The Internet Used To Be Ugly

[@Huggbees]

Download Opera GX for free: operagx.gg/Huggbees

[@vertty1727]

no

[@sleepyboi7542]

Does it come with an opera ticket?

[@theeidiot6375]

Yes💪💪

[@JamesSonOfBaboonzo]

Okay.

[@glueeater5058]

Thank yoy

[@coffeebean2]

Fun fact about pointerpointer: the creator said that he could have made the load times between pictures faster, but he kept it long to build suspense. Edit 1: Dear god, what the hell happened in the replies?! Edit 2: Most of the discourse was deleted. For those curious, the first few replies began with a few people who said some "interesting" things about femboys for some reason. One guy took it too far, leading to what you see now. Edit 3: Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to handle the answer to.

[@MochaFur1]

wonder what it would look like if there were no load times at all

[@grimle]

just visited and the first image i got was like just someones picture from an acutual funral

[@MochaFur1]

@@grimle 😰

[@waffler-yz3gw]

@@MochaFur1thats actually possible iirc

[@BBWahoo]

@@LunarLocust Especially when you laugh at their clitty ;3

[@brainrot_formerboy]

As a french canadian I know from personal experience that "rebuplique des mangues" is the french translation for Mango Republic. Mango Republics were a very crucial part of French Canadian history because that's where the mangos come from. Hope this helped!

[@OUTERsociety]

U

[@GGPlex_]

Neat

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

Ew Canadian French

[@Sheet_music_eater]

That’s crazy

[@OUTERsociety]

@@GGPlex_ furries should not be here

[@TheArcticBaboon]

I genuinely love the ugly old internet aesthetic. There's no question that it was horrifically designed, clunky, and difficult to navigate - but it was fun in it's own, wierd way. If anyone wants to have a taste of what old message boards used to be like, Hypnospace Outlaw parodies them pretty accurately. It's a pretty fun game in general, highly recommend if you have nostalgia/ a general interest in this kinda stuff. 👍

[@DJstarrfish]

I also like how he says the old internet was full of "bloat" when modern web browsers and web technologies form an incomprehensible mass of JavaScript and OS-level functionality on the same scope of complexity as the Space Shuttle missions.

[@maccamachine]

It was way better than what it is now

[@Topdoggie7]

I remember it never loading at all. Good bad times.

[@venomsnanake]

@@maccamachine no

[@TheArcticBaboon]

@@venomsnanake eh... I mean some parts were better. The internet definitely used to be much more interesting and exciting than it is now. More open too. But it was also messier/ more chaotic, and the load times were horrendous. 😅

[@bazmaster07]

My mum leased a car from Ling over a decade ago. She would personally call my mum to make sure she was liking the car. Really sweet lady, crazy nostalgia trip seeing her on here.

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

Thanks for the reminder to donate to the internet archive and their fight to be allowed to archive this everburning library.

[@trevorsmith6216]

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is being widely regarded as a bad move.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

God bless Douglas Adams 😂

[@henryribnikar4163]

YESSSS

[@chiisuigintou]

I think you must hate Georges Lemaître? He was the one who came up with the big bang theory.

[@gryphka]

​@@chiisuigintouit's a reference to a book

[@SamanthaLaurier]

@@gryphka One of the best books ever written, in fact

[@luigi7834]

bees bees bees used to be a website that had a gif of oprah edited to look like she was giving out bees to her studio audience. it had clips of people crying and freaking out (over the prizes she gave away) but with swarms of bees edited in. im sad it's gone

[@heroinlover9000]

i'm fucking devastated

[@OrgusDin]

better than the actual oprah (not hard)

[@zddzzdzddz]

thanks, I thought it was nicolas cage screaming about the bees lol

[@Nate2010]

NOOO

[@basamortua8791]

I thought that was a YTMND thing

[@bigcooltony437]

I honestly love the old internet style, it’s a lot more creative looking than bland and boring websites now

[@Jesse-xg8rk]

Honestly, as soon as I read the title I thought to myself, "He means the internet used to be personal and charming..."

