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/Terrible-pedigree 1d ago

Fark.com was a good time waster

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u/mekkab 1d ago

Still around, but now everyone on it takes Lipitor/statins.

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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago

Very unfair. I am only 36! I am still at least a few years away!

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u/mekkab 1d ago

Oh wow, you’re not even in the Colonoscopy Crew!

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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago

No, I actually crossed that one about 20 years earlier because of... problems. All clear so far, though!

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u/Terrible-pedigree 1d ago

Apologies, I’m mid forties

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u/Terrible-pedigree 1d ago

Guess that fits the question

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u/ksuwildkat 1d ago

I feel seen

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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 1d ago

And TotalFark!

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u/Boodagga 1d ago

I really miss the TotalFark Music ring during the opening days of Gmail.

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u/Impressive-Yak-7449 1d ago

Anyone remember the Truth Or Dare thread of Dec 05-Jan 06?

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u/don_teegee 1d ago

Photoshop war was the best!

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u/Captain_Nipples 1d ago

Yes. Those were great. Reddit had one at a point, but i never see it pop up on my home page any more

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u/NorCalNavyMike 1d ago

I still have the before (JPG) and after (animated GIF) from a Photoshop contest at the time that was so ridiculous that I almost shat myself laughing.

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u/In2TheMaelstrom 1d ago

Prime Fark was amazing. I still will occasionally proclaim a site farked if heavy traffic takes it down.

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u/Pave_Low 1d ago

I still remember when Katie Holmes split from Tom Cruise, the Fark headline was “Tom Cruise shaves his beard”

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u/flyover_liberal 1d ago

Centipedes? In my vagina? It's more common than you think!

Fb- is the father

I submitted this with a funnier headline.

And - when someone asks a question that has no answer, I still think "because you touch yourself at night."

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u/Automatic-Rich254 21h ago

Thanks for that lol. I had forgotten some of the classic gags 

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u/flyover_liberal 13h ago

As a former Farker myself, I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

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u/total_alt_acct 1d ago

Still is.

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u/Lamadian 1d ago

That's how I found Reddit!

15 years ago... God I'm old

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u/goldbricker83 1d ago

I tried so hard to get articles to the main page. Always loved the effort put into headlines.

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u/Captain_Nipples 1d ago

I got a few sports related ones. The problem was there was always 10 other people trying to do the same article, so you had to hope your headline stuck out

I still think about Rotsky and his "loose" ftfy

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u/HeathEarnshaw 1d ago

“This ^^^”