Post ghost town websites that are still up

Post ghost town websites that are still up

I'm feeling like doing some net archaeology

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Other urls found in this thread:

ben-daglish.net/
supremecrafts.enjin.com/
boards.fightingamphibians.org/
195.242.99.71/
objectconnect.com/
scaruffi.com
zombo.com/
4-ch.net/
kotaku.com/the-secret-douglas-adams-rpg-people-have-been-playing-f-1681986562
ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showforum=38
bonsaimechafactory.org/
ntk.net/
blairwitch.com/project/main.html
heavensgate.com/
math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/forum/buzz/ultimatebb.cgi
tapatalk.com/groups/cspsp/index.php
templeos.org/
thesecretofbluewater.com/
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

I find something about these really sad. Especially ones that "shouldn't" still be up. It makes me wonder if its all hosted on some server somewhere that people forgot about, and the hardware is slowly dying.

www.dmoztools.net/
A directory which has a lot of old sites.

the man is dead but the site is still up
ben-daglish.net/

I'm talking specifically about sites for conversations where there's nobody left and you can still see the threads that belonged to the bygone days

just about any invisionfree forum

But especially obscure shit that only you or a few people here can talk about, use this thread as the unique opportunity to give them out

Let's make this thread good

I wonder if the forum that has one person talking to themselves is still up?

supremecrafts.enjin.com/

A couple of years back I went looking for old Delta Force forums I used to post on. It was a game made by Novalogic back in 1998. One of the first massive open world MMOs FPS milsims. One of the first to introduce "bullet drop" and shit over distance. What sites and forums still exist are complete ghost towns.

It's a weird sensation to look back at that now 20 years later. It kind of feels like how my local town centre feels in the last few years as internet shopping has killed off the high street. Once busy shops are struggling to stay open, or they've closed completely years ago and all that remains is faded, weather beaten shop front signage. That's what looking back at those old websites feels to me now. Which is kind of a bizarre feeling to have about places in cyber space.

Fighting Amphibians was a /v/ offshoot that sprung up when Team Fortress 2 was released. The community was composed mostly of obnoxious tripfags with huge egos and were constantly stirring up petty drama. Ownership of the site changed hands several times.

They also maintained several game servers run by various cliques, but the infamous "Jow Forums party van" server was not one of them.

One notoriously obnoxious tripfag named Gurk met a woman on the site. They got married and were divorced within a year or two.

I know all this because I was one of the obnoxious tripfags.

I don't even know who the fuck is still paying the bills for the site but it is still active and apparently some people still hang out in an IRC channel.

boards.fightingamphibians.org/

It's the same thing here. Forums and personal sites are absolutely dead as a concept within the major culture. People can say things like "there's still places if you know where to look" which to me is an admission that they are displaced from the dominant culture. No one would say that vinyl is still alive on the highstreet because "you just need to know where to look."

It's actually quite amazing how something so popular, so dominant, so pervasive, could vanish not just from use but also collective memory so quickly.

the cracky image board is kinda dead
195.242.99.71/

Oldest posts on there go back to 2006, so have fun. If you feel like browsing some BBS to find stuff here is a great way to do that.
telnetbbsguide DOT com

objectconnect.com/

Call me retarded, but I think that people yearn, maybe without even consciously realizing it, a place on the internet that isn't so impersonal. It's mind-blowingly ironic that social media and all that normie shit that's actually tied to your identity is the most impersonal experience the internet has to offer. Yeah, there are people who are fine with that because they're internet tourists who started actually using it because smart phones made it a part of daily life. But there were people who were on the internet before, living, in the social sense, in small communities of people held together by a small network of similar sites. Those people remember what they had and what they've lost.

That's the only explanation I can think of for why people are nostalgicly creeping back to places they used to haunt, looking to rekindle a long dead fire they remember being a part of. Nobody belongs anymore. Even things like Discord have watered down internet chat to McIRC. The internet used to be a place that ran on a parallel line to regular life, but it's become an extension of everyday interactions. I remember what it was like before social media. I'm 26 now. I was a lurker on the Bob and George network, and read a fuckton of Sprite comics. Even tried to make a few myself. We've collectively lost something, but I don't think everyone consciously knows what.

I recently bought a domain. I'm going to use it to do... Something. I don't know yet. Something creative. Something interesting. Whatever goes up, I know it's going to have a small message board system. Doesn't matter if anybody uses it, I want it to be there just in case someone wants to have an impersonally personal conversation.

I love the internet, I hate what it's become for me, and for others.

>the internet used to be a place that ran on a parallel line to real life
so much this, rip the best form of escape

I have nothing to contribute; I just want to say thanks for writing up your thoughts. This will sound somewhat pathetic, but I used to spend a lot of time on a particular TF2 server (orange_x3 map) and felt pretty sad when the community just withered away and the server went offline for one last time.

scaruffi.com

zombo.com/

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Ytmnd is still up. Who remembers that site?

this isn't a ghost town you fucking retard with your shitty tired old meme

Are NPCs going to turn this into another old internet thread when it was specirfically about old sites that are still up with 0 interaction on them?
>le nostalgia!!!!