[@Pixelcraftian]

Exactly we love to see wacky gradients 3d spinning text and funny gif

[@reinhardt3090]

Now it all feels corporate and simplistic.

[@WalnutAnimations]

@@Pixelcraftianyeah

[@chiisuigintou]

I love the actual old internet more. Such a wonderful place, so much knowledge stored in one place. Instead of just porn, memes, pointless chitchat, etc. All stores inside the beautiful Palais Mondial.

[@sarahweldon8189]

15:49 I can explain this! This is a riff on the painting "Broadway boogie woogie" by Piet Mondrian. It is meant to be a tribute to the lights, sounds and energy of Broadway. By animating it, they allow others to experience the piece in a more real way.

[@JarethGT]

It would be cool if "Web 3.0" had the polish of Web 2.0, but also the ridiculous creative freedom of Web 1.0

[@official-obama]

unfortunately, name is taken by crypto or something. maybe web 4.0?

[@HungerGamesFan00]

@@official-obama ive been seeing the idea of a web0 floating around

[@official-obama]

@@HungerGamesFan00 shift the numbers so that web 4.0 and web 5.0 refer to web 1.0 and web 2.0 and they become old but correct terms, so the crypto people are now talking about something that's so old, it's older than web 4.0!!! xD

[@NIsForNick67]

web 1.5

[@hexywesky]

I hope one day Huggbees has all the money. No one else deserves any

[@DoctorBallsStrikesAgain]

tru

[@hismajesty6272]

Agree

[@AJ-zu7ct]

May his subscribers have $5 to buy a 2 for 5 at Burger King??

[@danielbeck9683]

Yes

[@MarquetteTheFourchette]

Make this fact the top comment

[@Last_Person]

The utter despair I felt with BeesBeesBees was gone, it was so stupid, and I’ll miss its existence

[@silverspirit4199]

Lmao, it was just Opra, and then a huge amount of Bee's would fly out towards you. It really was stupid

[@Qtip290]

Beesbeesbeesbees I think is a remake

[@leightonpetty4817]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@silverspirit4199Correction: It was just Opra, and then a huge amount of bees would fly out towards you. It really was glorious, and I miss it dearly.

[@Caldella]

I really want Huggbees to buy it now and turn it into the modern shitpost it deserves.

[@CeliMew]

THE BEES ARE COMING

[@LilBoyTasmanKim]

As a South Korean, I'm all teared up listening our national anthem. God bless our country, and bless you, too Mr. Huggiesbee

[@LikaLaruku]

Every night in Seoul I say what I want & eat food That is how I know we are Best Korea Far across the distance And spaces between us How do people in Worst Korea go on? Near, far, wherever you are I believe that communism should not go on.

[@raiisleep]

"SPELL MY NAME RIGHT!"

[@rebelrouzer5318]

My heart goes on to you for what you must have to deal with

[@aesthetix3398]

Im eating almonds righ now its so good

[@josephmurphy417]

​@@aesthetix3398 my president isn't eating all my food rn

[@visionplusdrive]

In the late 90's I taught myself basic HTML and built so many Pokemon and DBZ Fanpages. I would join webrings to drive traffic to my sites. The internet was like a really best kept secret back then. Most of my friends didn't even have dialup internet, much less knew how to get around the web, and definitely didn't know wtf HTML was. I really miss it. I credit the early internet with why I'm so creative today, as it was my outlet for creativity.

[@gefehede7783]

If people from the 90's went 30 years into the future, they'd think they were in a completely different civilization. One thing I miss from back then, is physical media. Back in the day you had people waiting out in front of gamestops for the day one release, or to pick up their preorder, you had billboards all across the streets for a game, things were just more first hand. Now you just wait at home for your game to show up when it releases, or pre-install it.

