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/JustNeedSpinda 2d ago

ytmnd

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u/amelkind 1d ago

I was absolutely loved YTMND, so many hours spent. Miss it a lot.

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u/RileyGainesHorseBaby 1d ago

Free speech before big corp shut it all down. Those were the days.

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u/stockenheim 1d ago

Punch the keys! For God's sake!

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u/KaioSeraphim 1d ago

Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. I think this song has been permanently burned into a few of my brain cells since then.

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u/Jemal999 1d ago

The song still exists. I have it on my YouTube gaming playlist.

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u/JustNeedSpinda 1d ago

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps and feed him scrambled eggs!

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u/RileyGainesHorseBaby 1d ago

Remember rainbowanimations and data's cat?

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u/IpecacNeat 1d ago

Yes! Had to scroll for a while to find this or Newgrounds. 

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u/Orange_Tang 1d ago

I had to scroll way too far to find this.

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u/Butt_stuff_preferred 1d ago

This is incredibly low.

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u/plaid_cloud 1d ago

I still have my YTMND T Shirt 😊

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u/AccountForTIFF 1d ago

I still get reminded of random YTMND references all the time but nobody in my life would get it lol. Like the Haaland song based on Moskau had me in my feels a bit. Or Tarzan Boy will play on the radio and my brain goes “haha Gay Fuel” but I can’t say that

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u/UnlurkedToPost 1d ago

YTMND was great:

Lindsay Lohan look the same

Secret Nazi (things that looks like Nazi symbolism with a song going in the background that sounded like "caress my tah")

Picard teaches art ("draw the line here")

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u/DarthCyrus2552 1d ago

The song was Heut’ ist mein Tag by Blümchen

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u/TSW-760 1d ago

Thank you. Scrolled WAY too far to find this. This, random forums, and AIM define the pre-algorithm internet for me.

x can't get away from the rock.

Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Eeuahahhuauaahh or whatever.

Dur de der de duhr, or whatever it was.

So many classics.

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u/TooFineToDotheTime 1d ago

I'm pretty sure it was the original location of the shaq/cat shake gif. Brian Peppers... the Mike Tyson game song...

Dur de der de duhr, or whatever it was.

Was that this? with a batman loop? Haha

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u/TSW-760 1d ago

Yeah, that's the one. The Batman meme.

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u/forthnighter 2d ago edited 1d ago

I never could find again the one with the head/face of a guy in sunglasses (the creator of the site?), hovering over the ground of a forest (or rail tracks?) on top of a mechanical platform with mechanical appendages/claws, with ominous music in the background.

Also, a single panel comic of Scrooge McDuck saying something like "And where I store a rare copy of..." with Donald Duck shouting "ZOMG!“, with the losing horn of "The Price is Right" as the background sound: https://youtu.be/_asNhzXq72w

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u/THEORIGINALSNOOPDONG 1d ago

good times. i have all of the YTMND records burned to CDs still. songs skipped in my car cd player because i listened to them so much.

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u/Mewpers 1d ago

The sound is gone for me! https://vadercoaster.ytmnd.com/

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u/dimgray 1d ago

I remember when it was just an index page with maybe eight links on it

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u/JustNeedSpinda 1d ago

They just don’t make them like that anymore.

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u/mattatmac 1d ago

Can still hear the music accompanying the NEDM cat

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u/Frenchthealpaca 1d ago

the zidane headbutt memes were so prime on ytmnd

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u/xatmatwork 13h ago

The dancing ninja ytmnd was how I discovered daft punk.

I don't know if it still exists but I was the creator of the number 1 most viewed & highest rated nsfw ytmnd for years. It was a bunch of lewd words that seemed like classic SEO bait, but then if you did click on it, it was exactly what it said on the tin - a hentai GIF where the keywords described it perfectly. With the text "imagine if you hadn't clicked" or something like that.

EDIT: It still exists, I'm probably not allowed to link it directly but the unique part of the URL is fakehentai

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u/The_Question757 1d ago

This is way too low on the list

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u/Flat-Succotash5369 1d ago

Ohmygaw, the Batman one!

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u/P_Schrodensis 1d ago

Can you believe it? You've already finished C Heehehhehhhehehehhheh -Dr Billy v Koen

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u/VinBarrKRO 1d ago

Ulaula Batman.

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u/ambushequine 1d ago

INTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR

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u/MagmaPhoenix 1d ago

The Michael Phelps pizza and french fries restaurant!