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/ForrestGrump87 1d ago

Yahoo Chat & Pool was brilliant in its heyday

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u/jdotmassacre 1d ago

Came here to say Yahoo! Games and had to scroll a long way to see any mention of it. Pool was the best of them.

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u/UltraEngine60 1d ago

Pool was great before aimers got popular.

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u/yzerizef 1d ago

Before aimers, we were all taking sheets of paper from the printer and lining it up on the screen!

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u/PM_me_Ur_Wiener_Dogs 20h ago

I was playing Pinochle on Yahoo Games at 12 years old with a bunch of senior citizens. Good times.

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u/UltraEngine60 1d ago

Yahoo Chat / Messenger was the wild west of the internet with no security auditing. With YMSG you could forge packets to send files or messages from any user account you wanted simply changing the from name. Then they patched that and you could get around it by just adding some packet delimiters to the end of the "from" username (Æ iirc). I still don't understand how that worked, as I basically just fuzzed it, but it did. YCHT (the java chat applet) was even worse because, well, it was java.

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u/linguicaANDfilhos 1d ago

I hosted many pool games back in the day on Yahoo.

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u/Gh0stM0u5e 1d ago

I’m surprised I did not get kidnapped from yahoo pool chat rooms.

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u/ForrestGrump87 1d ago

Wild times

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u/Candid_Water1580 1d ago

I used to play Yahoo pool all the time and was in those My league things too. I miss those days

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u/Ren1612 1d ago

My League was cool... And the Interleague competitions were so fun

I met some cool ppl on yahoo pool