[@spaceaids1498]

People from the 90s have gone 30 years into the future…Also, people were still waiting in line in front of GameStop in like, 2010.

[@CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000]

The internet is no longer ugly on the outside. It's now ugly on the inside.

[@azalyis1979]

okay @CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000

[@Cye_Pie]

That's very deep @CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000

[@retroryan838]

The internet today has no character. Huggbees is so used to seeing no character, when he looks at the old internet, he is so mesmerized, that his mind can’t handle the internet having a personality.

[@boredwithadhd]

no its ugly on the outside. the internet had the best design between 2006 and 2009. current website design looks trash and ugly af. i will end all who disagree

[@billyyank2198]

Actually, Ralph Wrecks the Internet showed us that the Internet looks pretty cool from the inside.

[@MusiciansRule07]

From the thumbnail alone, I started having so many childhood memories go through my head. The sound of Dial Up internet before AOL's intro, the cursed 3D Baby dancing to Hooked on a Feeling, reading fanfiction on custom websites and forums, MySpace pages making folks learn how to do basic coding things to customize everything and god, do I remember playing Russian Roulette with the whole computer trying to download music. I think that last one is part of early Web 2.0 but you get my point. I love Web 2.0. I love that the internet is faster and things like KZbin and Tumblr exist but I'll always have a soft spot for the internet that was especially since 2.0 is now pretty much an advertisement filled monopoly split between 3 billionaire idiots and the hypothetical Web 3.0 is full of Cryptocurrency scams and scammers. I'm glad Make Frontend Shit Again and other sites like it exist as an archive. It's great bittersweet nostalgia (especially with all the dead links) and a source for videos like these. Thanks for showing us. Happy 4th of July, king!

[@Itshighc]

There was a site I used to mess around on in 8th grade called The Useless Web, it had a button that you clicked that would take you to a random site they'd deemed useless, you could end up on a handful of these sites from there

[@battadia]

Same, this website honestly just seems like a worse version of that.

[@aidenwallin3523]

I used it a lot. I still have koalastothemax bookmarked. I love that website.

[@RStuckinaFridge]

I used to go on there all the time, I know almost every website there.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

Yeah these sites are unlocking core memories I thought I had lost. Though of all these sites, one called Staggering Beauty kind of stuck with me.

[@theflyingspaget]

It's still there! It's still being updated! New sites are being added regularly! I hate when people say they miss the old web, sure most of it is gone, but there's still personal websites out there! There's enough web 1.0 style projects that are still ongoing that you could never get through it all in a single lifetime. Yes, it's hardly a fraction of what used to be, but one percent of infinity is still infinity! The internet is alive and well, the only thing that died is your sense of curiosity and your tolerance to wade through some bad content.

[@Numba1indahood]

I swear, Andrew always has the smoothest transitions into his sponsor ads. On his channel and in the Official Podcast, smooth af.

[@Hutch2Much]

as convenient as the modern internet is, i absolutely adore the look of the old internet. everything nowadays just feels so stale and corporate, while old websites had this certain charm to them

[@purplehaze2358]

I love how one of the examples of websites you listed were “dolphin smuggling websites”.

[@pot_8_oes]

this video unlocked memories, man. i recognized some of the websites because they were ones that came from a "button that takes you to random websites" website, and it was a popular thing to do in school when we had the chance. thats also why some of the websites have a "try another button". on another note, a lot of the websites that have major epilepsy causing effects also came from that website. and while it's really good that you take the screen capture off when those start, we can still see the computer screen with your glasses, and while it may not be enough to cause an epileptic attack it was fucking hilarious

[@jacobsmith2242]

I think most of these were on the useless web

[@thinnairr]

StumbleUpon was one popular random website button

[@ToastyEggs]

I was born in 2007, so I wasn’t expecting to recognize any sites. But when I was younger, I saw DanTDM’s video about The Useless Web, and I played around with it a lot. So, just as knowledge passes down through the generations, websites like “ninja flex” and “eel slap” and “pointer pointer” still managed to be a part of my childhood. I now feel immense gratitude :^)

[@matth8985]

same!! i expected there to be more ppl in the comments talking about the useless web, but honestly im just happy to know these funny asf sites too lmao

[@aldelvex234]

Lol you’re a kid you grew up way too late

[@chrisbagley7034]

The Useless Web was awesome.

