Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I Miss the Old Internet…”.
Uh next question here is from Tristan what sites or services do you miss from years past that aren’t around anymore like Vine with Twitter, oh man, I talked about this in my in my metaverse quest pro video, The Palace. I actually had the founder of the palace reach out on Twitter. Uh confirmed that there is no VR Palace coming, but the palace was basically have a hotel before Habbo Hotel was a thing, it’s kind of like a graphical uh, IRC graphical chat room and it had a lot of the same features that like metaverse, VR chat, style Thing might have where you can only talk to people who are near you, so you could whisper to each other. You could broadcast to a small group around you, so you would actually like move around in rooms to be near people who are talking about the same things you might want to talk about uh but yeah.
I spent a ton of my ton of my youth on the palace. Msn Messenger is another huge one. I don’t know what it was I I would use it again today. It’S just it. It’S so much better than a lot of the chat apps that we have now, and it was so far ahead of its time, like the ability to even the ability to uh turn on a webcam like have video in your chat was like really cool at the Time there might have been something that did it first, but MSN did it pretty well um, there’s a super man.
When you used to be able to have like custom animated um, I guess they would be emoticons, not emojis uh, which ones which I can never remember. But the point is: there’s this super cool one that was like a little a little smiley face and an unsuspecting pink smiley face and he comes up and he goes like this and then gives it a hug and then there’s like a little heart like there was Just like really fun ways to express yourself that you know I you know there are really fun ways to express yourselves now, like you, couldn’t send each other gifs back in the day uh. But maybe you could actually trying to remember uh, but it had fun ways to express yourself that I feel like if you brought them back. Um might seem Innovative and seem novel today yeah, I miss nudging people just shaking that window violently yeah.
Okay, are you still there and just abusing that, whenever possible, yeah? Oh, you could and then they turned on the ability to disable to disable nudges like it just man. It was so feature complete. The ability to go offline mode offline to certain people was amazing, like man yeah, I remember when a peer offline was such such an innovation.
Um, okay, emoticons, are made of letters or symbols and Moji are the ones that are little pictures, but this is animated. Animated emojis, so whatever whatever that means it’s like pre-discord, you could like upload your own uh yeah, that was cool yeah. It was awesome man.
I would use the crap out of just them, bringing back MSN Messenger. My choice with no further explanation is just Toontown. Bring back Toontown Toontown the like Disney MMO. Isn’T that special thing? Well, there was, I think they got cease and desist because they like it was. I can’t remember where they called it, but it was like a revamped one. No Toontown Rewritten hold on a second. Oh looks like you’re new here uh. I want to leave what a choice I want to leave. Toontown is completely free, oh wow, so they actually they didn’t get a season. That’S amazing! Wait! Oh, did you click? I want to leave what yeah it sounds. Good Disney’s Toontown online created using publicly available downloads and information, but you understand it is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or a Disney Interactive Group. Sure, okay, Toontown Rewritten wow.
Here it is that’s amazing. I remember throwing pies at people uh like it was a great game. Oh man, I never just walking around uh, there’s a really cool tank game that I’ve talked about on wancho before, but no one’s ever been able to tell me what it was called uh, but it was like a top-down tank game that you would spawn in completely.
Like fresh, but it had permadeath, which was really cool, so you would come in and uh. I forget if it was like Mouse based movement, but going from one area to another was like a complete sort of reload. So you would go to the edge of the screen and you would go.
You would appear at the bottom of like the next screen and you would level up by defeating other tanks and get more and more powerful, but death was permanent. So if you were like leveled up to level four or whatever and walked into two level threes that messed you up, that was it. You were dead and I just don’t remember what it was called Tank Trouble. People are saying no, it was not called tank trouble for sure um was it just called tanks? It was just tanks The Flash game hold on.
Are you gon na be able to Google that just Google, I don’t think Flash game um scorched Earth? No! No! It wasn’t Pocket Tanks, no Pocket Tanks is side side view it was top down uh. I don’t see, I don’t think it’s tanks, I don’t. I don’t see anything here. That looks like the right thing.
Oh no thank you online. I would say the closest looking thing that I’ve seen so far. This is apparently called World of Tanks for Sega Genesis, but the tanks looked more cartoony. So that’s that’s. Definitely not. It was not 3D like this uh it was.
It was very, very 2D yeah. I just I’ve, I’ve never been able to find it again. I swear it was pretty big, like lots of people were playing it. So I don’t really. I don’t really know why it’s so hard to find. No, it wasn’t on Wii guys it’s a browser game.
It was on PC yeah, a lot of people. Remember it, but just don’t know the name. Oh really yeah. A lot of people are saying I remember and they’re trying to trying to name it yeah.
I just completely don’t remember what it was called like. It was kind of like this, but that’s definitely not it uh. The tanks were more kind of like I think they were like more rounded looking like kind of cartoony. I know that when you, when you shot when you shot at people, it was like there was like a cool down like it wasn’t just. However fast you could press the space bar or whatever um bubble.
Tanks is that it was bubble, tanks, no, no! No! No! No, no, no, not even yeah, not even close, no wrong answers, except for that one. I want some bolo tank game that doesn’t sound familiar um battle City. No, no! It’S nothing like that. It was 2D.