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HEY! You can still do anything at zombocom. Nothing has changed.

This is a dead community website thread not a nostalgia thread

I'm deleting the OP if you faggotniggers keep derailing

>threatening 4channel
that's the last mistake you'll ever make, kiddo

I don't think that's pathetic at all. We all had those places. Mine was a Minecraft server called 3EC. I greatly miss it. I wish I could recapture the magic of it.

I'm looking into joining a game called Hackmud. It's got an absolutely tiny playerbase. But... It is a fascinating MMO. Maybe that'll have something for me?

stop living in the past, the age of forums is long gone, accept it and make the best of new technologies and the future

rotten.com

He's not dead though
>currently giving lectures in China

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>the day he posted about megaman 9
Surreal as fuck.

what a lucky man

Jow Forums.org

I'm going to post porn and get myself banned and all posts deleted along with the thread if you retards keep missing the point

>getting banned in 2018
Sure thing phoneposter.

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wtf is that?

4-ch.net/

>rotten.com
rotten.com has been gone for about a year or longer now actually

I don't know if you can still access them, but the original Starship Titanic forums were a little nuts, far outliving the game and Douglas himself.

kotaku.com/the-secret-douglas-adams-rpg-people-have-been-playing-f-1681986562

I remember visiting them in the early 2000s.

Hahaha weird, could you imagine how goofy those people must feel for falling into a hole on the internet for years and years and never, ever, ever going anywhere else hahaha weird haha those fucking idiots

Hahaha I totally don't know that feeling hahaha

fuck you mygot reeee

ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showforum=38

myspace

It’s not even functional, what a shame

use wibr

also Jow Forums.org

I remember posting on a pretty popular Morrowind forum back in the day, but I'm not sure if it's alive or dead because I can't find it anywhere. Maybe that says all that needs to be said.

bonsaimechafactory.org/
Cool comics, ended abruptly 15 years ago and the forum is dead.

NTK was cool. Still up but dead
ntk.net/
Wikipedians took a dislike to it and deletionists moved in on the entry.

There's a lot of MUDs with a tiny group still playing.

>tfw too autistic to click on links
>tfw nobody posting images of sites
I feel left out

Give a link shitbeard

I bought that fucking game. I couldn't run it for some reason. Goddammit.

I've taken to comparing the internet as it was and the internet as it is now to two different representations of a double helix. The internet was once a 3D representation, where the two lines move around each other, but never really cross over though they appear to. When you flatten it though it looks like two lines crossing each other constantly.

This also works within the confines of how people say that the internet now is "flat", or lacking that extra dimension.

I was gonna say the same thing. Reminds me of driving through the mojave desert and seeing all those houses that are completely falling apart and wondering about the people that onced lived there.

looks exactly the way it did in 1997 when i first started shitposting at 6 years old

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Holy shit, is this motherfucking Fighunter?
I never though I would see this godforsaken website again! It was my life, dude! You brought back memories I didn't think I had!
Does Pseudolonewolf still make games? Or has he finally decided to weld his basement door shut once and for all, so that no extrovert can violate his delicate boipussy ever again?

Scaruffi is a /mu/ meme. He's known for his very eclectic taste in music and his expansive list of album reviews.

>Forums and personal sites are absolutely dead as a concept within the major culture.
I'm sad to have seen this happen. I ended up building from scratch, a search engine for only those kinds of pages from the web. They are extremely hard to find because most of the web is pure cancer these days.

The early web felt like a comfy village, where you could start from any vantage and find quaint, interesting places. There weren't many commercial sites, so most of the web had hobbyist types of pages, rather than just ad driven or commercial pages.

Today's web feels like a suburbanite commercial strip mall, where no matter which suburb you're in, you always end up finding the exact same, large corporate owned stores. And nothing else. So even though the current web is much larger, it is much harder to find interesting places. It feels bleak, and sterile.

wiby.me is cool, thanks for making it

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Ukthrash.co.uk

this cuck is a massive cuck now

Think of it as replacing the model of a web with a bicycle wheel. You can spend as much time on the rim as you like, but all junctions lead to the center.

go suck a dick

4channel.org

go choke on a frozen turd

Check "taming the mind" it's his latest blog and he had brain surgery I think he won't be able even to make his hugs n love perversion of mardek

Not a ghost town if it didn't have a community on it fucktard

thanks, I will keep building it, its been a fun project
that is a good way to describe it actually

blairwitch.com/project/main.html

heavensgate.com/

I get your point, but in the UK at least vinyl is back on the high street. Big chain music stores that mainly just consist of funko pops and rick and meme shit stock it again now, along with supermarkets.

