The original US Cartoon Network website, cartoonnetwork.com, now redirects to MAX.
As my about states, my earliest memories of exploring the CN website were from this era:
I would play the Flash and Shockwave games constantly over the years, play trial/full versions of Power Play Games, etc. I never played Cartoon Orbit as I was too young, but I got to experience the rest. I was there when CN accounts and games like TKO became a thing. I went to the international sites as well, and it always felt special to discover things that weren't on the US site. The list goes on. If this blog is any indication, I have a fondness for this website and it among other sites had an impact on me as a child.
Believe it or not, there was the odd old page or PDF that remained on the site if you stumbled across it on Google. The early 2010s Codename: KND character page was an example. I have no idea when it was (accidentally, I'm sure) made accessible again after years of it redirecting elsewhere, but it happened at some point before or during 2022. The Discovery merger brought the end of the server(s) that the images (and seemingly every other old file) were hosted on. I saw the page when it was only missing one image, then I checked two weeks later and every single image was gone. The text and boxes remained, and I even last visited the page in June of this year. Kind of sums up how harrowing the last few years have been.
This blog turns four years old next month, and the website it is majorly dedicated to— despite me covering 90s-2000s content— is gone. No fossils left, just a redirect.
CartoonNetwork.com, I had not visited you consistently in several years. You died with mere crumbs of what was there when I was a kid, or even a younger adult, and very little in general. Just videos and links to a few apps. I'm sorry the deaths of Shockwave and Flash, the gradual elimination of websites for children, the rise of streaming, sites having to fit a mobile mold, and various corporate decisions did this to you. And I'm sorry for anyone who recently lost their job, or anything they had any part of.
I love you CartoonNetwork.com, and thank you to anyone who had a hand in creating anything for the website for 20+ years.