It was a web game guys it was a web game. Yeah, I don’t know it’s so frustrating like it’s, it seems to have completely disappeared from our Collective Consciousness. Like doesn’t exist anymore battle City.
No, no, it was uh browser based guys browser based. It’S not how many tank games there are. This is wild.
I know humans, love tanks, don’t they uh? No, not this yeah. It’S it’s nothing. You suggested a mini golf game.
I don’t think that’s it yeah. I really don’t think that’s it. Pocket Tanks is super cool. That is another game that I really enjoyed.
Um Yvonne and I used to play that all the time just like having like a do nothing day, um just like playing Pocket Tanks. Uh was it on Penny Arcade. No, I don’t think so. Tank tips. I wouldn’t know, though I didn’t really like, follow them closely or anything uh PS2, that’s not a good start battle tank shocks. You can destroy game.
Well, no, this says PS2 yeah, no guys, so you can destroy again. Oh did I already search for this one? No, not so you can destroy man, we are not gon na We’re. Not gon na find this tank cannons. Are you guys just making things up? Someone said: try Bing, that’s probably the it’s. The Google suppression yeah. You know it’s actually not a terrible idea because sometimes it’s not like suppression, but Google just ends up in like uh hey. This is the most likely thing so uh all right. Let’S go uh top down browser tank game early 2000s.
Okay! There! Let’S give this as much help I’m an old 3D flash game, it’s probably bug, but from what I remember. It’S a 3D tank game where you needed to take consumable hold on a second, where you needed to take consumable. Ammo Shield health speed damage buff and your tank changed color, depending on what you had basic tank Sheldon artillery surgeon, but Direct Hit online game with no Bots at all.
You would rank and, depending on okay, this the game was 100 multiplayer online on a web browser. I think this person is looking for the same game. Oh no, they say it was a realistic.
Looking game, no uh uh, oh no! No, it wasn’t! No! No! It wasn’t three-dimensional, no, never mind they’re, probably looking for a different thing. Oh well, that was worth a shot. Okay, let’s go back to Bing uh, let’s set, let’s see images. What are the odds here? No, I don’t see it. It’S not battle City, no, no! No yeah! I I think I’ve given up. I don’t think I am ever going to find this, which is just wild to me, because I know a lot of other people played it because I would go on anytime night or day and it would be absolutely full of people playing okay. This looks a could be. Is it tank pit? I don’t think so that doesn’t sound familiar in one word, tank pit and the graphics I mean it just looks older kind of scrolly tank pet hold on wait.
Is this it this might be it? Is it tank pit hold on okay? Can I please see a higher? Can I please see a bigger image? Hello? Oh, that’s got an uh imager Gallery yeah hold on. Did we find it? Is it a jackal jackal? Is it a jackal? Oh, I think this is it yes, wow Shadow chat who who got it? A lot of people commented at once. I’M not sure I think the first one I saw was from Washi. This is hilarious yeah.
This is totally it um, an old game back to reality. Wait a second is it back? Can you actually play it? Oh this this site’s going down. Let me tell you: oh don’t be like that. Don’T be like that! Wait! It’S gon na get hugged, don’t be like that. Okay, we’re definitely going purple no way! Oh yeah! This is totally it. This is a double shot.
This is a missile. Oh okay. I guess I’m not impressing you guys if it says right here, but yes, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey buddy, buddy yo, let’s go well. I even got like chat there. The little Auto like to be right there base is here blow up mines. Okay, how long do you have to wait to move it’s like kind of turn based, I think yeah um. Okay am! I am I is this even like accepting? Okay, all you guys, yeah. I think it’s gon na get jumping into tank pit here extend view w hold on what is happening. Game is full people are saying. Oh seriously. Oh that’s hilarious! Okay, let’s, let’s scope scope, all right! Okay! I have no idea. What’S going on? Oh hey this guy! Oh jerk, okay, okay, Mouse movement, waiting for move, yeah, okay, yeah, it’s kind of turn based this is crazy.
We finally found it. Okay, I think I can blow up that mine, oh yeah, oh yeah, see you later mine boom got him tip missile. Shots can fly over rocks.
Okay, I think those yellow things are fuel. Okay, double shot boom. Well, I am so proud of this community.
Let’S go on this. That is beautiful. Did that did that actually missile shot? I can’t tell what’s the yellow one: do the Homing shot you take it hit you again, I think he’s destroying you right now. Yeah Tanki is um. Thank you op, better than me. Okay.
What if we move, can we move? Oh waiting for move? Oh yeah, he missed see you later buddy. Now, let’s move again boom. What are you gon na? Do? Oh yeah got him boom. I have no idea how much health he has so these do some low damage. Uh did I move or not? Oh well waiting for move yeah. I think I’m about to get um Noob pwned here.
Oh come on! It’S not registering my clicks. It’S not registering my clicks come on. Let’S get him get him! Oh, oh! No! This red guy showed up ah foreign, all right. Hey! Thank you so much guys. I’M gon na spend some time reliving my childhood over there right, wow, awesome. .