Today I'm gonna show you a thing that's been on my desktop for over a year at this point.
I was always interested in NG history cause you know, it's filled with a lot, and I mean A LOT of great animations that look good even now. And I thought that nothing would show the evolution of Newgrounds's content better than the "Best of All Time" list. After all, it always shows the submissions people thought were the best at that time, so it would be cool to see what was considered "the best" back in those days. The file contains the best animations from a certain date, so you can always watch the #1 and maybe compare them with each other! (or just go on a nostalgia trip ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
All the info was taken from Wayback Machine, big thanks to them. (btw imagine my face when I heard somebody was attacking the website earlier this year, that would SUCK)
Some other info you might wanna know before you download the file:
- So far I finished the timeline up to 2008. I don't know when I'll update the file to newer years since I usually come back to this once a month, do like 1-2 years and abandon it on my desktop for another month. Maybe some of you guys will be more passionate than me, idk
- There's a big gap in dates sometimes. Two reasons for that: neither Wayback Machine just doesn't have saved pages for dates or the submission was so dominant it stayed #1 for multiple days.
- Some dates are written with the exact date the page was archived (#1 can change multiple times per day)
- Some submissions are NOT available on Newgrounds anymore. There's links leading to other sites with the same content.
- "Honorable mentions" was a last minute feature :)