I never had a personal website back in the 2000s (I made tons of them in Microsoft publisher, but never put any of them out into the world), but I remember browsing them for countless hours! I visited small fansites and archives, blogs, fanlistings and shrines, link directories, I loved seeing what I could find. I had to rely on the internet to get my sailor moon fix for some time since after my neighbors moved who had the tapes, and toonami stopped airing it around that time too. One of my favorite things to do whenever I got a new interest back then was to see what fansites were out there.
It was only when people posted things to Google Video and very early Youtube did I have the chance to watch episodes again. (I did know what limewire was, but made the choice to not torrent because I had enough self awareness that there was a real chance I could mess something up somewhere. XD) I never posted on any fourms but I certainly did a ton of lurking. Which is what I did for my time back then since I was so young.
I spent so much time on various flash game sites too. Either on pages dedicated to them by companies (Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, etc) or on various sites centered around a game or hosting games. (Miniclip, Newgrounds, etc) I'm so glad the Flashpoint Archive is a thing so I can relive a bunch of these games that arent on Newgrounds, since NG did the work to keep all its flash games and animations alive post support being taken down.
As a kid who got introduced to the internet in the very early 2000s (Around 2001-2002 or so, yes I was absolutely given access at way too young an age XD) I remember a lot of kid-centric MMO's too. I played so much Club Penguin and Toontown online. As well as Neopets (even though that is a pet sim and not an MMO) With those sorts of games, there was a lot a kid could do back then.
That page with the under construction banners takes me back! I remember so many of those on countless Geocities sites I would frequent.
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It was only when people posted things to Google Video and very early Youtube did I have the chance to watch episodes again. (I did know what limewire was, but made the choice to not torrent because I had enough self awareness that there was a real chance I could mess something up somewhere. XD) I never posted on any fourms but I certainly did a ton of lurking. Which is what I did for my time back then since I was so young.
I spent so much time on various flash game sites too. Either on pages dedicated to them by companies (Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, etc) or on various sites centered around a game or hosting games. (Miniclip, Newgrounds, etc) I'm so glad the Flashpoint Archive is a thing so I can relive a bunch of these games that arent on Newgrounds, since NG did the work to keep all its flash games and animations alive post support being taken down.
As a kid who got introduced to the internet in the very early 2000s (Around 2001-2002 or so, yes I was absolutely given access at way too young an age XD) I remember a lot of kid-centric MMO's too. I played so much Club Penguin and Toontown online. As well as Neopets (even though that is a pet sim and not an MMO) With those sorts of games, there was a lot a kid could do back then.
That page with the under construction banners takes me back! I remember so many of those on countless Geocities sites I would frequent.