[@Mothbean]

Long live the Useless Web

[@theflyingspaget]

Zoomer gang unite! We're not all oblivious to what came before.

[@aaron_d_henderson1984]

the difference between the old "1.0" internet and the "2.0" internet is that the newer version is ran mostly by large corporations, which is why websites are more "uniform" and not so random as the old web. there are no websites left completely ran by individuals, only big profit companies. the old "1.0" internet was more about self expression and basically having the ability of making your own personal website look like an online scrapbook (something that cannot be done anymore do to the current state of the internet). of course, people in our current society don't help because they all believe we should follow popular opinion and never question the masses... no individual thought... mob rule is the law of the land. we are in a sad state today...

[@theflyingspaget]

What do you mean that can't be done? It's easier than ever to make a personal website! And don't you dare say that templates don't count, you can do a lot of work with templates. Now I want to make a personal site out of sheer spite.

[@RedSntDK]

You can still get your ears involuntarily blasted by visiting "You're The Man Now, Dog", which, in my memory at least, came to be quite late in web 1.0's history, or maybe I just wasn't cool enough to know about it, until around the time web 2.0 came about. Also, there was a time when you wrote HTML in hand and the release of What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Editors was a big thing. Hard to imagine today. I liked the HotDog editor.

[@aquaperson1292]

The 90s were the damn wild west for online content, I saw some insane stuff as a kid.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

@normanasklinkevicius7446 At the time yes, but looking back: we just couldnt appreciate what we had. It was the wild west but it was free, Google didn't own and control everything.

[@birdflox1337]

I mean, kids today get to see a man being skinned alive while funky town plays in the background, so... not really much better now.

[@Term-0]

It is still the wild west if you use bing... I've seen some shit...

[@wewuzwolves4428]

@@Term-0 If that's your idea of the "Wild West" . . . 😆 Yandex is more "wild west" (far less censorship) than Bing. In fact, Bing failed my "Wild West Test" miserably. My "Wild West Test"? A search for the word "Jews" and followed by the words "did 911". Bing's results for that query are all "It's an Antisemitic conspiracy theory" while Yandex contains those results alongside "THEY DID IT! AND HERE'S PROOF!" results.

[@LogeTheSpecimen]

this guy is the legend of narrating, he doesn’t need an Oscar, the Oscar needs him.

[@pauljohnson3851]

Who tf is Oscar bruh

[@LogeTheSpecimen]

@@pauljohnson3851 its an award 💀💀💀 you really dont know much lol

[@AE-or7xd]

He needs a Huggbees

[@amphibiench]

​@@pauljohnson3851you summoned me

[@Aurelius1239]

​@@amphibienchmy master You have returned

[@atomicgummygod9232]

There’s this search engine called marginalia, which is designed to intentionally search up websites which are mostly text and lack modern design formats, this reminds me of that.

[@pAiGeDrAgOnKnIgHt]

Danny Devito space manager alien was named Swackhammer, I know this off the top of my head because I thought it would be really funny to make a barbarian in DnD and name every member of her tribe after characters from space jam to see how long it would take anyone to notice

[@DustinIsHappy]

Did anyone notice?

[@pAiGeDrAgOnKnIgHt]

@@DustinIsHappy not until it got super obvious

[@morkorson4196]

I really miss typing a question and getting pages of answers instead of 6 pages of shops.

[@purplepeak8575]

I wished it still looked like this. Everything is too linear looking now. Although I was in talks with someone with interest to make a subnet based on the old internet.

