If you want to revisit some of that good ol’ nostalgia from the early 2000s, read on for a trip down (a cyber) memory lane. With a little bit of research, however, I found that some of the best sites from when I was a kid are still around. As a farewell salute, the site’s programmers finally let those darn penguins flip the iceberg.Įven though it’s common knowledge that websites come and go, you can’t help but feel wistful about your childhood. ![]() More recently, Club Penguin shut down in March 2017, much to the dismay of past (and active!) users. I, for one, am still rather bitter about Virtual Magic Kingdom’s shutdown in 2008 (Disney claimed VMK was never meant to be permanent, but sure, go ahead and rip my preteen heart out). As a trailblazing generation, kids living in the early 2000s used the world wide web to have fun (which may have led to the social media savvy of most millennials today).Īs time has passed, however, millennials have had to part ways with some of their beloved childhood websites. During our elementary years, we came across an expansive array of sites to peruse, whether they were in computer class-where, let’s be honest, all we learned was how to use PowerPoint and make high scores on Brain Pop games-or at home on the family computer. When you weren’t playing outside with your Skip-It or watching “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” you were experiencing the best of pixelated online gaming.Īs millennials, we make up the generation that grew up with technology for the first time, playing games from Mario to Runescape and watching our gadgets advance along with our years. You know you’re a late –nineties kid when you remember spending your days wasting away in front of clunky Compaq computers, clicking away at the screen.
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