Used to be really common

[nat965]

What used to be really common on the Internet or computers that isn't anymore?

Quite a few come to mind but I'll only mention 1 to get the ball rolling
Those funny, interesting mouse icons.

[scottish]

Rick rolling.

[peteyt]

Chat rooms

[FlyingJesus]

GeoCities/Tripod sites with flamingtext images +*+*+*+ beautiful

[LUCPIX]

GeoCities/Tripod sites with flamingtext images +*+*+*+ beautiful

99.99% of the useful and cool sites I had been looking for were powered by these 2 sources and, without the help from an archive.org , 99.99% of them are deeeeeead :(


Hmmm, frequent and common use of "Click here to receive daily updates from our website via e-mail"? Most of the differences I know are primarily visual rather than functional, besides that that old websites were more about texts, content and GIFs and less about Flash Player, advanced HTML tricks and user-friendly (aka idiot-proof) design!

[Snex]

MySpace
Bebo
MSN Messenger
AIM
AOL
Dial Up
Forums
Top Sites
Windows Media Player
Quick Time
Internet Explorer
Website Elements

Tables
Gradients (They're coming back though).
Popup / Annoying Adverts
Scrolling Text
Verdana + Tahoma Fonts
Massive Amounts of Text


Java on the Web (Dead Now)
Flash Websites
Annoying Songs / Videos (Hampster Dance, Crazy Frog, Badger Badger etc.)
Tag X In and Do (Cinnamon, Dirty Pint, Bucket Challenge etc.)
User Bars - These (http://orig11.deviantart.net/4390/f/2008/114/1/3/the_alliance_forum_userbars_by_pr3z1oso.jpg)
Pinball 3D (Windows XP)
Online Radio Stations


There's a few that's on the top of my head atm.

[Zak]

Pop ups.

[Brad]

MySpace
Bebo
MSN Messenger
AIM
AOL
Dial Up
Forums
Top Sites
Windows Media Player
Quick Time
Internet Explorer
Website Elements

Tables
Gradients (They're coming back though).
Popup / Annoying Adverts
Scrolling Text
Verdana + Tahoma Fonts
Massive Amounts of Text


Java on the Web (Dead Now)
Flash Websites
Annoying Songs / Videos (Hampster Dance, Crazy Frog, Badger Badger etc.)
Tag X In and Do (Cinnamon, Dirty Pint, Bucket Challenge etc.)
User Bars - These (http://orig11.deviantart.net/4390/f/2008/114/1/3/the_alliance_forum_userbars_by_pr3z1oso.jpg)
Pinball 3D (Windows XP)
Online Radio Stations


There's a few that's on the top of my head atm.

Omg
Some of these like the 3D pinball I miss so much. Haha. I used to play that for ages

[Gina]

glitterfy x wat a banger of a site

[RuthlessSlayer-]

BBM only because thats what i used to use back in the day haha

[Mikey]

Actually playing games online. I loved pinball and I'm glad pop ups aren't as bad as they were when I started using the internet haha.