[@walkingonneedles]

keep me updated with replies this sounds interesting

[@RT-qd8yl]

I want the old internet back, the one where we were free to have fun before the normies invaded. I miss forums.

[@purplepeak8575]

@@walkingonneedles trying to reply to you about it but KZbin just deletes my comments.

[@purplepeak8575]

@@walkingonneedles Legacy Update Net

[@birdflox1337]

I agree modern websites could use a bit more color and creativity, but also, a lot of old websites were just hell to navigate properly.

[@SuperOctorok]

I lived the latter days of Web 1.0. From 1995 onward...all the GeoCities and Yahoo pages. There was even anti-pokemon websites, and anti-anti pokemon websites to counter them. It was total chaos and I loved it. One of my favorite highly specific sites was HMFarm. It was a Harvest Moon fansite with everything from terribad fanfition, fanart, to game guides. Also, rest in peace Gamewinners. :(

[@Jaoheah]

Neocities exists. Basically GeoCities in the modern era

[@JoeyGelini]

YO GAMEWINNERS

[@bellablue5285]

Wait, what happened to gamewinners? I swear I went there semi-recently-ish. Maybe mid 2010s as I think about it, but they were around in the 2000s at least

[@kritsadventures]

Literally anyone could make websites before social media, and they actually had way more control over what they could do and say.

[@trevorandrew8726]

Literally anyone can make a website now lol

[@kritsadventures]

@@trevorandrew8726 This was a response to him saying something along the lines of "social media made it so everyone could have a page". I was saying they could do that easily before social media.

[@davidsenra2495]

What's the point of making a website now if all people do is connect to social media? I mean, back in the 90s, you knew you would get a large share of internet traffic through search engines. No matter how shitty or clunky your webpage was. Also, back then it was just plain HTML, even a 5 year old could do it. JavaScript's entry level is quite a bit higher.

[@maccamachine]

@@trevorandrew8726and yet they don’t and even if they do it’s not as good….

[@amitthehuman]

This is such a throwback! I'm 25 and I used to enter this website called "useless web" with a giant button that would bring you randomly to one of these shitpost sites. It was truly the best way to experience them. Also, the "sell me something weird and confusing" was 10 times better because it had the same format as "useless web" with a giant button randomly throwing you into amazon listings.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Some say those pixels are still fighting today...

[@SpyrosKoronis]

01:55 "This made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move." That Huggbees frood knows where his towel is.

[@ManiCinderellaa]

Scrolled too long to find this!!

[@littlekirby6]

pointer pointer has got to be one of the most clever websites I've seen, I remember finding it a few years ago. Just the dedication of the amount of unique pictures the owner found to point to sections of a screen is incredible

[@ognoders]

A Hitchhiker's reference in the first two minutes? Absolute fucking gold.

[@fd.]

people that teach us web development keep bringing up lingscar as an example of what not to do. even though, the fact that they talked about it means the website left a lot of impression on them, which is like, the whole point of a website.

[@hokage1997]

shoutout to everyone who grew up WITH the internet and not ON the internet

[@NathanaelNewton]

10:54 I've never seen such a look of profound joy on huggbees' face 😊

[@cursedbeans5560]

I love how you can tell huggbees hates opera gx and how it just annoys him lmao

[@dynomar11]

Seems like he's just doing an ad

[@koolkrafter5]

There's a reason they have to spend so much money on advertising to get people to know about it (hint: it's not because it's good).

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

"Just give me the f'ing money. Gotta make a whole video using this piece of shit."

[@CaptainHalibut]

The first time I heard an Opera ad read on KZbin and they mentioned the “dedicated gaming section” I wanted to fucking barf

[@cursedbeans5560]

@@CaptainHalibut ikr,it just feels so out of touch lmao

[@PorthoGamesBR]

Internet 1.0 was a free sample of true anarchy and it should have remained that way

[@YoutubeCommonman_Totas]

I've seen a lot of these on a website called "useless websites" you pressed a single button, and it'd take you to a random website, such as the eel slap one, or the corn dog one

[@kap79]

I was quite into YTMND in my youth as well. I remember quite a few of these sites. Thanks for this unexpected trip.

