Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by boring_twenties » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:06 PM UTC

wiretap.spies.com (originally a Gopher site, but eventually had an http version)

gatekeeper.dec.com ... an FTP site, but hey, you did say early days!

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by hanoz » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:07 PM UTC

Not a website, but I miss a weekly email newsletter called NTK (Need to Know). I'm not sure how many HN readers were NTK readers, but I bet all NTK readers are now HN readers.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by jdkee » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:07 PM UTC

Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by girmad » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC

I miss the word game Acrophobia (I think it was an IRC game originally, but there was a good webapp version where I wasted more time than I'd like to admit)