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I do not begrudge the 13-year-olds of 2015 writing and reading shitty, grammatically challenged self-insert fic, but it makes me feel uncomfortable that a relic of my embarrassing fanfiction past is still out there. I, personally, have done my damndest to block it from memory. FFN, or the “pit of voles” as it’s not-so-affectionately known, is still going strong. OK, maybe you’re not so surprised that this one is still around. Regardless: Learning that ICQ is still going strong was only slightly less shocking for me than realizing “ICQ” is just netspeak for “I Seek You.” It took me several years to crack that one. This was AOL Instant Messenger for smart people, at least according to my 13-year-old self, who admittedly had some severe nerd-related inferiority complex issues. I don’t remember my third grade teacher’s name, but I can still rattle off my old ICQ number. They were the B*Witched of free early webhosts, though, so no one cares. Tripod, is still active too, having been purchased by search engine Lycos (nope, not dead yet either) in 1998. Geocities might be geoblocked, but we Amurricans can still use good ol’ Angelfire, the All Saints to GeoCities’ Spice Girls. Mine was Star Wars-themed, and yes, it did have a blinking star background. As a form of communal grieving, let’s all comment with the embarrassing details of our olddschool Geocities pages. I have attempted to muster my shits about what MySpace has to say on ex-Australian Idol contestants, but there are just no shits to muster.ĭon’t freak out about your free 10 megabytes of space too much, fans of animated “Under Construction” gifs: The world’s worstbest webhost is currently only available in Japan. And indeed, there it is, still MySpaceing, now as some sort of pop culture news hub.

I feel like every year, we see stories about how MySpace is back. It’s not-uncommon knowledge that early aughts blogging platform de rigueur LiveJournal is still really popular in Russia-I’ve heard the Russian mob is a particular fan, and I don’t care whether that’s true, because it’s true in my heart-but did you know LJ’s emo stepbrother DeadJournal is active? And it looks E X A C T L Y like it did when you had one? If you were a teenager who spent all their time and money buying Tim Burton merch at Hot Topic, that is.

I honor of “ the U2 of browsers,” here are ten other nostalgia-rific institutions from the early days of the Internet that have somehow made it into 2015. Instead, Microsoft is finally ditching IE and replacing it with a new browser called Project Spartan. Internet Explorer is dead, long live Internet Explorer… in a pit of fire being poked with spikes for all eternity by an army of mutant worms, because that’s what Internet Explorer deserves.