what old website you missed thats not around anymore?

[blackdragon6]

for me it was yesterdayland.com

[Sir Tim Drake]

Most of the old sites that I used to visit are still available through www.archive.org.

[The Joker]

Well ..... I was going to say Wrestlecrap, but Sir Tim Drake's link took care of that one. So nevermind. :D

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

Most of the old sites that I used to visit are still available through www.archive.org.
thats how blackdragon6 and i visit yesterdayland. too bad some message boards aren't accessible that way though.

[Paul Newell]

This (http://web.archive.org/web/19970416100158/http://comics.envisionww.com/) was a great one...Click on the Message Board link, they were brilliant! :D

[MacQuarrie]

Icy Hot Stuntaz (http://web.archive.org/web/20041115041751/http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/bling.htm)

[Headhunter]

ScoopMe.com :(

[Michael P]

Web Site #9.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

www.wrestleline.com


Yes its back in a new form and the old owners managed to buy the domain name from CBS Sportsline who shut it down in 2001. But it'll never be the way it once was. When some young poster named ECWFAN stumbled into it and started chattin with a bunch of nice fans.


Those were the days.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Unca Cheeks Silver Age Comics Site.

[3Horn]

In September of '94, I found a website which was called (I believe) webworld.net. It was the precurser of MMORPGs and other VR worlds.

The graphics were pretty simple, but the idea was very Gibsonesque:

You enter the site, looking at a red globe, green spots on it indicated where data was stored. You then "flew" down to the data cities, and could move from data source to data source. Data sources could be built into VR constructs, such as houses, office buildings, etc.

It was way ahead of it's time.

[JTLauder]

www.gonegold.com

It was a computer game site, but what was good about it was that it collected, summarizes and averaged all the different computer game site reviews so you get a good overview of a game rather than a single review from a single perspective. It was also very good in pooling release information about a series, such as all it's patches and expansions and re-releases, so you know which package was which. It was a great resource.

[JTLauder]

Also: www.webreview.com

(Apparently it redirects to Dr.Dobbs Journal, which is a great magazine, but not the same).
I had a number of friends who worked on this site and wrote some of the articles, which was what made it great. It's purely an online magazine about web design and development written by average joes like you and me who work in the industry. It was a lot like www.webmonkey.com

But it got successively bought over by bigger and bigger publishing companies until finally CMP took it and decided they had bigger sites covering the same thing, so they shut down webreview.

[Sheldon]

I loved www.adcritic.com
There were so many comercials that were so cool and funny....and then it got too popular couldn't afford the bandwidth and eventually respawned as something very different.

[K'Nort]

Adcritic was fantastic. I also really miss Brunching Shuttlecocks. I mean, it's still out there but it's not being updated.

[J Dog]

I miss Grudge Match. It's still up... just forever dormant.

[StoneGold]

I'm forgetting the name of the site, but maybe ECW can help me out. It was a wrestling site, the one Hyatt first started doing reviews at. Back in 1998, it was probably the most irreverant wrestling site on the net.

[Deathstroke]

SimplyJD.com

[Dizzy D]

www.oldmanmurray.com the website still exists, but hasn't been updated in ages and the forums are long gone.

[Davideaux]

www.suck.com

[ocelotrevs]

www.profilenation.com
It didn't have enough money too keep going

[StoneGold]

http://www.videogameradio.com Oh, it's still up there, it just doesn't get updated till I can stop working 50-60 hour workweeks.

[Matt Algren]

This (http://web.archive.org/web/19970416100158/http://comics.envisionww.com/) was a great one...Click on the Message Board link, they were brilliant! :D
That's hilarious! It almost made me wish we still used the old paper monkey style. Then I remembered dial-up.

I wish they'd archived the actual messages. It would've been interesting to see the content of the conversations. Three cool/funny things with the limited (and awesome) archived pages:

1) Amazing how many posters from almost ten years ago are still around.

2) The "Who would win: Parallax or the Spectre?" thread.

3) Speculation about the Clooney Batman movie leading to a quote so great, it just might end up in my sig. "Jumping the gun is what made these boards great!" - Joe Grendel 10:19:25 11/24/96

[phoenixrising]

Hecklers.com - best damn joke site ever. It had this weekly top ten where it would give the topic and then pick the ten most offensive responses from readers....I became obsessed with making that list (and I did, once, for a reply that involved Sally Struthers and vagina farts).

*sigh* I miss it.

[Paul Newell]

Joe always had a way with words. :)

And seeing some of the different names people used...I'm there as "paul" with a lowercase, TKM was fly on the wall...Maquarrie wasn't using "Big Red Cheese" yet...Some guy called Kurt Mitchell hadn't siad the magic word yet. :)

EDIT: BTW, how prophetic is this? :D

[Donald M.]

I miss Grudge Match. It's still up... just forever dormant.

I miss Grudge Match too!

I'm in the top ten for responders with the most points for earning Grudgies, but I'd be higher if they ever updated the stats, which someone should do now that there won't be any more matches!

Ah well. :D

[Roquefort Raider]

There was a swipe page associated with some comic-book shop or other. I forgot its name and address. It had an ongoing contest where people would send artwork swiped from certain artists by others. Visitors to the site could vote on whether they thought the similarity between images were coincidence, homage, or actual swipe.

At one point I thought that all of Jim Lee's art had seen print at least twice, because almost all of his work was swiped by younger Lee-wannabees at one point or the other!

[J Dog]

I miss Grudge Match too!

I'm in the top ten for responders with the most points for earning Grudgies, but I'd be higher if they ever updated the stats, which someone should do now that there won't be any more matches!

Ah well. :D
What's your favorite response? I think I remember you in Beastmaster/Planet of the Apes. Did you do "Damn Dirty Ape"?

[Donald M.]

What's your favorite response? I think I remember you in Beastmaster/Planet of the Apes. Did you do "Damn Dirty Ape"?

No. Sadly, I actually remember every Match I earned a Grudgue in.

I got Golds for:

Superfriends vs. X-Men

Kevin McCallister vs. The Living Dead (I also suggested the Match)

Latka vs. Balki

Battle of the Seven Deadly Sins

Silvers in:

The Muppet Show vs. Sesame Street

Wile E. Coyote vs. Kenny McCormick

And Bronzes in:

Miami Vice vs. Charlie's Angels

Battle of the Oscar Hosts

Lamb Chop vs. The Pets.com Sock Puppet

C3PO vs. Marvin the Paranoid Android

Austin Powers vs. Inspector Clouseau

Marty McFly vs. Sherman & Mr. Peabody vs. Doctor Who


(edit) My favorite response is the one I sent in to their Howard Stern vs. Rush Limbaugh match. That was before there were Grudgies. It was also long before I got regular home internet access, so I lost touch with the site for a long while.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

-up.

I wish they'd archived the actual messages. It would've been interesting to see the content of the conversations.

yeah i wish most websites would do that,thats why i'm glad yesterdayland still has most of theirs

[Bard]

Most of the old sites that I used to visit are still available through www.archive.org. (http://www.archive.org.)

Thank you, at least through that, I can see glimpses of CrossGen.com.

Man, I would give anything to have it back.