[sublinear]

Is this a paid post or something? Weird and avant-garde compared to what? The reason most of this crap never got archived is because it was the purest of crap, not the death of flash or other silly excuses.

Similarly nobody cares about the vast majority of YTMND or Vine.

There absolutely was a certain type of "nerd" into the junk on Newgrounds and they were probably the same loud minority who flocked to Facebook until they realized how crappy that was too. Nobody really wants to remember the internet between 2000 and 2015. Nobody likes most media from that era in general.

[Apocryphon]

> Nobody really wants to remember the internet between 2000 and 2015.

Literally all of HN wants that era of pre-FANG commodification of the internet to come back. Before so much of the web was siloed off into corporate gated communities and the death of personal websites, blogs, BBS forums, and the like.

[javier2]

I think Salad Fingers is very good, but surrealism was not invented in 2003. Surely there must have been earlier animated films with surreal themes. It could have a place as early internet art, and I don't understand how novel it really is, but I am not a art historian either.

On the contrary, I think many of us miss a bit of the internet that was before 2015. Todays walled gardens of stalker ad agencies and mega corps feels very different to the internet I knew.

[thequadehunter]

"Nobody plays those terrible NES games anymore, so who cares?"

[FranzFerdiNaN]

2000s internet was so much better than the current, social media dominated, shit where every page looks the same.