[@BeanutPutter01]

Man, my favorite KZbinrs are the ones that make videos about whatever the fuck they want, and you’re the best at it. Kudos to you, Huggbees, keep on keeping on.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

I think my first introduction to the internet was a friend showing me how there’s this thing called KZbin that has lego videos on there. After all these years later, it still does

[@Kaileighblue]

My first fandom interaction was making a html framed geocities webpage mapping fanart art of a celebs face to buttons with a huge webring on the bottom. People won't have that experience anymore.

[@zvndmvn]

My favorite part about building websites back in the day was lining up DragonBall Z gifs so it looked like they were fighting each other 😅

[@Jayohkay]

Fun fact, as a cyber engineer, I have to inform y'all... We're currently using Internet 3.0 not 2.0.

[@666_cthulhu]

THANK YOU. i’ve been wondering about that for so long now cos there ain’t no mf way the 2.0 internet when i was born looked ANYTHING like our current internet 😭

[@nashvontookus7451]

No we aren't. 3.0 is still being developed, so there isn't even a universally accepted definition yet.

[@spaceaids1498]

I was about to say. I thought it was common knowledge that we’re on Web 3.0

[@nashvontookus7451]

@@spaceaids1498 We're not. 3.0 doesn't even fully exist yet.

[@GamingGardevoir]

Isn’t 3.0 supposed to be all about the blockchain or something?

[@Jenn-ie5vf]

I was a teen when the internet came out. It was pretty weird compared to now, however there is a few games and sites I do miss that were fun in a weird way

[@oceanbeans8546]

this was an insane trip down memory lane. most if not all of these websites I have visited as a kid and loved

[@FrogOnADogsSittingOnALog]

It took me way to long to realize this video was just him going through random ass old websites

[@drewpeacokc]

fr

[@fazmade]

He has 1.5 mililion subscribrs

[@FrogOnADogsSittingOnALog]

@@fazmadeand he deserves more. He makes long high quality enteraining and educating videos semi frequently.

[@joshuascholar3220]

When did you realize?

[@FrogOnADogsSittingOnALog]

@@joshuascholar3220 like twenty minutes in

[@Lombwolf]

I remember so many of these just because of the ‘bored button’ website I used to use for hours on end on the library computers when I was 7 lol.

[@thewheel6212]

Useless Websites + Pointless Sites was pretty fun. I think they still work. Bees bees bees was a 4 stage video without audio of someone on TV releasing a bee farm onto the crowd

[@klulu-kun]

30:00 I like how he's clearly pissed off by Opera's A.I pop up but is still trying to sound nice because it's his sponsor.

[@SomeGuy_Somewhere]

We would never talk bad about our corporate benefactors!

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

I love how your OperaGX ad shits on it the whole time.

[@xxsniperkittykatxx]

90s websites just give me dial-up horror flashbacks. You end up waiting 15-30 minutes for something to load just for the site to be broken. So basically, like KZbin ads, except instead of a way to cheery corporate spokesperson, you get to rip your hair out the sounds of your own screams.

[@mist1660]

This... Was just incredible. It took me back to a simpler time. A time when I downloaded mods via school computers to floppy disks because I didn't have the internet at home yet.

[@cakekookabura]

I recognized a few of those. Staggering Beauty used to blair music when you wiggle too, but they stopped that less than a decade ago. I'm glad you added the space jam website, and, yes, I remembered Danny's character was Swackhammer (I think that's how it's spelled). I also think it's interesting that the Monstar's names on the website are different in the movie (Null, Zilch, Void, Nada, Bupkis vs Pound, Bang, Bupkis, Blanko, Nawt). It's too bad that the end of the trivia part of that site is broken (ans: CACABD). I really liked the 1996 space jam

[@DreamPhreak]

17:10, I put it into notepad++ and hit the "count" button. There are exactly 500,000 lols, but it can be 1 million if you count the O's in between the lols. Example: Is "lololol" 2 "lol"s with an "o" in the middle, or is it 3 "lol"s? If you accept that the middle "lol" can borrow the Ls from the neighboring "lol"s, then yes, there is 1 million.

