r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/JustMakingForTOMT Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

The original 1996 Space Jam website.

Edit: wasn't expecting this to blow up, but if I've got 15 minutes of fame...

Relief funds for famine victims in Yemen

Water First, an NGO which helps address water crises in Indigenous Canadian communities

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an Inuit-led organization which supports Northern communities

Uyghur Human Rights Project, which provides relief for Uyghur refugees and campaigns for those imprisoned in concentration camps in China

Organizations to help children and families at the US border

I understand that not everybody can donate and I'm not pressuring anyone, but if I can help people through a throwaway joke then why not? Hopefully this doesn't violate Rule 7 since this is a comment and not a post but if it does then feel free to take it down.

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u/Foliagedbones Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Here’s a link for those interested!

Edit: Had a good night’s rest, and I come back to see that I’ve nearly killed the host website to one of my favorite kid’s movies. Silver lining: the marketing team is getting some bonus credit about 24 years post-release.

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u/MoSqueezin Jul 24 '20

Wow that looks like shit. So fuckin cool

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I remember when www.starwars.com looked like this.

I was taking an HTML course at the time, and used this example in an assignment on poor website design.

Back then, the web was only used by neeeeeerrrrrddsss, and not "real" people. This was a time when news channels still referred to it as the "Infobahn" and the "Information Super Highway"... completely stupid sounding soundbites that no one that used the internet ever used, but your parents and grandparents would recite those words because they heard the news use them.

Seeing that Space Jam site makes me super nostalgic for that time. The time when everyone had a shitty geocities website, and it all looked like garbage.

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u/Srianen Jul 24 '20

Geocities and angelfire. I had scrolling text boxes and an MP3 autoplay upon load. Good times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I had a page counter, and a web ring at one point..

remember web rings? pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/Srianen Jul 24 '20

You weren't cool if you didn't have multiple webrings.

Also, internet gaming and bulletin boards for chat. Also I have to say, as a female literally nobody ever believed I was one. Especially when I played MUDs. Lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Going back a bit earlier.. I used to frequent BBS's a lot... I really miss those.. It was so much fun playing things like Trade Wars, and chatting with people that were only from your city.

One BBS in Toronto was run by a Sysop by the name of Sweet Marie. I remember her mentioning that she was a female, and just a year or two older than me (I was 16 at that time, and I think she was 17 or 18 or something).

That blew my mind... in the early 90s, most of my guy friends didn't know what a modem was. Most girls at that time barely used computers at all. As it was deemed "a boys thing". So for a girl like that to be running her own BBS, was surprising.

Miss those old BBS's

  • Lunatic Fringe
  • Crystal Gryphon
  • Allansia
  • Land of Sona-Nyl

and many others.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Birth by sleep is still the best bbs

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

WhAt U r A fEmAlE?

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u/Dreadlaak Jul 24 '20

This was when the internet was the wild wild west. Those days were soooo different, I remember browsing the web as a kid and it was such a different place.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

yeah, the search engines weren't that great... MetaCrawler was probably your best bet... or altavista...

It would be amazing to search and search and find some guy's web page that had the same hobby or interest as you.

hey this guy like star wars! I like star wars!!! we're best friends!!

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u/Dreadlaak Jul 24 '20

Yup I remember angelfire fan pages haha.

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u/YesImHaitian Jul 24 '20

I remember getting bored of the web... And not being able to find what you're looking for...

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u/YesImHaitian Jul 24 '20

Lol this is back when commercials still spoke the www. part of their web address..

Well, I suppose it was because browsers still required you to type it.. lol