Pouët.net
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- Type
- Website
- Released
- 2000
- Website
- pouet.net
The demoscene's noticeboard — the database where every prod gets comments, thumbs and endless thread warfare.
Since it launched in 2000, Pouët.net has been the demoscene's shared catalogue. Nearly every demo, intro and 4k ever released is listed with a download link, a screenshot and — crucially — a comment thread. Visitors leave a "thumb up", a "thumb down" or the infamous pig, and the top lists decide what the scene remembers.
The site inherited BBS culture's tone wholesale: acid comments, in-jokes and inflamed threads over whether an effect was "faked". It fills the role the disk magazines once did — news, gossip and rankings — but with a permanent database underneath. To an outsider the interface is baffling; to the scene it is home.