TEN RETRO WEBSITES THAT RAISED ME ♡
WHEN DID THE INTERNET STOP BEING FUN? When was the last time we sat at our computers and actually, like, hung out ? You know… did fun stuff? Took a personality quiz, played a Flash game (RIP), adopted a totally adorable yet equally terrifying virtual pet, or pirated that Avril Lavigne CD on LimeWire that nearly destroyed the family computer (sorry, Mom and Dad). These days, our computers are mostly for checking emails, online shopping, binging Gilmore Girls on Netflix for the millionth time, listening to a YouTube video essay about the rise and fall of Quiznos (or whatever) as background noise while folding laundry, and endlessly scrolling through social media . The web has gone from a chaotic, maximalist, pop-up playground to… kind of boring, actually. Well, maybe not boring… but visiting a website on a computer just doesn't hit like it used to. Back in my day (okay, ew, never let me say that again), there was a cool website for every niche under the sun. And as a kid of the 20...