Reminds me of <a href="https://floor796.com/" rel="nofollow">https://floor796.com/</a><p>Though floor796 is way more rich and interesting, and still receiving additions every few days.
Went down a rabbithole of old ytmnds I used to keep in the background. It's nuts how ones I thought were super popular at the time had less than 100k total views to this day. Mid-00s internet was still such a small place.
<a href="https://momspaghetti.ytmnd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://momspaghetti.ytmnd.com/</a><p>One of the greatest contributions to humanity was the conversion of ytmnd from flash to html5
I think I remember seeing calls for pieces of this on the SomethingAwful forums back in the day, it was a collaborative art piece. There was a template with specific frames where the ball enters and leaves each square and it was up to forum members to fill in the rest and then it was all stitched together.
The only one that matters. The original that started it all:<p><a href="https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/</a><p>And my favorite, which was probably the most popular one of all time:<p><a href="https://animated.ytmnd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://animated.ytmnd.com/</a>
This started out on the Something Awful forums back in the early 2000s. They made a few more after this one was such a hit. I joined in one year, probably at about age 18, using a bootleg copy of Photoshop that I got at a LAN party. My contribution is floating around somewhere.
Congrats people we did it <a href="https://ytmnd.com/sites/top_viewed/today" rel="nofollow">https://ytmnd.com/sites/top_viewed/today</a>
I was responsible for drawing 1/25th of this gif back in the day. There was actually way more tiles created but this is one version that went viral. Crazy to see it still pop up like this every couple of years.
I thought YTMND was shutting down?<p>Also still my favorite:<p><a href="https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/</a>
Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings.<p>I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another.<p>I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager.<p>But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.<p>Maybe its basic phenomenology, but I wish I could see these websites as I once did, funny and edgy. Today I feel like there was something a bit darker that corrupted many users.