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I found some classic video game websites that are still up (tuckerm.us)

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The Sonic Adventure site is my favorite, especially the blog.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I love that. I figure this is because a site like that one is "a bunch of files in a folder on a server somewhere, including the videos," whereas nowadays the videos would be on a separate CDN or media host, which is why those tend to break separately.