Google, Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Pornhub, Twitch, Instagram, Amazon, Wikipedia, Spotify

I will never forget the golden sun fansite I used to visit religiously back in the early 2000s

Man, the comment/reveiw section on newgrounds is depressing to read these days.

Matrix and IPFS too.

I want the old internet back

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I forgot newgrounds had an actual quality filter built in to the site where the community would vote whether an animation or game was worth keeping on the site
>tfw you used to do your duty and watch/rate all the new submissions to the portal
>always left constructive feedback, even if the animation was shit and it wouldn't make it through
>browsed through all the music made by people with pirated copies of Fruity Loops, some of it was actually really good

sticking to new usually nets something interesting

I'd like to see more info on what the 35 all are

yup.
Now it's all ass licking, barely sentient kiddy posts that I'm always surprised to see are from "people" who are both native English speakers and above the age of 8.

i only use youtube in that list op
maybe you're retarded

i feel bad for you op that this is all you think the internet is
maybe you're just memeing for you's but I have lots of little corners on the net I love

>Using hacker News

Please go back you fucking colossal faggot. I'm sure you will enjoy squinting your eyes to read censored unpopular opinions.

Now that hacker News faggots are on Jow Forums i need to go somewhere else. Fucking I m seething rn I would actually punch you in your cunt face if I could

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14 years ago, people made fun websites showcasing flash animations and games. Dedicated forums popped up all over and most of the shitposting was limited to a few sites.

Today every shitty millennial has some fuckin vegan cocksuck blog on their latest "adventure" 5 steps out of their house to the teen clinic to get a shitty Tibetan inspired tattoo that gives them the key to opening their pineal gland.

Its not a matter of "browsing" anymore so much as it is sifting through shit.

lol I'm not that guy but you're delusional
what would ever make you think there wasn't day one overlap between Jow Forums and hn

The internet is definitely not what it used to be but you/we shouldn't get sad over that. It's part of change.

What the hell are you talking about

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You cant explore without the fear of malware and etc

I'm 30 but you're not thinking hard enough if you believe this
the communities around stuff like Gmod and Minecraft are analogous to flash

It helps not being an American.

The list of sites I amd others around me viait is quite different. Although everyone uses Google, Youtube and Wikipedia.

*and
*visit

Shut up nigger

How the fuck does that much traffic go to MS? What is there to do on their site apart from downloading patches for its botnet OS?

this image doesn't mean shit
user growth on the internet wouldn't have been so dramatic without the services those big companies offer
it's not that there's fewer unique websites it's that new internet users are only here for shit like Facebook and Instagram

no they aren't, retard

oh i see you're just some snowflake nostalgiafag got it

those websites are no longer as culturally influential as they once were.

in 1998 if 200 people looked at your page, that was a good result.
in 2018 if 200 people look at your page, that's background noise, you could get 20,000 by just posting your images to reddit instead.

The internet as we know it died when people stopped using digg

what sites did you visit in the 2000s?

Web content has consolidated into a few monopolies like Reddit, Jow Forums, YouTube, etc.

A natural side-effect of time.

stupidvideos.com
miniclip.com

>HackerNews itself was pretty neat for a while but now it’s full of growth hackers
Dubs of truth

Where do I find the cool software shit instead of turbo nerd MBAs bullshitting on Medium?

The economic problems caused people to work more than create content. The lack of a proper education system in USA caused newer generations to be more interested in consuming than creating.

lobste.rs/?

They host a TON of infrastructure for both private companies and the US Government.

>lobste.rs/
Feels like HN but with a different mod team. Content still reads the same too.

Instagram is where you go for softcore bimbo selfies. Twitch is where you go for softcore bimbo live streams.

>Are the focused and tight-knit communities which defined the early 2000's almost entirely gone?
It's called Reddit. Go there and circlejerk over whatever niche subject your heart desires.

Netflix has more traffic than all of those

Tor also puts you on an extremist list where you will be watched very carefully by the feds. They won't know exactly what you've been doing with Tor, but as soon as something's up, you'll be first in the suspect line.

i basically just use Jow Forums, youtube, and a handful of torrent sites these days
i find other sites when i'm looking for something besides what can be found on those

Not really

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This but unironically
>@pam.santanaa

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>Jow Forums not in top50
fake

the problem is that anything interesting worth doing costs too much in infrastructure to be viable for hobbyists. any sort of community based around image/video/game/music sharing is going to require a lot of space and bandwidth once you have a decent amount of users. also, ad revenue is always going to be a shit source of income and probably gets worse as users increase.

that was the whole point of OP, I think. I remember spending years just thrawling and posting on shitty forums that were probably hosted on 1 server. It's not until you start meddling with media that you need anything more than 1 server