# Websites that have gone down the drain **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922 "2003-07-08T02:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/21 "2003-07-08T19:35:55Z")
Here’s an oldschool one: Mirsky’s Worst of the Web. I was really hurt back in '95 or so when it closed down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/22 "2003-07-08T19:59:08Z")
[My Boot](http://www.myboot.com) and the Futon story was great, and I still love his writing – but then Craig stopped posting. He came back this year, and opened a forum, but hasn’t been updating very often. Basically the same thing with [The World’s Worst Farmer](http://www.worldsworstfarmer.com). Not enough updates, content getting weak. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/23 "2003-07-08T20:57:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > Angst Technology (a webcomic I used to read) and Sluggy Freelance (ditto) were good for a while, but the creator either stopped posting as much or got caught up in intriciate, nonsensical storylines, or both. Aren’t intricate, nonsensical storylines a stock-in-trade for **Sluggy?** You may want to check back on it now, BTW; the last massively-convoluted storyline is over, and I think Pete Abrams is getting back to the normal kind of intricate nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/24 "2003-07-08T21:08:35Z")
Anyone remember [spewww.com](http://spewww.com)? That died about 6 years ago after briefly turning into a porn site. But while it lasted, it was extremely funny. Stopped for a different reason is [http://www.seethru.co.uk/](http://www.seethru.co.uk/) (non-porn, don’t worry) is a very diverting site/archive that accompanied the BBC dotcom drama series “Attachments”, but it’s no longer updated. It grew as the series went on, and as they added stuff during the show, it appeared on the site. The site’s totally worthless content inadvertantly illustrated why the dotcom enterprise failed. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/25 "2003-07-08T23:13:33Z")
In the early days one of my favorites was ‘Minsky’s Worst of the Web’; links to the very worst web pages around. Once the web got going, though, it just got to be too much to handle (I guess). Don’t know when it disappeared. Bob ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/26 "2003-07-09T00:02:03Z")
Ah, other people have already mentioned [www.suck.com](http://www.suck.com) and [www.brunching.com](http://www.brunching.com) **alice\_in\_wonderland** , if you miss Polly, you know [she has a blog now](http://www.tinylittlepenis.com/) With a really great URL. heheheh. The site I will contribute is [www.spinnwebe.com](http://www.spinnwebe.com) It’s still up, and it’s… nice… that IADL is back up, but it just hasn’t been the same since they took down the Dysfunctional Family Circus. (yes, I know there’s an underground version of the DFC out there. That’s not the same, either.) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/27 "2003-07-09T03:49:33Z")
The adcritic was the reason I switched from a dial-up service to cable modem. When he couldn’t keep it going, some corp. bought it and instituted pay-to-play. I would have paid him, but not them. I miss being able to download tv commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/28 "2003-07-09T04:17:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aaslatten \* > \*\*the onion has been bad for at least a year \*\* Wait, wait. What? It has? I still find it hilarious on a weekly basis. On the other hand, I’m easily amused. ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/29 "2003-07-09T06:16:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xash \* > \*\*… > > [http://www.formula1.com](http://www.formula1.com) sucks ever since it’s been bought over and made the official F1 site. \*\* HEAR! HEAR! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/30 "2003-07-09T09:17:59Z")
My blog totally sucks these days. The best thing I’ve done lately was a 2,000-word essay comparing baseball to Catholicism. I’d provide a link, but I’m shy. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/31 "2003-07-09T17:53:12Z")
If you’re shy, why do you keep a blog for any of millions of people to read? /never understood blogs/ ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/32 "2003-07-09T20:59:13Z")
Because as I’m going about my life I’m often struck with what I think are compelling observations, realizations, interesting thoughts, or whathaveyou, and for days they’ll be on my mind but there won’t be a good time to bring them up in conversation. So I write them out in long, overly detailed blog entries, and that way the few friends to whom I’ve shown the page can read it and comment on it if they want to. For instance, I wrote one comparing a “South Park” episode to Bertolucci’s first film, _Il Conformista_, a while ago. It’s not something that comes up naturally in conversation, mainly because I know very few people who are familliar with South Park AND Bertolucci. But I thought it was worth bringing up, and this way I didn’t have to start rattling on about it in public; if people want to read it, they can, and if not, fine. Writing it is what’s important to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/33 "2003-07-09T21:27:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Aren’t intricate, nonsensical storylines a stock-in-trade for **Sluggy?** > > You may want to check back on it now, BTW; the last massively-convoluted storyline is over, and I think Pete Abrams is getting back to the normal kind of intricate nonsense. \*\* I stopped reading Sluggy somewhere around that storyline with Russian mafiosos or something - it just became too bogged down or something, and there had been that Torg Potter thingy which had a small potential to begin with and throughoutly wasted that little as well. Anyway, most Sluggy-type storyline webcomics seem to suffer a point where they just become intricate and nonsensical. I guess it’s the effect of gradually loading the storyline full of all conspiracies and magical powers and cute fuzzy side characters and whatnot. The constant crossovers aren’t helping in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/34 "2003-07-09T21:33:19Z")
To get to the topic of the thread, [disinfo.com](http://disinfo.com) used to be chock-full of amusingly weird shit and now mainly seems to have just somewhat-off-the-mainstream reporting. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/35 "2003-07-09T21:37:39Z")
I am severely pissed off that somebody apparently bought [www.amused.com](http://www.amused.com) and made it stupid. I really miss Groupboard and Snee with her brown sugar poptarts. :mad: Does anybody know if Snee still exists somewhere?! ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/36 "2003-07-09T23:14:49Z")
The Dilbert site got totally lame. It went all commercial and discontinued the List of the Day. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/37 "2003-07-10T02:44:25Z")
[www.thespark.com](http://www.thespark.com) used to be great but it hasn’t really had any new stuff in a year… ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/38 "2003-07-10T03:18:39Z")
One word. Napster. ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/39 "2003-07-10T04:19:55Z")
Yeah, man, the Center for the Easily Amused was awesome back in the day. Now it’s long gone and it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922/40 "2003-07-10T04:23:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HerMajestyLorna \* > \*\*Yeah, man, the Center for the Easily Amused was awesome back in the day. Now it’s long gone and it sucks. \*\* Oh god, someone ELSE remembers that?! It ROCKED! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-have-gone-down-the-drain/186922.md?page=3)