# The internet is closing, what 3 websites do you keep?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268 "2009-10-01T20:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/1 "2009-10-01T20:10:57Z")
President Obama says there is too much internet at everyone’s fingertips. Therefore everyone is going to have their computers hardwired for only THREE websites. Since everyone needs an E-mail address this doesn’t count. So don’t worry, you don’t have to try to make Gmail an option because that’s an automatic.
So I ask thee dopers. You have three websites to visit and those three only, what do you choose?
My three would be:
ESPN: I am a sports nut and frequent this website a lot.
[Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com): I frigging love this website. If I only have three sites, I’m gonna need something to make me laugh.
Straight Dope: I love this website, and I would miss the message boards terribly if I couldn’t get on it.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/2 "2009-10-01T20:27:48Z")
Amazon - still can buy anything there is to buy.
Facebook - still can communicate with everyone on a mass scale.
…?
Keeping SDMB would be cool but if it’s only 1 of 3 then all the freaks and weirdos that ignore us now will come here.
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### Author:  [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/3 "2009-10-01T20:29:21Z")
X-Tube: 'Cause daddy needs his porn.
The Straight Dope: Mainly just for the message board(s). Where else can you skip from a discussion of left-vs-right politics to a discussion of fisting in the same place?
[jettbailey.com](http://jettbailey.com): This guy is some 'kinda creative genius! Art+Fish…who’da thunk it?!
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/4 "2009-10-01T20:34:02Z")
Wikipedia
Flickr
SDMB
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### Author:  [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/5 "2009-10-01T20:34:42Z")
Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg
Craigs List
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/6 "2009-10-01T20:39:21Z")
Amazon
Wikipedia
Dell, because I’m going to have to buy a shitload more computers!
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/7 "2009-10-01T21:00:45Z")
Facebook, Sparkpeople, and Drudge. Thank Og this would never happen. (What happens if you try to click on a link to another website, a la Drudge?)
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/8 "2009-10-01T21:04:53Z")
[archive.org](http://archive.org)
> **[Project Gutenberg](https://gutenberg.org)**
>
> Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
Whatever site is organizing the the list of first against the wall.
Most sites I like would be worthless without the links to other sites.
I’m not wasting one on Microsoft. They’ll have to find some other way to update.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/9 "2009-10-01T21:08:47Z")
The Dope
IMDb
eBay
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/10 "2009-10-01T21:10:39Z")
SDMB - this is the site I spend 90% of my internet time on.
my bank - I’m not sure how I would take care of my finances without my on-line banking heck I don’t even get most of my bills any more they go straight to the bank.
X-tube - the only reason the internet was invented was porn I can’t imagine not being able to look at a variety of different porn 24 hrs a day.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/11 "2009-10-01T21:30:09Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#):
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> my bank - I’m not sure how I would take care of my finances without my on-line banking heck I don’t even get most of my bills any more they go straight to the bank.
This is a gooooood one!
I never thought of that. I as well would be totally lost.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/12 "2009-10-01T21:31:38Z")
Erm, Google.
That means I get everything ‘on’ google right?
1. Wiki.
2. Amazon.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/13 "2009-10-01T21:42:32Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
>
> Erm, Google.
> That means I get everything ‘on’ google right?
404 page load error on most links.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/14 "2009-10-01T21:45:57Z")
Amazon
SDMB
A certain hentai-oriented site.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/15 "2009-10-01T21:56:17Z")
SDMB
LandsEnd
Amazon
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/16 "2009-10-01T21:58:00Z")
SDMB
Goodreads
Google Maps
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/17 "2009-10-01T22:05:13Z")
1. [wikipedia.org](http://wikipedia.org) - too useful to lose
2. [b3ta.com](http://b3ta.com) - when I need a laugh or want to show my own crappy stuff
3. either straightdope or youtube
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/18 "2009-10-01T22:06:43Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#):
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> X-tube - the only reason the internet was invented was porn I can’t imagine not being able to look at a variety of different porn 24 hrs a day.
**Now wait a damn minute!** does this mean we don’t get usenet either??!!
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/19 "2009-10-01T22:32:07Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#):
>
> 1. [wikipedia.org](http://wikipedia.org) - too useful to lose
> 2. [b3ta.com](http://b3ta.com) - when I need a laugh or want to show my own crappy stuff
> 3. either straightdope or **youtube**
What, the shaytard website?
(Ok, I like him and his adorable family, but he’s the exception to the rule that youtube is a bit shit these days)
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-is-closing-what-3-websites-do-you-keep/512268/20 "2009-10-01T22:42:44Z")
Youtube - I watch so much TV and get so much music
Straight Dope - natch
TV Tropes - I can get lost in here for days.
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