[@fructiferous]

love how he doesn't acknowledge that christmas never falls on the 13th

[@thaliabirrueta8456]

My dumbass was looking through Google on when the next Christmas was going to land on Friday the 13th.

[@kaiyote1711]

i love the old internet look though, i’ve made my ios theme cyber trashed themed cause i just love how it looks it just reminds me of walking into my older brothers room during the early 2010’s

[@pafnutiytheartist]

17:15 I counted. there's exhactly 500 000. Weird. (I didn't waste my life, I just copyed the whole page into a text editor. Took like 40 seconds.)

[@pafnutiytheartist]

Ah. I get it. It's 1 000 000 if you count them with overlapping.

[@thecluckster3908]

If you ever want to know how it was exploring the internet back then, I highly recommend the game Hypno space outlaw.

[@purplehaze2358]

I actually recognized thatsthefinger, staggeringbeauty, and koalastothemax from my time messing around with “take me to a random useless website” while bored in school.

[@DreamPhreak]

22:56 lingscars is actually a 100% legit car leasing company. However in 2020 she retired so she can bike around the world apparently.

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Wait, so the owner was a _she?_

[@RizzAustralianHistory]

There are still old 90s websites that are still updated to this day. Best one I found was someone/some group made a website that keep records of every CAC Sabre planes.

[@wonderproductions3949]

20:42 This reminds me of the you just got lancered page from the Spamton Sweepstakes.

[@seashell2504]

This is so funny because half of these websites were compiled on the useless web when I was in middle school in 2015 and it’s just absolutely hilarious to see someone discover these websites for the first time.

[@iexist1300]

I remember seeing that site in primary school. I recognised the endless horse one and eel slap.

[@axx.8676]

Yes! That's how I found all of these websites! The useless web and the bored button. I spent so much time on those in middle school

[@carsonbestland8894]

You make everything funny, you made an ad watchable! Usually I skip them but you make everything so funny.

[@williamneeley5568]

The villain in Space Jam is Swackhammer. I am not a fan of Space Jam, but one of my all time favorite albums is called Come on and Slam by Sledding With Tigers. It is an album going over the plot of Space Jam, but it adds so much more heart into it IMO. 10/10 album by a wonderful band

[@esmeecampbell7396]

31:50 Lola Bunny is the free pass, she doesn't count....right....... I'm not a furry😨

[@naranciaisbestboi125]

I would literally watch an entire stream of Huggbees playing around on pointer pointer and also an entire stream on Ling's cars.

[@elitettelbach4247]

Wow some of these are throwbacks and some of these are genuinely fun finds! Pointer pointer is very entertaining and LingsCars is a sight to behold. Also omg pudim is such a delicious Brazilian dessert and just seeing that made me want it again. It’s essentially Brazilian flan! The old internet aesthetic sure was eye catching. I do miss it from time to time, mostly just to see how creative people could be.

[@TheToyReviewerVideos]

I am so happy you brought up space Jam! I was so mad when they finally changed it for the terrible looking new remake

[@MrSkerpentine]

IIRC they made it so you could still view the old website

[@teal_m_101]

I don't know why, but my face has been filled with absolute wonder at this phenomenon. We need this sort of crack back.

[@KaioKenneth4]

This is the earliest I’ve ever caught a Huggbees video, and yet already ~200 comments. Proud of you man. You 100% deserve it and so much more.

[@AurmazlZudeh]

😁

[@jeffgayzos937]

I honestly have to commend you for that ad. Was watching on my unnecessarily large TV and I looked up at the open tabs and got absolute whiplash. Made me quite literally lol.

