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Looks like mid-00s meme factory YTMND has shut down for good :(

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exodus

exodus

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Oct 25, 2017
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Wood Man said:
Ah man. RIP. You brought me so many laughs. I don't think memes would be the same today without YTMND.

A tribute to my all time favorite:

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Rip macaron chacaron
 
doof_warrior

doof_warrior

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Oct 25, 2017
3,427
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Jordan117 said:
Plot twist: I happened upon Max Goldberg's Reddit account last night, and apparently the shutdown was entirely unplanned. As in, he wasn't even aware it was offline until somebody sent him a news article about it several days afterward. He also PM'd me his thinking when asked:

It was unintentional but also maybe it's just time. I haven't worked on it seriously in almost a decade which left it vulnerable. I sort of want to make it a read-only archive and update it to not rely on flash. I haven't made any decisions what to do yet though.​
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FWIW, I suggested it might be better to keep it offline and rely on the various archives to preserve it, because at this point the only real "community" still active there were alt-right edgelords and mentally unstable people unhealthily obsessed with obscure internal drama.

Also, he's since updated the site with this message:
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Shaymin

Shaymin

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Oct 25, 2017
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lol, internet
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-sites-database-has-accidentally-been-deleted

In an attempt to clear up the confusion, Motherboard got in touch with Max Goldberg, the site's creator and caretaker for almost 20 years, on a Discord chatroom that he set up to talk to a very confused community about the site. Goldberg said he doesn't know if YTMND is coming back, and what shape it'll be in if it does.
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"Still trying to determine that, but it appears the current database has been completely wiped," he said. "The hardware is roughly eight years old I believe."
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The last backup is five years old apparently.
 
TradedHats

TradedHats

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Mar 8, 2018
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Just logged in and still have my favorites list. Time to go down memory lane.

ps3babytruth.ytmnd.com

PS3 Baby Sees The Truth

just for the record, i am NOT nor have i ever been a fanboy of anything, in fact i havent played my gamecube (out of my ps2, Gcube and xbox) for over a year now. the only reason i support the Wii more then ps3 is that $599 US dollars is just ridicules.
ps3babytruth.ytmnd.com ps3babytruth.ytmnd.com

allwewantis.ytmnd.com

all we ask for is

satisfaction i fixed the sync sort of :)
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Lol at this one. Created 7 days after the PS3 launch:

Leo wants a PS3

ps3riot.ytmnd.com ps3riot.ytmnd.com
 
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cakely

cakely

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Oct 27, 2017
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True story: I worked that the company that hosted YTMND in 2006. They had a server (and by that I mean a literal, physical box on a rack) at one of our datacenter sites.

I'm guessing this most recent move put the site in a VM in the cloud somewhere.
 
Zed

Zed

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Oct 28, 2017
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Old school Internet sites love April Fools. I remember Homestar Runner broke a 4 year hiatus with April Fools.
 
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