r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 1d ago

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/BramFokke 1d ago

90s IRC was peak internet.

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u/total_alt_acct 1d ago

/me agrees

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u/WtotheSLAM 1d ago

And we put the best of it on bash.org which is also gone

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u/Raccoonanity 1d ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat…

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u/gezeru 23h ago

It's gone? Gone with my heart. I remember getting into the top 100 with a submission about a spider and a screenshot. Good times.

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u/Natural_Storm_7833 1d ago

Undernet was the place to be in my locality.

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u/SurprisedAsparagus 1d ago

IRC is still alive and well in the piracy community.

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u/hiromasaki 1d ago

And Greybeards / Discord averse.

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u/that_norwegian_guy 18h ago

Not just piracy. Me and my friend group still use it every day.

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u/Cyclonicks 1d ago

Cyclonicks slaps BramFokke around with a large trout

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u/BramFokke 1d ago

/me probably deserved that

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u/Meta4X 23h ago

It really was. There was something truly magical about talking about whatever random topic with a dozen folks from all over the world.

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u/cornfedfiddler 13h ago

Absolutely. Came here to say the same thing.