Throughout the years, I have been an avid fan of Newgrounds as far back as the fateful day back in 1995.
Hell, back then when the website was devoted to killing pop-icons & other celebrities, alot of the early ones were done in HTML!

It was set up like you had to click the image for it to progress.
Practically all it was was links and images, until Tom had gotten ahold of flash.

And well, the rest is history.
When the portal opened up to the public, is when the site really began to develop what I still consider the golden years.

Everyone had to provide their own graphics as well as scrounge up the few sources everyone had at the time.
And yet, one thing they all had in common was that dark gritty nature, as well as original moused in graphics.

Now in comparison, the average movie back then was roughly 300-500 kb and that took a while to load.
As nowdays its roughly 5 mb minimum, with daily features capping as much as 15 megabytes every single day.

Artistically, the movies have gotten better.
Even though they are done with so many programs I don't even consider them to be 'flash' movies/games any longer.

Adobe Photoshop this, After Effects CS-whatever that..
Heres a handful of some of the first portal entries I have ever seen back then...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
42
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
641
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
154
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
2463
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
1051
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
3571
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
391

And so on and so forth..

Overall I would say the one that stuck with me the most was, Scorpio Group.
As at the time I hadn't quite seen anything like it, as the characters in it were not only original, but they were memorable.

Sure they had plenty of shit back then, but once in a while, it was actually worth seeing.
Nowdays there are so many things , alot of which are probaly worth seeing, but I just don't care anymore.

Like I might look if its on the frontpage and if the name/thumbnail looks interesting enough , but I rarely search up for a movie.

Things just haven't been the same.
Maybe someday i'll resume this rant.