cm0002@lemmy.world to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 months agoTIL zombo.com still exists, and no longer requires flashzombo.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkTIL zombo.com still exists, and no longer requires flashzombo.comcm0002@lemmy.world to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 months agomessage-square17fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareborf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoWere you extremely online between 2005 and 2012? If not, that’s why.
minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoI mean, I’ve certainly been actively online since the 90s, including pre-internet BBSs and the like. I guess I just missed this one. Must of not been in any of the web rings I was a part of. 😏
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoThat’s okay. Maybe you’re familiar with another meme level reference, 1 of the lucky 10,000. Web rings were like the coolest thing.
minus-squareⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThat’s one of my favorite XKCDs. 💜 And web rings were indeed cool. I had a number of websites at the time using them and even made some great friends through those associations.
minus-squareCricket [he/him]@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoWhich is relevant, because it means zombo.com was launched near the peak of the dot com bubble (burst in 2000). Makes complete sense.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoThe dedication of operating the site for 26 years.
minus-squareReannlegge@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoMakes me feel younger somehow, I thought it was older than that!
minus-squareStillwater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-22 months agoExtremely online since the 90s and I missed this one… Or saw it once and forgot it.
Were you extremely online between 2005 and 2012? If not, that’s why.
I mean, I’ve certainly been actively online since the 90s, including pre-internet BBSs and the like. I guess I just missed this one. Must of not been in any of the web rings I was a part of. 😏
That’s okay. Maybe you’re familiar with another meme level reference, 1 of the lucky 10,000. Web rings were like the coolest thing.
That’s one of my favorite XKCDs. 💜
And web rings were indeed cool. I had a number of websites at the time using them and even made some great friends through those associations.
Launched in 1999
Which is relevant, because it means zombo.com was launched near the peak of the dot com bubble (burst in 2000). Makes complete sense.
The dedication of operating the site for 26 years.
Makes me feel younger somehow, I thought it was older than that!
Extremely online since the 90s and I missed this one… Or saw it once and forgot it.