Eat my ass senpai. Forums, message boards, and image boards are core to the actual internet experience. They will survive anything that happens to the net, save a complete collapse of the infrastructure that supports them. Everything then, we would have lans. There are so many cities in America that have created their own local internets. Shit, some trashheap city in South America runs its own P2P Daisy chain private network.

My point is that the bbs, in all incarnations, will never die.

wingace.net nothing really interesting to see here except train models from the early noughties
i have a list of ghost sites on my desktop, fugg, i'm going to post it in a bit

>third world uses old tech
Yeah, we know.

Speaking of BBS. I kind of wish I was around for the original ASCII BBSs over phone lines.

too soon

Forums before the popularisation of the word “troll” were a great place to be a rascal and a shitposter. I used to shitpost on habbo forums 10+ years ago. I actually found Jow Forums through the Habbo raids in 2006 when I was 13.

Novalogic FTW! Wanna play some Joint Ops 2 later?

This guy's starting a flame war!

I definitely do. Truly a pure time. I'm pretty envious of early computer owners. Yeah, they were terrible experiences in comparison to the stuff we have today, but learning something on a granular level... There's something about it that I find appealing. You could learn C and be working with the big boys. Now, there is so much pretext.

On this note, I've been considering ditching forum software and plugins and just linking/embedding a sub-reddit.

The guy who made Lords of Midnight was an English teacher who never even touched a computer until he was 30.

I think people who get hung up on things like convenience of entertainment end up missing the larger point that these systems represented to people.

LambdaMOO was hot. Guests had to queue to get in and were ejected after 30 minutes back in the heydays. It still exists but is mostly deserted.

gamefaqs.com
The big boards are still used, but almost all the game-specific and hobby-specific boards are dead.

That site died spiritually when the FAQs stopped being text files, and it died totally when game-specific wikis took over.

math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/forum/buzz/ultimatebb.cgi
I bookmark these things when I see them I'll post more later if I see any

Yeah come to think of it, at some point a few years ago Gamefaqs stopped being my go-to when I needed help with a game. Now I just google the quest name and one of the game's wikis or fan sites has the answer complete with pictures.

what forum software is that? looks crisp

The worst part of these forums is that there is always a series of desperate posts asking "does anyone still come here?" which even then are getting further and further into the past.

I don't know if I know what you mean. Are you saying that since it's so easy now to get entertainment and there are a bumper crop of options, people who don't have a nostalgic perspective on old games don't have the capacity in examining why something might be personally significant to another?

But this is kinda what I'm talking about. A 30 year old dude sits down and creates something cool. Today, there's so much pretext. You have to master all these tools and a few languages, then an engine, all that shit.

tapatalk.com/groups/cspsp/index.php

Community forums of an old PSP homebrew game. There's still an occasional "anyone here" post, 6months - a year apart, but the place really must have died 2012, when the sole dev quit the project. What makes the whole thing even sadder, you can check the games website, which features player stats and even a server browser. Login counts only display the past three days - 0 activity. The master server is still online, and a 10 slot server is running.

standard is higher, 30 yo dude might have good ideas but a text only or simple 2d is not gonna cut it in current year

look how good this site is. Damn.
look below to see how much time it took to load and also the space it takes.
completely destroys modern websites is functionality.

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templeos.org/

I think it's because these things are by nature a collaborative effort. If personal sites are going to have a future they have to do something that can't be done better by a major consolidated platform.

I mean that people who say things like "things are better now because GUIs, MP3s, YouTube, high speed internet, etc." are missing the point of what made computers and the creations of that time worth spending any time on at all.

Look at FidoNet. A guy just decides to make a worldwide network piggybacking on the telephone system. Someone would never get away with such a thing today.

The problem with that is that only large corporations can afford to meet those standards.

still me, a bunch of BVE shit from the 2000's:
- wingace.net
- bve.jpn.org
- sb588.s201.xrea.com
- www.hi-ho.ne.jp/yosansen
- www.geocities.jp/ichi_sikokutyuou
- www.geocities.jp/shirasagi_s
- www.kazeiro.net www.kazeiro.net/chikuroan/
This last one seems to be some guy's personal website

Reminder the Japanese GeoCities is going down now as well.

good thread OP.
loving this. these sites are so fast too.
we have actually regressed a lot in improving ourselves in a lot of areas.
we should be doing space maneuvers regularly but we are here wondering why the fuck are previous sites so fast and we have laggy sites now even though we have good hardware.
we have regressed as a society when race wasnt a big issue but now it's a hot topic.
ill end now. these old websites are bringing some kind of not too sad but disappointed feelings.

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wow this thread is really sad. I really miss the days when websites wern't full of bloated js code

thesecretofbluewater.com/

Beat this.

It's actually shocking how shit so much of technology is getting. I mean, at a fundamental level we're not doing all that much different on computers than we were doing for about 20 years previously, yet the demands to do it is getting more and more every year.