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Let's take a trip back to the year 2000, 25 long internet years ago. A year in which Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence — all of this while the dot-com bubble slowly deflates and Napster dominates headlines. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/ #InternetHistory
(special thanks to @GroupNebula563 & @Steve for suggesting Homestar Runner, the perfect Flash website suggestion for that year!)
@ricmac @Steve I would like to remind everyone here that https://homestarrunner.com is still very much up, with new toons and working flash emulation! and believe me, the toon quality has not decreased at all! give ‘em a watch!
@ricmac @GroupNebula563 @Steve An excellent read! There's good times to be had here.
I'm aware that you can't fit everything in the article but I think the one thing missing is the Joe cartoon website, though I believe that was slightly before 2000. But nonetheless remained popular after the turn of the century.
@ricmac @GroupNebula563 @Steve
> By the end of 2000, the web had settled into a strange dual state: the financial euphoria of the dot-com boom was gone, yet the culture of the web had never felt more alive.
Thanks for this sentence. 2000-2002 were the heydays for my website (https://www.netribution.co.uk/features/) and I've such glowing memories of that time online I'm often not sure if I'm just suffering nostalgiaitis.
@ricmac @GroupNebula563 @Steve you mean when Marc Andreessen was still a nice guy?
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