox (mostly the crappy kids artwork article)
Real Player (I didn't have internet on my computer so I actually bought it at CompUSA to play DBZ videos)
www.Sataguini.com (woah it's still active)
YTMND - like everyone else who loved it and then forgot about it one day (I think the view count hacking soured people)
Webcrawler
Ebaums world - stealing content first
Google video
quicksilver screen
N64.com
World is Round
Xanga/Geocities
 
I remember using Altavista A LOT. I also remember Audiogalaxy (NEVR 4GET!) and Kazaa with its endless malware and BearShare. Never used Napster, though - didn't have internet back then.

I remember hating RealPlayer (a hatred that will endure even when I'm gone) but mostly using it or WMP for videos. MusicMatch Jukebox was my preferred player for a while, but then I started using Winamp.

Also, for latin american-GAF: I used LATINCHAT when I was bored. It was hilarious and a bit sad... me and my friends, 10 year old kids, using LatinChat and some of its risqué rooms for fun... we could've been easy prey for pedos. Thankfully none of that happened.
 
I remember all porn clips on Kazaa were 30 seconds with no sound at 360x240. And we had no complaints
 
Gentlemen...we can go back. It was a purer age. But we would have to destroy this timeline to do it. Who's with me?

Lionel Mandrake said:
I guess my NeoPet is probably dead.
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Wrong. Buttface was evolved, by force, into a deviant neo-fur and is now being exploited on some Rule34 furry porn site they only talk about in Community. You're probably the only good memory Buttface has left.
 
I saw a woman try to import a clip in RealVideo format into iMovie yesterday.

Related: someone please inform people in China that RealPlayer and associated formats are not still a thing...
 
Music Match Jukebox
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And then before Wikipedia, between playing hours of Sim City 2000, I would just basically get lost in the "encarta hole". I loved it.
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I remember the flash video that made a song out of the Steve Carell part of Bruce Almighty, had his voice, but high pitched, and it was totally messed up.
 
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