Forums were pretty great! It's a shame that discussions are so quickly lost on the present-day Internet. I'm glad Dreamwidth lets you filter a journal by a particular tag, or check what someone posted on a particular date.
I don't remember shoutboxes, alas! Were they sort of... chatrooms where people don't talk to each other?
I should have mentioned Neopets! Loved that site. I suppose it's a more sophisticated variant on the 'intricate maze to explore' type of website I mentioned in my post.
I actually still have my account on there, full of starving pets. I used to get drawn back into actively playing it every few years, although it's easier to resist now that the demise of Flash has rendered large portions of the site unusable. My Neopets username is pokemorphblitz, as a reference to the Pokémorphs fic I mentioned in the entry; Blitz was a Mew in the fic!
There was also a lot of 'their magenta orbs wavered' on the Neopets roleplaying boards, come to think of it; I used to spend a fair bit of time there.
I remember 8-Bit Theatre and Homestar Runner, but not the 'If I were a spammer' song, alas! I remember this Final Fantasy Flash video by LegendaryFrog, though, set to a silly song based on the chocobo theme; did you ever see it? The song still gets stuck in my head occasionally.
Lastly, travesties of website design. Why yes, putting bright pink text on a bright red background is a great idea. I like both colours, don't tell me it's unreadable!
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I don't remember shoutboxes, alas! Were they sort of... chatrooms where people don't talk to each other?
I should have mentioned Neopets! Loved that site. I suppose it's a more sophisticated variant on the 'intricate maze to explore' type of website I mentioned in my post.
I actually still have my account on there, full of starving pets. I used to get drawn back into actively playing it every few years, although it's easier to resist now that the demise of Flash has rendered large portions of the site unusable. My Neopets username is pokemorphblitz, as a reference to the Pokémorphs fic I mentioned in the entry; Blitz was a Mew in the fic!
There was also a lot of 'their magenta orbs wavered' on the Neopets roleplaying boards, come to think of it; I used to spend a fair bit of time there.
I remember 8-Bit Theatre and Homestar Runner, but not the 'If I were a spammer' song, alas! I remember this Final Fantasy Flash video by LegendaryFrog, though, set to a silly song based on the chocobo theme; did you ever see it? The song still gets stuck in my head occasionally.
Lastly, travesties of website design. Why yes, putting bright pink text on a bright red background is a great idea. I like both colours, don't tell me it's unreadable!
This made me smile. Absolutely!