Habbo Hotel? I lost my virginity to a girl I met on there 
(funnily enough we are now actually friends on Facebook.)
Edit: Does actually still exist. You can get it as an app for your phone
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Oh my gosh. Winamp 
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Winamp inspired my brain to remember this
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WinAmp…it really whips the llama’s ass
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Was useful as a no fuss, easy to use tracking app. Actually calculated useful stats too!
Feeds limit ad exposure for sites so I don’t imagine it was just Google killing it. Social sites especially wanted full control of what you saw. Wasn’t a fan of any of the online offerings at the time so I now use FeedDemon.
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I kinda miss both Encarta & Visual Basic 6, the latter being slowly killed via .NET.
G+
The death of Reader was a critical blow to the blogosphere. I went from being on top of my curated feeds to totally out of the loop, and by the time Feedly came along to replace Reader, it was too late. I was out of the habit.
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And just what is it that chap says when you loaded Winamp? 
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I used to use Google Reader then I moved to Feedly and that is the same thing, same layout etc and I like it still use it…
Yahoo! Messenger coz the chatrooms were just mental
MSN Messenger
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I liked a lot of the old telnet chat rooms. Tigernet and Mars Base Alpha were two of the more popular ones. Remember going to Prestatyn to ‘eyeball’ with some people from Tigernet. An experience never to forget!
Winamp is still going! I downloaded it again last year and it’s my default music player on the laptop. It still whips it! 
Habbo hotel - those were the days… when I first went on there in around 2000 I was about 15/m/uk and most of the people were around 15 as well. It was cool because it felt so realistic compared to plain text chat rooms and you could have a convo with all sorts of people (including girls!) from all over the world. It was fun and actually helped me in real life as I learned to just go up and chat to random people in real life as you do in habbo hotel. I went back a few years later as an 18/m/uk to check out if my old room was still there. It was, but suddenly everyone on there was like 10 or 11 and it was all strange and not like I remembered - with habbo’s asking if you’ll be their daddy and if you want to trade furniture. 
That was a really creepy experience and I never went back there 
I remember reading in the news a few years later about it being outed as a haven for paedophiles and the company got slaughtered in the press around the world for not having any safeguards. I assumed they had shut down as a result but clearly not.
Microsoft money was amazing. It had my whole life’s projected net worth charted out for me and allowed me to really scrutinise my spending and maximise my savings. As a teenager with a job and no costs I could easily save £500 a month and the projections said I’d be a millionaire by 30. But then that software vanished and growing up happened. I’ve never really had any money since that thing disappeared, and I still don’t understand why it was scrapped and why nothing replaced it. Even 15 years later the best financial tracker tools like yolt or ynab are all pretty lame in comparison. MS Money was the best!
Napster of course was legendary. In a world before YouTube etc - where you had to go to a shop and pay £10 to listen to some new songs, it was completely mind blowing to just go and download songs. It used to take an absolute lifetime to download a song but when it completed it felt like you’d turned lead into gold. That felt like how the Internet was meant to be but then capitalism got its grubby hands on it and made streaming much harder and doing anything impossible without trading your data for it or being swamped with ads and viruses. The thought of a service like Spotify or Netflix charging a hefty monthly fee to download songs or videos would have been unthinkable to me 18 or 19 years ago. Everything was meant to be free and it was, and that was awesome!
Yahoo! Games and Yahoo! Chat were amazing places to hang out. It was a time before any of the tech co’s had thought too deeply about monetising people’s data or really targeting ads. There was just a banner advert at the bottom and you just didn’t click on it… I made real life friends on Yahoo Chat and their games page was so much fun. As an awkward teenager it was even cooler as you could anonymously swear at random people and cheat by requesting a cancellation of the game as they were about to win 
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Adobe Fireworks. Despite trying at least a dozen graphics programs, I have yet to find anything that can do everything Fireworks can in such an easy to use interface. Going to have to find something else sooner rather than later though, Fireworks was never updated for 64-bit, so will be killed by macOS when they disable 32-bit support, likely in the next major version.
Any web developers, what software do you use for design and graphics?
Sketch?
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Canva for graphics. Because I’m lazy and have no time these days 
I’ve tried Sketch before for mobile app design, which it was great at. Not sure about how good it is at websites though (haven’t tried yet). My main complaints with Sketch is its lack of a Windows version, and that it only offers a yearly subscription option, would prefer to pay a one-time fee, even if that means it only gets updates for a limited time.
Looks decent for creating marketing material. Will definitely have a play with it at some point, thanks!
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No problem at all. Glad to help 
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Dreamweaver sadly still exists!
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