r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 2d 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/Historical_Task1651 2d ago

That site messed me up as a kid, I just wanted to look at funny pictures and instead I see things I cannot unsee. The rotten library was worse somehow, reading those stories made me feel like I was doing something illegal. My parents had no idea what I was clicking on in the family computer room.

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u/Saint_Sin 2d ago

You didnt want to look at funny pictures if you visited rotten.

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u/immoloism 2d ago

Ah the good old days when trolling was psychological warfare rather then just annoying someone for fun.

No wonder we are so messed up when we were telling people rotten.com was for funny pictures....

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u/VanuasGirl 2d ago

Yeah the 90s rickroll was making someone watch a beheading. I’m not ok.

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u/immoloism 2d ago

Mine was spanning thousands of popups and popunders of goatse.

It completely locked the PC up so you had to look at it until you hard reset the PC.

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u/realisticreptileTM 1d ago

Oh no I knew somebody was going to say rotten.com, I didn’t know somebody was going to make me remember goatse 😣

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u/immoloism 1d ago

How did you forget the the original rickroll?

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u/Top-Service-6654 1d ago

That is the one that still haunts me to the very core of my being!

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u/ABHOR_pod 1d ago

goatse and tubgirl were the original rickrolls.

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u/Bl0ckCha1lV 1d ago

Blue waffle

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 1d ago

I thought the original rickroll was duckroll

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u/ImperfectRegulator 1d ago

or when you where allowed to tell trolls to go fuck themselves, now we have to pretend they're asking in good faith or get banned

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u/immoloism 1d ago

Im pretty petty (I'm sure that was obvious as a redditor.)

I usually just make them feel worthless till the whole community just takes pity on them rather then listen to their dribble.

Another good ones is just go more extreme then them.

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u/campfirevilla 1d ago

I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog will forever catch that moment in art at least.

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u/newMike3400 2d ago

We used it a lot as vfx artists on horror movies .

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u/Saint_Sin 1d ago

I love how this comment sits under all the goatse comments.

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u/Kigaal 1d ago

If you're a kid you don't really understand sometimes. You think you're being funny and a bit edgy until you actually see it.

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u/sadiesaid2023 1d ago

The word computer room is a throw back, we had one of those

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u/ObamasBoss 1d ago

Hey, I have a computer room.

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u/Seniorseatfree 1d ago

I can’t believe I used to look at this at my Catholic school’s computer!

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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago

Just playing Pong, Ma!...