Dead Websites/Applications you Miss?

What are dead websites/applications you miss? In this case, I mean websites that are completely gone, not still up and running, but a shell of what they once were. Same with applications. Besides forums that came and went in my life, there aren't any websites I really miss... except Vine. I suppose the new Vine is Tictoc for the kids these days... but I really don't care about it.

And I guess I miss MSN, because, for what it was, it was really fun & customizable, unlike Skype. :x

Honestly, I feel like nothing will top the old MSN/Windows Live Messenger days for me. Not even Discord captures that same feeling. Of course, that could be nostalgia itself talking, but being randomly invited to a group chat by one of your friends and messing around and having crazy usernames was one of the most memorable parts about it.

Also, nudges. Not that I'm the annoying type that does them, but nudges were hella funny. :x

Oh, and AIM! Now I wasn't a huge user of AIM, but it was certainly interesting to use for the like...2 or 3 people I had on my AIM list , lol. I will never forget how using it made me feel like MSN was a more "modern" (at the time, anyway), way of chatting.

And I dunno if they're still up these days, but I miss the third party sites that allowed you to sign into IM services like MSN, because I used the crap out of them when I was somewhere like school where I couldn't download MSN but I still wanted to talk to my friends. Fun stuff.

Last thing, IRC. I know IRC still "exists" (probably), but for the most part it's largely a wasteland and I really miss the days where I would download the mIRC client alongside NNS (NoNameScript was especially super cool because it allowed you to customize the look and feel of your client to make it look significantly less ugly than what the mIRC client was) and just hop on various IRC servers and start chatting. Really, IRC, alongside MSN was how I've made some pretty crazy memories with some people because I remember we used to have clique channels and those were nuts, haha.

The internet sure was a hell of a place in the mid-late 2000s.

I grew up on AOL so I thought that's all there was when I was little and in grade school. I miss MSN and AIM too. I know in elementary we used Yahooligans...lol.

Meebo. Great platform for logging into multiple messaging services in one nice, clean interface.

I don't really wanna be the one to say it buuuuut... Limewire anyone?

*insert obligatory MSN and the iconic noise when you got a message in here*

Limewire FTW! I use to use that ALL THE TIME! I use to get some really good stuff off of there.

I miss Nintendo's old forums sometimes. It was far from perfect, but I had a lot of good memories there. Also Yahoo messenger! So many memories with it!

MSN is the only thing I really miss.

I can't get myself to reliably switch to any other messaging app since it died.

speaking of nintendo forums, i remember miiverse, a place I use to use a lot, before my gamepad on my Wii U broke. I do miss it, but i can live without it, since i have discord.

I never used much of it, but the times I did use AIM I had a lot of fun. Got to chat with my little middle school girlfriend. <3

Also YTMND. Besides all the CP and anti-semitism, there were many laughs to be found there in the early days.

I really enjoy using MSN messager, it feels less because Skype/Discord dont have the feeling and customization as MSN messager do

I spent time talking to my old school mate in yahoo messager, just like MSN they are also bricked to extinction.. again skype/discord doesnt have same feeling as these messagers

MSN, the old Neopets (idk if this counts but it's never been the same for me after they revamped the entire site, though I do still log in), Paladore. Paladore used to be pretty popular and I made many memories playing with my irl friend. Nowadays it's pretty dead, rare for even one or two people to be online. ):

I miss MSN with all my heart.

Sheep said:

MSN, the old Neopets (idk if this counts but it's never been the same for me after they revamped the entire site, though I do still log in), Paladore. Paladore used to be pretty popular and I made many memories playing with my irl friend. Nowadays it's pretty dead, rare for even one or two people to be online. ):

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i will forever miss how the old neopets site was

nowadays there are so many dead links that pretty much ruin the experience for me. it's a shell of its former self and it's sad...

I miss AIM so much. It was so personal and you could do so much customization. There hasn't been anything thats felt the same since.

MapleStory. Hands down the most fun I ever had on an MMORPG. Now, it's pretty much single-player oriented and dead. Oh, the wasted hours...

I should add that single-player games are fine. But it was the multiplayer aspect that made this game so fun. Queuing for party quests, chats on the ships to other parts of the map, questing together... that pretty much no longer exists.

I miss MSN and AIM. Also I'm not 100% sure but I wanna say there was a website of wacky packages where you could play mini games related to those, but I can't find it anywhere anymore.

Also AOL had some fun games.

I miss Neopets a lot. I made a new account like two years ago but barely played after a few weeks. It just wasn't the same.

suddenly remembering a few more dead virtual petsites I used to frequent

neurogalaxy, nutrinopets, chibipaws, ichumon (still exists but dead)....gah I miss the days when they were more popular.