[@cardboardturtle5470]

I can't hear "widely been regarded as a bad move" without thinking of the Hitchhiker's guide its probably an intentional reference but its so subtly done that I honestly can't tell if its just a coincidence or not

[@MiaTyrnfae]

I saw some of these sites a good 10-15 years ago, what an amazing archive

[@1Lordgore]

Oh god! My oldness! This whole video hurts straight in my joints. Thank you very much for the memories of the best/worst thing the human race has ever invented.

[@JackPoppy]

Love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.

[@chippotato5647]

10:52 Being able to clearly see the finger on screen through Huggbees' glasses as well as a direct feed of it makes this moment really funny in ways that defy description.

[@creengetv2418]

My HTML class teacher showed LingsCars as an example of the old web, and how it was so bad looped back to being good

[@washiyoda]

"And I absolutely love exposing myself" -Huggy 2023

[@bruhbbawallace]

correction, andy. the internet used to be beautiful and full of character, and now it's been sterilized.

[@BioshockDrill]

Both

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

I don't know, Danbarou and 4chan can tell you otherwise...

[@bruhbbawallace]

@@shirleymaemattthews4862 mostly sterilized

[@thefollower2933]

That's what happens when something gets popular.

[@Warbandit100]

@@shirleymaemattthews4862 oh, you mean those sites that rushed to join cancel culture and censorship boat when that mess with 8chan happened, and bent down to internet sterilization?

[@Sephvion]

Those days were better, even as a young kid at the time. Being in those fan sites meant you were with people who really cared about that fandom.

[@Samsfax]

After doing some work with ctrl + f, I can confirm that there are indeed 1,000,000 lols

[@visionplusdrive]

You're right about hampster dance. It was it's own page made using Expage (my favorite website builder from the mid 90's) and someone on YTMND took it and repurposed it.

[@NevinWilliams71]

There was a site, Bonsai Kittens, that showed kittens in glass vases and other containers, *as we now know they will get into, willingly, happily, on their own*, but the site trolled people by explaining how to make a permanent cubic kitten, and people lost their damn minds over it. I think it was shut down multiple times before the owner called it a day. It was one of the first massive troll sites that had concerned busybodies who'd never owned a cat, freaking the hell out, calling the cops/SPCA/PETA, etc. I would look to see if it was still around, but that's a rabbit hole I'm not up for spelunking at this time. I was in my 30s for most of the sites you posted, and this video gave me all the nostalgia feels.

[@peterbonucci9661]

He even had a page showing hate mail he got. If you tried to buy something, you always got an "out of order" page.

[@justacutepieceofshit]

Dude I remember that, holy shit

[@scottmorrison3929]

"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Underrated reference.

[@emv8869]

The thumbnail on this video shows one of those virtual doll dress up sites and I would totally go on there everyday back in 2004

[@kiiboreviewsngameplay3756]

1:56 absolutely love the Hitchhiker's guide the Galaxy reference!

[@sunla]

Has anyone here played Hypnospace Outlaw? It's such a great way to experience old internet. I loved it so much, I bought it twice! (PC and Nintendo Switch)

[@harris2116]

Fun fact in school I had a class on coding websites and lingscars was actually on of the sites they showed us on how not to make a website

[@ShaneT5S]

In some ways I miss Internet 1.0. All those weird terrible awful graphics with extremely vibrant colours made me smile looking back at them

[@BlizzardWizzard]

When I was a child, I would look to my adulthood as an untapped well of potential, and here I am, hugging a toilet while some dude relives his hamster dance memories

[@MalloryKnox.]

10:47 I recognised a few of these too. Pointerpointer was so funny, I spent wayyyy to long on there. I would keep trying to get the same image to appear twice in a row, like a game.

[@Мот-з9л]

"The time when you could watch movies without needing internet connection." Me, looking at the terrabyte of pirated movies and shows on my external hard-drive: yeah, right.