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The old SomethingAwful for me.

> Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them?

They stopped having web pages and started having Xangas/Friendsters/Myspaces that had the networking feature built-in.



Fark/Totalfark was fun for a while but descended into an echo chamber of cliques and in-jokes. It was a good preview of what reddit would eventually become.


They also had a redesign fiasco.


2000-2003 Something Awful was my favorite internet community/site ever. It's too bad about what happened with Ozma and Fistgrrl. Oh well.


Photoshop Friday was kinda hit or miss, for for the funny ones they were really funny




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