What do you remember from the classic internet era (2007-2012)?

[KittenNoir]

I remember playing all the best games, Club Penguin, Star Doll, Fantage, Neopets and so on!!!

 

[amemome]

Numa Numa amd Hamster Dance were big in my post-Yahooligans era. AlbinoBlackSheep, Sambakza(spelling???)'s There She Is! Flash animations, Newgrounds, Real Ninjas and its spoofs, Hellpoemer's Naruto animations on DeviantArt, etc. I had a lot of fun.

 

[DaCoSim]

Heck, no, take me back to 2001 with the dial up AOL screech!!!!

 

[ali.di.magix]

First thing that comes to mind is the cringe memes lol. Trollface Era was just something else.

I remember flash games like Star Doll, Moshi Monsters, any miniclip games etc. and playing them on computers at school

I also remember classic YouTube with Charlie the Unicorn, Gummi Bear, nigahiga, Shane Dawson etc...also a cringe era lol

 

[Chris]

All I remember about 2007 specifically was being mad that Electronic Arts decided to merge their The Sims 2 forum UK with other existing forums and create one big EA UK community forum. TS2UK had been my internet home for years and while I made some new friends through the move (lots of FIFA fans, one I even met in person in 2009) it was never the same.

 

[Kitsuragi]

did anyone else other than me play OurWorld? i was obsessed with it from 2011-2013. i played it a few more years between 2016-2019 for the nostalgia, then it shut down because the company didnt wanna moderate it.

i really miss virtual spaces like that. avatar dress up and "rooms" to interact with rather than JUST forums.

 

[xX-Popplio-Xx]

did anyone else other than me play OurWorld? i was obsessed with it from 2011-2013. i played it a few more years between 2016-2019 for the nostalgia, then it shut down because the company didnt wanna moderate it.

i really miss virtual spaces like that. avatar dress up and "rooms" to interact with rather than JUST forums.

I remember playing it for a little while. I would mostly play Fantage and Monkey Quest. I miss virtual worlds too…

 

[Hyoon]

i'm not sure if i remember the specific year correctly for all these things but hopefully i'm close

- using skype/msn before discord was a thing
- everyone using facebook
- finding anime episodes on youtube split in parts
- watching og youtubers like nigahiga, jenna marbles, pewdiepie, michelle phan, superwoman/lily singh
- looking for random/funny answers on yahoo answers
- play mini flash games on disney/nick or barbie/polly pocket/bratz dolls
- being obsessed with tumblr
- forums being way more active
- using gamefaqs for those long text only walkthroughs if i get stuck on a game
- joining random chatrooms which now that i look back on i really shouldn't have been doing cause there were a lot of creeps who tried to talk to me
- limewire (if u know u know)

 

[Hypno KK]

The fact that something from 2007 is considered "classic" is making me feel old. I'm going to crawl into a corner and die from old age now.

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

nigahiga's how to be ninja now thats a gem and ofc nico nico douga with the mad vids and also memes originating from there now thats a classic.

 

[Neb]

I remember during that era YouTube videos had much less production quality, but more channels were passion projects rather than the endless sea of shills trying to make a living on the site like everyone else and complaining about YouTube not paying them enough that is today. Half of the gaming YouTubers I watched back then either cursed every five seconds, casually dropped spoilers for video games, made tasteless jokes, or ended up doing something awful that got them in trouble later. The other half either quit or are still making videos and struggling to get the attention they used to get despite making much better content now.

I remember playing flash games of varying degrees of quality on “coolmathgames.com” at that time. Runner 2 and the Papa’s games were great, while many of the others were mindless or intentionally unfair. I never thought of making an account back then, so I never got to save my progress.